Despite the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency’s new enhanced oversight announcements on its immigrant detention facilities, congressional lawmakers and immigrant rights’ advocates are still voicing their disapproval.
Immigration reforms advocates encountered another setback from the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday. Lawmakers voted to not include an amendment that would allow recipients of President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to enlist in the military.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a "series of actions" to enhance the agency's oversight on family residential facilities, also referred to as detention centers. ICE’s announcement comes as congressional lawmakers called for the end of such detention facilities.
Conservatives whistled and cheered at a recent GOP event when the mother-in-law of Citizens United Foundation President Dave Bossie likened immigrants to "rats and roaches."
More than a hundred Republican lawmakers, including two presidential hopefuls, have signed an amicus brief joining the 26 states and state officials suing the Obama administration over the president's executive orders on immigration.
A coalition of national organizations, ranging from Latino-based, faith-based and law-based groups, have written a letter to President Obama to end immigrant-family detention.
Latinos have said job creation and fixing the economy is among their most important issues that politicians should address during the midterm election, according to Latino Decisions 2014 Election Eve Poll, and U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet has been helping Latinos enter into small business ventures.
Migrants from Latin American has more than often been highlighted as the source for immigration in the U.S., but new research found China has surpassed Mexico as “the top sending county for immigrants to the U.S.”
In an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, Jeb Bush spoke out about his position on immigration reform, saying he believes some in the GOP base "can be persuaded" on the subject.
A North Carolina prosecutor is under fire for refusing to grant temporary visas to undocumented Latino immigrant crime victims if they are victimized by another Latino.
Senate Republicans have been criticized for delaying the confirmation process of a Latino judicial nominee -- Luis Felipe Restrepo -- who was nominated by President Barack Obama last November 2014.
U.S. officials admitted that the federal government "erroneously" issued three-year work permits to about 2,000 people under President Obama's executive immigration action, despite the fact that a court order has delayed the plan's implementation.
Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's comments on immigration executive action have been under the spotlight even by the White House.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called for comprehensive immigration reform and support of President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions, but the former secretary of state also spoke about reforms on immigrant detention and its practices.
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said changes were needed to make immigration enforcement and detention "more humane, more targeted and more effective."
Hillary Clinton proposed "a path to full and equal citizenship" for undocumented immigrants during an appearance at a Las Vegas high school on Tuesday. The Democratic candidate moved to the left of her Republican opponents.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio criticized immigration reform activists on Friday, arguing immigrants do not have "right" to live in the United States. He argued for a different approach, focusing on the reform of the immigration system and securing the border.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Democratic Party presidential candidate, spoke about her stance on immigration reform and support on building from President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions.
