'07: immigration stories to make you go huh?

(image by Flipped Out via flickr)

• January 30: Study finds that immigrants' skin tone affects their earnings.
• February 23: A Republican student club at NYU organizes a Find the Illegal Immigrant game.
• June 14: The family of a U.S.-born, developmentally challenged 29-year-old man is suing the U.S. government, alleging that he was wrongfully deported and is now missing somewhere in Tijuana, México. (via The Latin Americanist)
• August 21: Elvira Arellano, the Mexican woman who has lived in a Chicago church for the last year to avoid being deported and separated from her eight-year-old U.S.-born son, was arrested after attending a church meeting in Los Angeles and was later deported to Tijuana. Arellano has become a symbol of the growing sanctuary movement.
• August 28: An estimated 750,000 legal permanent residents may be asked to renew their green cards at a cost of $370 because the cards, issued in the 1980s, have no expiration date. The proposal may prompt some residents to apply for citizenship.
• October 25: The DREAM Act, a bill that would have given the children of illegal immigrants a path to U.S. citizenship based on college enrollment and/or military service, was defeated in a narrow Senate vote.
• December 19: U.S. border patrol agents are firing tear gas into Mexico in response to "an increasing number of attacks" by smugglers throwing rocks, bottles and bricks.