Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly's General Debate, Guatemala's foreign affairs minister said the influx of undocumented immigrant children to the United States should not be considered a crime.
El Salvador's president spoke before the United Nations about decreasing poverty levels, quality of life and migration of children that's also affecting Central America.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced plans to establish a new family detention facility to address the increasing numbers of undocumented immigrants entering the country, and national Latino and immigrant rights groups are not pleased.
Hundreds of undocumented immigrant women and children are in detention facilities across the U.S., and providing the medical needs of the individuals may be a demanding task for the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, but one ICE agent has been credited to saving the life of a little girl's life.
President Barack Obama announced his latest nominations to "key" administration posts, including three Latinos, which could affect immigration management.
National immigrants' rights groups are suing the U.S. government over claims of lack of due process for "scores" of Central American women and children at the Artesia immigrant detention facility in New Mexico.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed a memorandum with the Honduran National Police agreeing to cooperate in future investigations involving Honduran nationals.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, the state has stopped accepting requests from federal immigration authorities to host detainees without a court order.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's probe into Immigration and Customs Enforcement found thousands of immigrant detainees were released in less than one month in 2013. ICE's decision to release the immigrants was done for budgetary reasons and was finalized without the consent of the White House or the Department of Homeland Security.
Minuteman project existed for five years and helped patrol the border from 2005-2010; but the group was accused of being vigilantes and charged with crimes. But a renewed effort encourages following laws and set to patrol again in 2015.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) receives tough criticism from the Latino community in regards to immigration and deportation policies. At the League of United Latino American Citizens (LULAC) annual national convention in Manhattan, ICE's San Antonio Field Office Director Enrique Lucero tried to clarify his agency's responsibilities during a session titled "Deportation Nation: Immigration Reform Crisis and Opportunity."
Waves of undocumented children traveling from Central American countries without their families have been caught attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas and are being transported to Arizona.
In recent months, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has come under fire for treatment of immigrants it has arrested, and now public officials have raised concerns with agents in Texas who have been transporting detainees and abandoning them in other states.
The Obama administration is expected to announce a new policy initiative that would decrease the number of deportations of nonviolent undocumented workers.
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.
Hundreds of workers at an apple-packaging company in central Washington are in jeopardy of losing their jobs after a federal immigration audit unveiled discrepancies in the payroll.
After alluding capture by U.S. authorities in December 2012, the Cuban fugitive, Raonel Valdez, went on the run to the Caribbean before eventually getting arrested in Mexico where he awaited justice for allegedly participating in a $2.8 million gold heist.
Despite the recently launched Affordable Care Act providing limited access for undocumented immigrants to Medicaid and private health insurance companies, the federal law prohibits them from those programs.
The Obama administration, immigration, and deportation have been lumped topics within recent years, and will continue to be as long as undocumented immigrants continue to be removed from the country at unparalleled rates. The New York Times reported that while the president has aimed his boot at kicking out "criminals, gang bangers, people who are hurting the community, not students... folks who are here just because they're trying to figure out how to feed their families," New York Times analysis shows that more than 60 are guilty of minor infractions.
