Daily features: July 16, 2007

• Daily video

Legal immigrant rally in San Jose, CA on green card processing backlog.

Read our earlier post on this: Daily features: July 11, 2007

• Monday blog round-up

• Jean Pfaelzer, of a George Mason University blog, takes a look at "What's scary about the anti-immigration debate".
• Would you pass the citizenship test?
• Cyberhillbilly's blog posted a video of Geraldo Rivera and Bill O'Reilly discussing immigration last night.
  

• Cartoon of the day

By Eric Allie of PoliticalCartoons.com, July 13, 2007.

In the news today: July 13, 2007

• A Mexican couple gets a one-year deportation reprieve as their 17-month-old daughter undergoes surgery for a rare heart defect reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
• A Pakistani held at an immigration detention center has sued the Immigration Department for placing him in a room with a heroin user as well as for violence and harrassment endured while a detainee, reports ABC News.
• The Los Angeles Times reports that 10 more suspects have been arrested in an "ongoing federal investigation into a scam involving Asians willing to pay thousands of dollars to immigrate to this country by entering into phony marriages with U.S. citizens from Vietnamese and Chinese communities in Southern California."

SoCal hunger strike for legal status

The Los Angeles Times reports that three dozen young people in Southern California are going on a hunger strike until Monday in order to call attention to the need for a legal path to citizenship for illegal immigrant students.

MATT.org spotlight

A daily feature, here we spotlight interesting links on the MATT.org website.

• A video discussing an op/ed column that alleges that children at immigrant detention centers are treated like criminals.
• A thread in the forums discussing death threats against Hispanic politicians in California. (FYI: You can join the forums in a matter of minutes.)
  

Tuesday blog round-up

A daily feature, here we highlight interesting posts, points of view, and links as recorded on the blogosphere.

• Bill Hobbs of the ElephantBiz blog writes that McCain is facing a conservative grassroots backlash due to his support of the immigration reform bill. Be sure to watch the video Hobbs posted.
• Steve Benen of the CrooksandLiars blog writes that the California GOP is fraught with immigration problems from within.
• TravelsofBryan comments at length on his reaction to reading the transcript of Dick Lamm's speech titled "Eight methods for the destruction of the United States". Bryan calls Lamm "too extremist".
  
• BizzyBlog agrees with the Heritage Foundation article that declares the immigration bill a "national security nightmare".
• DailyTitan writes that illegal immigration has led to the closure of 84 California hospitals.
  

Former CA city councilwoman faces deportation

The AP reports that Zoila Meyer, a former California city councilwoman may face deportation for illegally voting in the 2004 election because she did not become a citizen after moving to the country from Cuba as a one-year-old.

Meyer is a legal resident and the mother of four citizens; she has said she did not realize voting was a "deportable offense."