One month after President Obama issued executive actions altering the landscape of the immigration system in the U.S., Republicans in Congress are looking to respond with immigration legislation of their own.
A Mexican man living in Denver received a reply from the White House after writing a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to stop "unjustified deportation" of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
Joe Arpaio, Arizona sheriff famous for his targeting of undocumented immigrants and racial profiling in his county, has filed a lawsuit against the president over his executive order on immigration, arguing it to be unconstitutional and amnesty.
While President Barack Obama issued executive actions that may defer nearly five million undocumented immigrants from deportation, he also issued a "presidential memorandum" aimed towards modernizing and streamlining the country's immigration visa system.
The head of a top federal immigration agency has urged undocumented immigrants to utilize the temporary legal status opportunities provided by President Barack Obama's executive actions.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Sarah Saldaña, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, as the next director the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, whose appointment was met with praise from legal and immigration experts and advocates.
For the first time, young Arizona immigrants known as "dreamers" will be permitted to get driver's licenses now that the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's executive order which blocked young immigrants with legal status from getting a license.
The Department of Motor Vehicles in California is gearing up for an expected flood of new applicants next year once a law allowing undocumented immigrants to apply for driver's licenses goes into effect on Jan. 2.
President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions are expected to provide new regulations and policies affecting immigrant visas and provisional waivers.
Not even a month has passed since President Barack Obama announced an executive order on immigration, but it has already been threatened by legal and legislative action.
Although Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid tried to send the Senate home for the weekend and reconvene on Monday, Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee created a procedural roadblock, insisting that the Majority Leader allow a vote on an amendment to the bill that would deter funding from President Obama's executive order to stop almost 5 million undocumented immigrants from being deported.
Despite President Barack Obama’s executive actions, law enforcement and religious-based leaders are pressing Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions included deportation deferment for approximately 4.9 million undocumented immigrants, but have also ordered for increased border security.
Four more states have joined a Texas-led coalition that seeks to sue the Obama administration an over executive action on immigration announced last month wherein the president's unilaterally moved to spare millions of people living illegally in the United States from deportation.
President Barack Obama's job approval rating continued to decline, based on new polling data conducted after the midterm elections, and his handling on immigration has been viewed with unpopular opinion.
President Barack Obama addressed and answered questions on immigration Nashville, Tennessee, a location he viewed as "one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the country."
While the overall U.S. unemployment rate was unchanged for November at 5.8 percent, the Latino unemployment rate, however, did drop across the nation during the same period.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced new guidance to ease racial profiling accusations, but immigrant rights groups have voiced concern about the new steps.
