President Barack Obama will head to New York this week for the third time in May to deliver the commencement address at West Point, where he is expected to defend his foreign policy approach.
A White House aide has confirmed that House Speaker John Boehner did not say that he was committed to voting on the comprehensive immigration reform bill.
A new report finds that Latino immigrants are deported at a disproportionately high rate, more than any other ethnicity. Hector Sanchez, the chair of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda that co-authored the report with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, faults President Obama for the high level of deportations.
As part of a new initiative to reform harsh drug sentencing laws, President Obama plans to grant clemency to hundreds, or even thousands of nonviolent drug offenders.
In a time when congressional action is slow, at best, the U.S. Senate confirmed the third-ever Latina to head a Presidential Cabinet position. On Thursday, Maria Contreras-Sweet, a long-time leader in the Hispanic business community, was confirmed as the head of the Small Business Administration.
President Obama is preparing to offer legislation to make good on his promise to reform the National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. phone records, also known as metadata. Whether or not that legislation passes through Congress is yet to be seen.
It's not like the address changes from year to year when the lease is up...a convicted child molester is currently in a world of trouble in Pittsburgh because he sent a threat to President Barack Obama...and sent it to the wrong address.
President Obama met for a second time with top technology industry executives on Friday, discussing concerns over the National Security Agency's surveillance programs and the possibility of reform.
Directing a powerful biopic on the iconic, Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, Cesar Chavez, was one of the most moving chapters in the life of Mexican actor and director Diego Luna.In an exclusive interview with the Latin Post, Luna shares the impact the film and the powerful movement is having on his life and career.
If you thought the National Security Agency, which is now famous for collecting U.S. phone records or "metadata," wasn't at least capable of listening in on the actual content of phone calls, think again. A new Washington Post report says the NSA has the capability to record phone calls and hold on to the entire record on a 30-day basis - for entire countries.
More than 60,000 children arrive in the United States from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico -- and they make the voyage alone, without their parents. Many children are in search of their parents, who may be undocumented, unlisted, and working to send funds back to their home countries. Some other children travel to the United States so that they can escape homes foreboding lives thrashed with gang violence.
The Republican Party has spent $10 million to gain the interest of the Hispanic population, inundating the public with Spanish-language advertisements that aim to incite opposition to the nation's Affordable Care Act, unseat Democrats, and ensure that a member of the GOP sits in the Oval Office after the next election. The conservative push to disparage Obama over the ACA and immigration overshadows the GOP's efforts to assist the Hispanic community -- and exposes presidential and a desire to shake immigration as a topic.
