The bill would earmark $3 million to pay for attorneys that would represent the thousands of unaccompanied undocumented children currently in California.
The Department of Homeland Security clarified rumors to Congress regarding the possibility of the Islamic State -- also known as ISIS and ISIL -- crossing the U.S.-Mexican border.
Gene Simmons speaks as an immigrant to other immigrants. Gene Simmons emigrated to the United States from Israel at age 8. The KISS member was on HuffPost Live on Monday, where he talked about what immigrants need to do to find success in the United States.
A new study, conducted by the Institute for Immigration Research at George Mason University, found that the pharmaceutical industry is very dependent on immigrant labor across many job titles.
Lupillo Rivera made headlines when he stood his ground at Murrieta, California, to defend the busloads of undocumented immigrant children that were being transferred to the city.
Maria Hinojosa has covered the story of unaccompanied, undocumented minors since 1999, watching the challenging reality unfold. She told Latin Post the U.S. government has known about these children for over a decade — back when there were as few as 1,000 crossing unaccompanied each year. The numbers "didn't jump up to 90,000 overnight."
The American Immigration Council obtained more than 800 complaints of physical, sexual, and verbal abuse lodged by detainees between January 2009 and January 2012 and found that 97 percent of complaints resulted in no punishment. More than 80 percent of child detainees claimed receiving inadequate food and water and half reported verbal abuse, while one-in-four reported physical abuse.
More than any others, children in immigrant households are the least likely to enroll their children in federal and state preschool programs, due mainly to language and literacy barriers.
The dream of owning an affordable home in the United States is becoming more difficult to achieve for many. Only 26 percent of Colombians own their own home in New York City, far below citywide and national rates of homeownership. Immigrants, in particular, were hit hard by the real estate crisis, and many still feeling the pain of lost homes.
In recent months, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has come under fire for treatment of immigrants it has arrested, and now public officials have raised concerns with agents in Texas who have been transporting detainees and abandoning them in other states.
In the midst of deportations, there's misery, loss and separation; and there are some who've decided to profit off of unsuspecting undocumented immigrants who are attempting to avoid relocation.
In an effort to quell concerns from human and civil rights groups regarding the treatment of immigrants along the U.S. and Mexico border, the U.S. Border Patrol implemented a new set of regulations on the use of deadly to its agents Friday.
New York City residents will receive municipal ID cards, according to a recent statement made by New York City’s mayor Bill de Blasio in his State of the City speech. The IDs will act as a tool to help undocumented New Yorkers who don't want to “live their lives in the shadows.”
St. Louis, Missouri is yet another example of a city that struggles with the “recruitment and retention of human capital.” St. Louis has a small immigrant population compared to other metro areas of similar size, and that absence explains a lack of economic expansion and growth.
House Republicans hinder immigration reform until after 2014. President Obama's plans for some type of immigration reform have already been stalled by Congressional Republicans.
Black's Law dictionary indicates that a lawyer is a person "learned in the law," such as a solicitor, an attorney, a counselor, or an individual who practices law. Lawyering often occurs in courtrooms, during trails, and in front of jurors. Though, the role of lawyer varies across jurisdiction; and, apparently, the ability to become a lawyer depends on legal status in the United States, even if a non-citizen has met every requirement asked of him, including being granted deferred actions regarding his legal status.
President Obama has a lot on his plate. From the controversy behind Health Care to the constant urgency that is keeping an entire nation safe. One of the main hardships of this country is immigration and the laws that must be regulated in order to keep a fair balance in living in the land of the free.
U.S. Border Patrol agent Jesus Mesa Jr. shot down a 15-year-old Mexican boy named Sergio Adrian Hernandez-Guereca in 2010, alleging that the boy threw a rock at him. Attorney Robert Hilliard, the lawyer for the victim's family, stated that there was no proof that Hernandez-Guereca threw a rock at the agent, and continues to press on with a lawsuit after U.S. prosecutors chose not to charge Mesa in the wrongful death of the teenager. The teenager's death was witnessed by 25 civilian witnesses and law enforcement officials.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has been on a roll lately -- he's implemented a "revenge porn" law to protect online victims from their exes, he's tackling the war on drugs with his more lenient stance on nonviolent drug offenders and he's allowed undocumented immigrants who have law licenses to practice law in California -- further expanding immigrants' rights.
