Immigrant advocates are urging retailers to pull a Halloween costume depicting a space creature in orange prison garb emblazoned with the words "illegal alien." A group that supports strict immigration laws says such a move impinges on freedom of speech. ...more

October 21, 2009

Confronted by the worst financial crisis in generations, President-elect Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress are preparing to delay some of the promises he made on the campaign trail to avoid political distractions and focus on reversing the economic slide. ...more

January 11, 2009

The U.S. government has arrested and deported record numbers of illegal immigrants - nearly 350,000 - in the past year, authorities say. It has also naturalized a record number of new Americans in the same time, more than 1 million. ...more

November 7, 2008

The wave of immigrants entering the United States slowed dramatically last year as the economy faltered and the government stepped up enforcement of immigration laws. ...more

September 23, 2008

Though she bungled the delivery, U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite was right Monday to call for a federal investigation of how two illegal immigrants with arrest records were free to allegedly carry out a string of violent robberies and rapes. ...more

August 26, 2008

Two supervisors at an Iowa meatpacking plant that was raided by federal immigration agents in May were arrested and charged with encouraging people to live in the United States illegally. ...more

July 5, 2008

I must confess I'm no great fan of George Will's writings, but in his column "Immigration Fuels American Innovation" (Other Views, June 26), I can see his point that the United States should relax its immigration laws to allow more educated people into this country. When Will sounds the clarion call to the world to "send us your Ph. D.s" (but keep your peasants home), it validates and reinforces my opinion. The point is brought into focus when one considers companies like Google, Yahoo and Intel, whose founders or co-founders include a Russian, a Chinese and a Hungarian Jew. ...more

June 28, 2008

Frances Earl has been given the privilege and honor by Hernando Today to appear on the editorial page, and I would expect Ms. Earl to be more informative when writing her columns. ...more

May 28, 2008

The 'Illegal' Problem Regarding "Florida's Hispanic Electorate In Play" (Our Opinion, May 18): ...more

May 24, 2008

The days of Republican politicians taking Florida's Hispanic voters for granted are over. ...more

May 18, 2008