President Obama requested authority to deport more undocumented immigrant children last week, and immigrant rights groups are fighting back against the pending authorization.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told Hispanics that comprehensive immigration reform will not come to fruition this summer. Reid placed blame on House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, for noting voting on an immigration reform bill within the House of Representatives.
President Barack Obama continued a recent Fourth of July tradition at the White House by holding a naturalization ceremony, granting citizenship to immigrants who signed up to serve in the U.S. military as well as their spouses.
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."
New York City became the first jurisdiction in the United States to provide free legal counsel to detained undocumented immigrations facing deportation. New York City's Council passed the $4.9 billion program known as the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP) after a "successful" yearlong trial.
Maria Hinojosa, host and executive producer of NPR's "Latino USA" and the founder of Futuro Media Group, recently aired an episode of "Latino USA" entitled "Kids!" where she spoke with an anonymous whistleblower, using the name 'K', who shared their experience as an employee at a detention center.
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.
House Democrats introduced the Vulnerable Immigrant Voice Act of 2014, legislation that would provide legal representation to unaccompanied minors and mentally disabled individuals during immigration proceedings.
Secretary Johnson tells Congress all legal means will be considered Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Tuesday told Congress that his department would "consider every conceivable, lawful option" to deal with the rush of illegal immigration in South Texas, according to a report from The Associated Press.
Within recent weeks, researchers have discovered even more mass graves, littered with the bodies of dozens of unidentified migrants who died of exposure while trying to evade border authorities as they attempted to enter the U.S., succumbing to the hot and dry region, where the temperature reaches 100 degrees in the summer.
Secretary Jeh Johnson will travel to Arizona to visit detention facilities that have seen dramatic increases in children immigrants and are currently overfilled.
Latino lawmakers in California are pushing to repeal anti-immigrant proposals in California. A group of Latino lawmakers in California are seeking to reverse a string of anti-immigrant laws in an effort to gain more rights for immigrants in the state.
On Friday, the Obama administration announced steps to crack down on the surge of women and children from Central America illegally crossing U.S. borders.
President Barack Obama's approval rating continued to slip, according to new polling data. The poll also showed a majority of respondents believe the country is heading in the wrong direction.
Hillary Clinton said in an interview Tuesday that unaccompanied migrant children should be sent back to their home countries. The number of migrant children crossing the border unaccompanied has risen dramatically over the past year.
Five Latino civil rights and voter engagement organizations released a scorecard for the members from the House of Representatives grading their actions on immigration reform. The scorecard was developed in anticipation of of the House's summer recess in July.
The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act is in effect across Washington State following a bipartisan vote in February. The law official made Washington the fourth state to approve state financial aid for college students with undocumented immigrant status.
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.
