Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been trying to court the Latino electorate, but a former aide said she needs a specific Latino vice presidential candidate to improve her victory odds.
The wife of potential Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, Columba, joined social media over the weekend. Her arrival on social media allows Bush to open to the public as well as help her husband cater to the Latino vote, being Latina herself.
Following on the footsteps of presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio defended President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The Florida senator was asked on Fox News about the war but he struggled to give a concise answer, ultimately saying, “It was not a mistake.”
U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., faced criticism for doing a stereotypical Native American gesture during a California Democratic Party event and has since apologized.
Jeb Bush reaffirmed his stance against same-sex marriage and religious freedom during a recent interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "The Brody File."
A recent report by the Center for American Progress found Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) overwhelmingly discriminate against LGBT immigrants, despite recent attempts by the Obama administration to improve the treatment of LGBT people in the country and around the world.
While the Obama administration is famously fighting in court to use executive authority to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from being deported, in a lesser-known Texas immigration court case, the Department of Justice's lawyers have perplexingly argued that those same immigrants have no First Amendment rights.
Several Latin American governments have been challenging various approaches to the war on drugs, traditionally pushed by the United States. Countries like Colombia, Chile, and Bolivia are "just saying no" to -- or at least severely modifying -- long held U.S. anti-drug strategies employed in the region like prohibition, the eradication of narcotics-producing crops, and presenting a unified militarized front against growers.
Republican supporters of NSA surveillance are pushing to stop Congress from passing legislation that would curb the U.S. government from prying into the lives of its citizens.
A new report reveals that the backlog in the overburdened federal immigration courts has increased by 68 percent since 2014, bringing the number of pending cases to an all-time high of more than 445,000.
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.
President Barack Obama called on the U.S. government to increase funding for the nation's infrastructure in light of the Amtrak train derailment that killed 8 people earlier this week.
Like big oil and gun lobbying groups, the multi-billion dollar private prison industry is using capital power to gain influence in the political arena by donating large amounts of cash to elected officials.
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.
From the Islamic State militant group, climate change and finances millennials have a varied view on the issues based on polling data from Harvard University Institute of Politics (IOP).
Clinton has just tapped just Xochitl Hinojosa to be the new director of coalitions press, placing her in charge of Hispanic, black, and women-related media.
The U.S. House of Representatives delivered a clear message on Wednesday when it voted overwhelmingly to end the federal government's phone-metadata collection program revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
