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Police believe two sisters are the brains behind a home invasion in Holt earlier this month. Police say two Lansing men broke into a home in the 1800 block of Schoolcraft, tied-up the homeowner, and stoleget more >> Both face numerous charges for home invasionget more >> A woman who once appeared on the Dr. Phil show for having an overweight child was back in court on Thursday. Amanda Redman faces charges for rolling on top her 27-day-old daughter and suffocating theget more >> Accused of being drunk, rolling onto month-old babyget more >> A Lansing woman will not face charges after stabbing and killing a man last year. Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings says the 52-year-old woman was defending herself when she killed Anthony Woodruffget more >> Says drunk 6 foot 4 man assaulted 5 foot tall woman in her own apartmentget more >> Officials got the call just before 7 P.M. Tuesday night to the Mason State Bank on Cedar Street in Mason, where they say a bank robbery took place. It was reported that the male suspect came in justget more >> A male suspect came into a bank in Mason just before closing with a handgun and demanded money from an employee.get more >> A Lansing man is behind bars today after police say he led them on a short chase in a stolen car on Tuesday. An officer spotted the car on Pleasant Grove Road near Boston Boulevard just before noon. Whenget more >> Suspect behind bars on $10,000 bondget more >> The last time they installed new carpeting in the Michigan House and Senate, John Engler was governor. Years later, under Governor Jennifer Granholm, there was talk of replacing the carpet, but it wasget more >> Carpet, held together with tape, is more than 20 years old.get more >> ![This May 22, 2013 picture shows Jory Green, one of the three men who helped rescue a woman by breaking windows out of a pickup truck that slammed into a home on Jolly near Cedar.]( "This May 22, 2013 picture shows Jory Green, one of the three men who helped rescue a woman by breaking windows out of a pickup truck that slammed into a home on Jolly near Cedar.")
This May 22, 2013 picture shows Jory Green, one of the three men who helped rescue a woman by breaking windows out of a pickup truck that slammed into a home on Jolly near Cedar.LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – A woman who police say lost control of her pickup truck Wednesday and slammed into a home on Jolly Road near Cedar in south Lansing has several people to thank, including threeget more >> Three passersby broke out windows to help rescue the victim pinned insideget more >> Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero has vetoed the entire budget. The Lansing City Council passed the budget on Monday after making several substantial changes to the mayor's budget. The biggest change was howget more >> Ball now returns to City Council's courtget more >> Imagine living next to a fire station. You might feel pretty secure if something were to happen to you or your home. But what if, when your house caught fire, the firefighters next door didn't respondget more >> Manager says residents rejected millage that would keep firefighters closerget more >> A supreme court ruling may pave the way for changing Michigan law for medical marijuana card holders, caught driving under the influence.get more >> A supreme court ruling may pave the way for changing Michigan law for medical marijuana card holders, caught driving under the influence. Tuesday the state's highest court ruled that police must proveget more >>
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) - President Obama has a new proposal for immigration reform: give illegal immigrants temporary legal status if they pass a criminal background check, pay a fine and back taxes and learn English.
For professional writer and mother Allena Tapia of Eaton County, it was all a bit "abstract."
"I was just really wondering where we are going to go. How long is it going to take? How are these bullet points going to, you know, change as we get closer and closer to the real thing?" said Tapia.
Tapia is to mother of 12-year-old Maricela and 9-year-old Benicio. Their father was the first person on that side of the family to be born legally in the U.S. His father was naturalized, but came over illegally.
"We can't make this into an 'us/them' thing. We can't have that 'other' mentality. It's just not going to work. This is our community now. This is everyone. This is the new us," said Tapia.
Tapia knows for this to pass with bipartisan support, there will need to be beefed up border enforcement. But she says that most important is a pathway to citizenship.
"Anything less will put an entire group of our community members, our neighbors, our coworkers, it would put them into a second-class citizenship, a second class group. And that's unacceptable," she says.
