The U.S. federal government defended its immigrant detention practices, despite objections from congressional lawmakers and presidential candidates, as the Department of Homeland Security filed an appeal against the potential release of detained immigrant children.
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders wants private companies out of the business of running prisons and immigration detention centers. The Vermont senator introduced legislation on Thursday to end for-profit prisons.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders received a hearty introduction from civil rights activist and scholar Dr. Cornel West before he addressed a crowd at Benedict College, a historically black school in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defended undocumented immigrants against the ongoing anti-immigrant rhetoric during a Latino roundtable in the battleground state of Iowa.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) scheduled six primary debates, which resulted in uproar from some Democratic presidential candidates. Hillary Clinton, however, finally indicated she may favor more debates.
Hillary Clinton is vowing to take on the entire Republican field, especially party front-runner Donald Trump, on the burning issue of immigration reform.
Bernie Sanders' challenge to Hillary Clinton is picking up steam as the Vermont senator leads the Democratic presidential frontrunner by 9 percentage points in New Hampshire, according to the latest poll to come out of the key early-primary state.
More and more voters in Iowa are starting to question if all the feisty declarations made by many of the 2016 GOP candidates for president on how they would handle the issue of immigration are even possible or needed.
A new poll released by SurveyUSA on Friday indicates that celebrity real estate magnate turned GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton.
Last weekend, Iowa was host to an immigration forum, which invited most presidential candidates. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton could not attend the Iowa forum, but Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, was able to stump for her campaign for several events.
The Democratic and Republican presidential frontrunners will be absent from an Iowa immigration forum this weekend. In fact, all Republican presidential hopefuls were invited but made no confirmations. The only Democrats attending: former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, D-R.I.
Although there's still plenty of time before the first primary vote, Latinos appear to have formed opinions for at least two Republican presidential candidates, namely Donald Trump and Jeb Bush.
When Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was recently asked if he would meet with Black Lives Matter activists, he answered by insisting, "Who knows who that is?"
A recent CNN/ORC poll shows that more than half of all Americans who participated in the survey view presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton as unfavorable.
During an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Sen. Bernie Sanders said he did not send an apology email to Black Lives Matter activists, and instead admitted that he believes an apology is unnecessary.
