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Today, Nikki Haley, governor of South Carolina (USA), approved the anti-immigrant law SB20, South Carolina joins Arizona, Utah, Georgia and Alabama, which also passed legislation to combat illegal immigration. “South Carolina is a state that follows the laws and welcomes...

Philippine journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who won the Pulitzer Prize of journalism in 2008 as part of the team of the Washington Post reporters who covered the massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007, decided to reveal he has lived for over 18 years in the U.S. as an undocumented...

Last Friday Robert Bentley, governor of Alabama, set one of the most severe immigrant law of the country based on the Arizona model. The bill mandates police to investigate and detain anyone they have “reasonable suspicion” to believe may be undocumented. The bill also forced...

The Embassy of Ecuador in Spain and the Repsol Foundation signed a collaboration agreement to develop a project to face male violence. Strengthen the capacity of Ecuadorian immigrants and their families in Spain to deal with this violence and access to the system of care and...

Los Angeles City Council approved a resolution to support the laws that will allow local governments to participate in a controversial immigrant program. Such program deports the undocumented who have been apprehended. The initiative from Bernard Parks was approved with eleven...

The United States Supreme Court gave its support to a bill in Arizona that sanctions businesses that hire undocumented immigrants, despite the opposition expressed by the government of Barack Obama.  The judicial organism approved the immigration package of bills proposed by...

The elections of the City Hall performed in Spain favored Partido Popular (PP), this worries the immigrant community since this political party has some hard measures regarding the irregular migration. During one of its many speeches, Partido Popular of Catalonia (PPC) had strong...

After the two earthquakes of 4.4 and 5.1 degrees on the Richter scale occurred in Lorca, Spanish southwest, the Consulate of Ecuador in Murcia began to record injured Ecuadorians and those who still do not return to their homes because of the fear of another collapse. Cecilia...

During a speech on the frontier city of El Paso, the United States President Barack Obama appealed to the Congress to study a migratory reform. “This change must be conducted by you to help us achieve an integral reform” was the petition that Obama made during his speech to the...

Ecuadorian immigrants in Spain wanted that the consult included a question that revolves around the issue of immigrants’ sons that are born in the European country and cannot obtain that nationality. Art. 7.2 of the Constitution states that the sons of Ecuadorians born in a...