President Barack Obama addressed and answered questions on immigration Nashville, Tennessee, a location he viewed as "one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the country."
Mayors from 25 U.S. cities met in New York City for a summit to discuss groundwork to implement President Obama's executive action to provide immigration relief to millions of undocumented people nationwide. The group worked out coordinating and sharing expertise, and strategies to push for immigration reform.
The federal judge selected to rule on a pending multi-state lawsuit over President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration reform has already been critical of the president's immigration policy.
While the overall U.S. unemployment rate was unchanged for November at 5.8 percent, the Latino unemployment rate, however, did drop across the nation during the same period.
The U.S. Department of Justice released new guidelines on profiling individuals, but immigrant, minority and religious rights groups remained concerned about exemptions for certain federal agencies.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced new guidance to ease racial profiling accusations, but immigrant rights groups have voiced concern about the new steps.
Republicans are planning legislation for 2015 on toughening the U.S.-Mexican border as a response to President Barack Obama's easing of immigration regulation by stopping the deportations of millions of undocumented residents.
Sometime next week, Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a new set of guidelines that will restrict the controversial practice of racial profiling in law enforcement agencies.
Congressional leaders have been called by 18 attorneys general to address the need for bipartisan immigration legislation to fix the “dysfunctional” legal immigration system.
Republican lawmakers outraged by President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration reform plan to introduce a bill that could apparently include a provision to put an electrified wire on the Mexican border to stop the flow of undocumented immigrants.
While approximately 4.9 million undocumented immigrants may be eligible for President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions, one group did not receive as much protection from possible deportation: the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) community.
A little more than two years after President Barack Obama issued an executive action to create the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, he expanded the program for hundreds of thousands of additional undocumented immigrants to receive a temporary stay in the U.S.
Texas is leading a coalition of 16 other states in suing the Obama Administration over his plan for immigration reform. The suit argues Obama's executive action violated the U.S. Constitution.
President Barack Obama's latest immigration executive action is only temporary and could be expired in 2017 when the next president is sworn into office, but based on new polling data, immigration will remain an important topic for the Latino community during the 2016 presidential election.
President Barack Obama's immigration executive orders addressed issues including border security, expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), work permit authorization for undocumented immigrant parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents, but one topic left unanswered for many immigrant rights groups is the management of detention centers.
Politicians, pundits and law experts, have questioned the legality of President Barack Obama's Nov. 20 immigration executive action, but experts during a press call this week have reinforced the president's orders as lawful.
House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday pushed a spending bill that would fund most of the federal government through September of 2015. The move comes as some of the Ohio representative's fellow Republicans are preparing for a showdown with President Barack Obama that could lead to another government shutdown.
Republicans have to pay attention to the Latino vote ahead of the presidential election in 2016, but how to do that, and preserve their political base that is against rights for undocumented immigrants is the problem they now face. In what appears to be the start of an immigration reform battle for the new congressional session in January, Republican lawmakers and pundits are considering several routes to fight Obama on his executive action for immigration reform, and introduce their own legislation.
