Thousands of immigrants remain in the U.S., including many children Undocumented immigrants, both adults and children, were sent back to Honduras from the U.
On Sunday, Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio declared that President Barack Obama should use the U.S. military to help stop illegal immigration.
According to some immigration experts, as many as 80 percent of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors, mostly from Central America, illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border may be permitted to stay in the U.S.
The president appears to be upping his response to wave of undocumented immigration President Barack Obama is expected to ask Congress on Monday for $2 billion to address the flood of immigrants crossing into the U.
Up to 700 immigrants should arrive at New Mexico facility by end of week As the federal government continues to spar over what to do with the flood of illegal immigrants coming into the country, hundreds of them are going to be housed at a Border Patrol training academy in Artesia, New Mexico, according to a Fox News report.
Secretary Jeh Johnson will travel to Arizona to visit detention facilities that have seen dramatic increases in children immigrants and are currently overfilled.
The recent surge in children crossing the border into the United States illegally has put stress on Rio Grande, Texas, where hundreds are being held in a Border Patrol facility. This stress has already begun to fall on Miami shelters as well.
On Wednesday, immigrants rights groups filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security alleging the sexual and physical abuse of 116 unaccompanied migrant children at the border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.
They say you should walk in a mile in someone's shoes before you judge them. Yesterday, 50 activists hailing from the United States, Central America, Mexico and Canada took this challenge and began the same long journey across the Sonoran Desert that many undocumented immigrants take into Arizona.
Republican John Boehner recently boasted that immigration would be placed on the backburner until 2014, but this didn't stop President Barack Obama from speaking on the issue during a trip to the west coast
The largest Hispanic-owned business in the United States was founded by a working class man who emigrated from Cuba to the United States in 1959. That man, Jorge Mas Canosa, was recruited by an underground utility construction firm in 1969 by the name of Church & Tower, which he would later purchase. Under his guidance, Church & Tower joined forces with a construction company Burnup & Sims in 1994, and together the two companies, now one, assumed the name MasTec.
