Despite the legal setback in President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions, immigrant rights advocates have remained confident that millions of undocumented immigrants will soon apply for deferred action.
President Barack Obama and the U.S. Department of Justice encountered a setback in lifting the temporary injunction on his immigration executive actions, and Latino congressional lawmakers are disappointed with the "huge blow" delivered to the Latino community.
Two of the three judges belonging to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit panel that heard the case concerning President Barack Obama's immigration order sided with the states suing the administration.
Following the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’ calls for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to end the immigrant family detention program, national organization have focused the concerns toward the White House.
Despite supporting a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants a few years ago, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has flip flopped on the issue, declaring that he now stands against the idea of giving undocumented immigrants a path to legal status.
The Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) program, created by President Barack Obama's immigration executive action in November 2014, could provide more than 20,000 new jobs, per year for the next decade.
Six months after President Barack Obama announced his latest immigration executive action, the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) program's future remains unknown. To commemorate what would have been DAPA’s implementation date, Latino and immigrant rights are hosting events and rallies for the deferred action program that could result in a GDP increase of $164 billion by 2025.
More than two-thirds of the U.S. Latino electorate live in six states -- Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas -- but one progressive advocacy organization has been working on having anti-Latino and anti-immigrant representatives accountable and heard for Latinos across the country, especially for the presidential election season.
Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been trying to court the Latino electorate, but a former aide said she needs a specific Latino vice presidential candidate to improve her victory odds.
On Sunday Mexico's navy rescued two rafts crammed with Cuban migrants off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula about 12 nautical miles north of Puerto Progreso.
A recent report by the Center for American Progress found Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) overwhelmingly discriminate against LGBT immigrants, despite recent attempts by the Obama administration to improve the treatment of LGBT people in the country and around the world.
Labor leaders, workers and community activists vowed to defend new deferred action programs pushing for immigration reform a day ahead of the expansion of the program that would allow millions of workers to live and work legally in the United States.
A new report reveals that the backlog in the overburdened federal immigration courts has increased by 68 percent since 2014, bringing the number of pending cases to an all-time high of more than 445,000.
Despite the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency’s new enhanced oversight announcements on its immigrant detention facilities, congressional lawmakers and immigrant rights’ advocates are still voicing their disapproval.
An Army veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder may face deportation after obtaining an extensive criminal record for driving under the influence of alcohol. His family is fighting to keep him in the U.S.
Immigration reforms advocates encountered another setback from the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday. Lawmakers voted to not include an amendment that would allow recipients of President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to enlist in the military.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a "series of actions" to enhance the agency's oversight on family residential facilities, also referred to as detention centers. ICE’s announcement comes as congressional lawmakers called for the end of such detention facilities.
Conservatives whistled and cheered at a recent GOP event when the mother-in-law of Citizens United Foundation President Dave Bossie likened immigrants to "rats and roaches."
More than a hundred Republican lawmakers, including two presidential hopefuls, have signed an amicus brief joining the 26 states and state officials suing the Obama administration over the president's executive orders on immigration.
