The first full week of the second open enrollment period of Healthcare.gov, the federal health insurance marketplace, had a "solid" start, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell.
The House Republican Conference will hold a closed meeting Tuesday morning where it might come to a consensus on how to respond to President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration.
President Barack Obama defended his immigration reform executive actions in Chicago on Tuesday while reiterating that his preference is for a "common-sense" law from Congress.
With President Barack Obama's immigration reform executive action, changes were made with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA, a program that deferred undocumented immigrant youths from deportation in order to focus on education or employment opportunities following a 2012 executive action by Obama, will be expanded and handled by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.
The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment last week moved above 300,000 for the first time in nearly three months. The U.S. Labor Department says applications rose 21,000 to 313,000. Applications have been under 300,000 for 10 straight weeks. Unemployment has fallen to 5.8 percent, down from 7.2 percent a year ago and marking a six year low.
Following President Barack Obama’s immigration reform executive action, undocumented immigrants should heed caution when applying for work permits and other documentation to stay in the U.S. as scam artists are set to take advantage of vulnerable victims, state and federal officials are warning.
The Brown family and their representatives held a press conference on Tuesday in Dellwood, a suburb close to Ferguson, criticizing the ruling of the St. Louis County grand jury that decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
Following President Barack Obama's immigration reform executive action, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson published a memorandum for two agencies heavily affected by the executive order: the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Leaders in Washington, D.C. have urged for peace following the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. While some protests escalated into violence, President Barack Obama called for restraint despite the grand jury’s outcome.
Latino Decisions recently conducted a new poll of Latino registered voters around the time of President Barack Obama's announcement of executive action on immigration relief and found staggering support for his plan across political party voters and independents.
Several advocacy groups have praised President Barack Obama after he took to the stage this past week to speak to the American public about the deportation of millions.
Hillary Rodham Clinton stated public support for President Barack Obama's decision to use executive actions to protect roughly 5 million immigrants from deportation.
President Obama's immigration reform plan will ease the deportation for nearly 5 million immigrants who are in the U.S. without legal documents, and Mexico and Central American leaders have weighed in with praise for his reforms.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama imposed sweeping immigration reform during a nationally televised speech, where he announced that he will use his executive power to immunize nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation.
The U.S. government is going to fund the Mexican court and justice system reform by providing $68 million over five years, The Associated Press reported.
