Democrats' immigration reform bill thats aims to curb the high number of unaccompanied child migrants from crossing into the U.S. is unlikely to pass before summer recess, while Republicans are seeking to pass their own immigration bill.
The New York Senate adjourned its 2014 legislative session, and one bill on the docket failed to pass in time: the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM Act.
Jody Hice, the Republican candidate running for a U.S. House seat in Georgia's 10th district, stated Islam is not really a religion and that it doesn't deserve the First Amendment protection of religious liberty.
House Republicans will elect a new majority House leader on Thursday in wake of Eric Cantor's stunning loss in the Virginia Republican primary to little known Tea Party challenger Dave Brat
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed a bill into that allows undocumented students to qualify for in-state college tuition. Scott signed the bill in private but will hold a public signing at a campaign event in Fort Myers later in the afternoon, Fox News Latino reported.
Senate Republicans who oppose President Barack Obama's newly imposed power plant regulations, which were announced earlier this week, have signed a letter to the White House urging the president to repeal the rule.
The Environmental Protection Agency will announce Monday its proposed regulations to reduce carbon emissions at power plants, which the president insisted during his weekly radio address Saturday would improve public health.
GOP Tea Party voters and conservative Republicans have verbalized the need to press forward with immigration reform. In spite of this, President Barack Obama has delayed a review of deportation policies, which won’t be addressed until the end of the summer, in hopes that Congress will approve a complete overhaul of immigration laws.
Overcrowded city and county jails have lead the President Barack Obama and his administration to make changes to the Secure Communities program, which ranks repeat immigration violators as high as violent offenders on the priority list for deportations.
Earlier this week almost 50 Democratic U.S. senators signed and sent a letter to the NFL urging it to replace the name of the Washington Redskins because of its derogatory implication.
A new CBS poll shows the Tea Party is losing support. The Tea Party's influence may have been felt during the 2010 election, but four years later, just 15 percent of Americans support the conservative political movement.
During the last several months, numerous civil rights and immigration reform advocates have protested at detention centers around the nation calling for President Barack Obama to end deportations and the inhumane treatment of detainees.
Ronald Reagan once famously proclaimed that Latinos "are Republicans, they just don't know it yet." Well, Ann Coulter - disagrees with that statement, having once stated that it's a waste of time for the GOP to woo Latino voters because they are "lazy, not religious, dependent on government, socially progressive, and poor."
House Republicans are paving a path to citizenship with a specified two-way street, offering the opportunity for "dreamers" to remain in the U.S. -- only if they earn a college degree or serve in the military, Takepart reports.
According to a poll released on Thursday by CNN and ORC International, the majority of Americans agree that the current Congress is a “do-nothing” Congress and is the worst Congress seen in their lifetimes.
In yet another bone-headed move, the Republican National Committee sent out a Tweet thanking Rosa Parks for "ending racism," only to delete the Tweet moments later after a firestorm of criticism.
