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In a speech touting the need for immigration reform, President Obama offered more of the same polarizing rhetoric typical of the contemporary Washington environment.  Ultimately, he blames Republicans if the reform effort fails, even though some Democrats aren't on board. To be fair, Obama did praise President George W. Bush for attempting to tackle immigration reform.  Additionally, he praised the Republicans who formerly backed some sort of reform last year.  But now, the president is shaking

Taking a page from gubernatorial candidate and fellow Republican Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina is considering the political consequences of being silent toward California Hispanics.  In her Senate campaign against Barbara Boxer, Fiorina is strategically courting the Hispanic vote through a specially developed campaign. According to the AP, the primary vehicle for this special campaign is through a website, which she launched at a Hispanic-owned catering company in front of a Hispanic audience.  He

While California faces a harrowing budget crisis, one State senator is set to see that California is the first state to boycott Arizona over its strict immigration law.  In a bill authored by State Sen. Gil Cedillo and endorsed by 40 lawmakers, the legislation would amount to an official state level boycott. Other states have merely passed resolutions against the law, the AP reports, but Cedillo's bill significantly raises the stakes.  According to the AP, Cedillo’s bill includes an anti-Arizon

Over the past week, two Californian politicians whose fates hang uncomfortably in the balance this November have made surprising moves courting the center. On the one hand, Sen. Barbara Boxer, the incumbent currently being challenged by former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, has recently rereleased an ad run by erstwhile GOP Senate candidate Tom Campbell that targets moderate Republicans, seemingly out of desire to woo the GOP. On the other hand, Meg Whitman, the GOP gubernatorial nominee, ha

Last December, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said $352 billion in criminal money was laundered and kept the financial system afloat during the worst of the crisis. "In many instances, the money from drugs was the only liquid investment capital. In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor," he said. Keep that in mind as we explore the increasingly unstable border between the US a

With a whopping victory of sixty-four percent over Steve Poizner’s twenty-seven percent, Meg Whitman is prepared to fight her Democratic opponent Jerry Brown in November for the big cheese.  As one of her strategies, Whitman is ready to round up the Hispanic vote, even with the GOP’s anti-immigrant stigma and her strong, anti-illegal immigration stance during the primary. If anyone is most equipped to garner even a slice of the California Hispanic vote, however, it would be Whitman.  What Whitm

For California cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, opposition to the Arizona immigration law has been strident.  Their reaction is quite typical, considering that their citizens and governments lean heavily Democratic. In cities like Costa Mesa, however, sentiments about the law lie on the opposite side of the fence, as evidenced by declaring their city off-limits to illegals.  Costa Mesa’s response is also quite typical, considering that the city resides in the predominantly conservativ

Reported by the Whittier Daily News, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Lakewood) believes racist forces are the driving support for Arizona’s immigration law.  She slammed the law for being a “concentrated effort” by people who “have ties to white supremacy groups.” Labeling the law as outside mainstream politics, Sanchez compared it to “a Jim Crow system where based on the color of your skin you could be treated as a second-class citizen or harassed based on how you look.”  In a poll by the Daily News,

With the primary just a week away, the Republican gubernatorial dance around illegal immigration seems to have ended for now.  The clock ticking with an intense urgency, contenders on the Republican primary ticket are now succumbing to pressure to explicitly come out against illegal immigration. The main candidate under pressure is Meg Whitman.  While media outlets noted Whitman’s flirtation with amnesty, Politico now reports her rightward shift.  Countering Steve Poizner’s claims to a hawkis

Attempting to snuff out Arizona’s immigration law, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is trying to wield its influence, asserting the problematic law is a violation of the Constitution’s 4th Amendment.  In their legal analysis, the ACLU takes aim at the provision allowing law enforcement to make an arrest without a warrant (if there is “probable cause” to do so). Section E, lines 32-36 of the Arizona bill state the following:     “A law enforcement officer, without a warrant, may arr