Immigrant advocates: Injunction won't stop us

In the wake of a federal injunction temporarily halting President Obama’s recent immigration executive actions on deportation relief for millions of immigrants, advocates say their big concern is not the legal battle ahead but the confusion and inaction that might result among immigrant families even if the Obama administration ultimately prevails.

“We’re telling them to keep gathering documents together and saving money for the fees,” Perla Hinojosa, area coordinator with Mi Familia Vota said Tuesday at a rally in downtown Tampa held with other community groups.

How immigration detention became big business locking up border crossers and asylum seekers

This week, three news outlets – Fusion, the New York Times Magazine, and the Texas Observer – each separately published investigations and in-depth pieces looking inside the booming new for-profit immigration detention industry.

#YoSoyMoises – Where is the outcry over the slaughter of Mexican journalists?

In the last several weeks, since the mass killings of staff members of French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo by Islamic extremists in Paris, millions of people have marched in France and around the world in support of the slain journalists and freedom of the press. The slogan #JeSuisCharlie became a rallying cry at marches and on social media.