A work dispute in 2010 led to a Mexican national who has lived in the US for 15 years being swept up by ICE under its controversial Secure Communities Program. Facing deportation he has sought sanctuary in a Denver church. Garcia said, "We are part of this country and not a threat."
The second open-enrollment period of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) HealthCare.gov federal exchange is less than a month away, but documented immigrants and naturalized U.S. citizens should be prepared to encounter application problems.
With President Barack Obama scheduled to issue an executive action on immigration in the coming weeks, the White House reaffirmed its position on providing legal representation to undocumented immigrant children.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said President Barack Obama's potential executive action on immigration could result in the U.S. becoming a third-world country.
Every day, 2,000 Latinos turn 18 years old in the United States, representing potentially new voters or a person that might be enchanted enough by politics to want to run for election.
Immigration reform watchers are questioning by the USCIS would post bid for a vendor to print millions of work authorization and permanent residency cards. President Obama has said he will take measure to reform immigration in November. Are the two linked agendas?
Representatives from national Latino and labor organizations described the situation one of the Central American countries as "unbearable" while natives continue to migrate north into Mexico and the United States.
Several Senate Democrats penned a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about their opposition to the creation of the largest immigrant detention facility in the country.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has struck down an Arizona state constitutional amendment that banned judges from considering bail for undocumented immigrants suspected of a crime.
Three weeks remain until the mid-term elections and 25.2 million Latinos are registered to vote. There are contentious Senate races in a number of states but few with large numbers of Latino voters. Election watchers are curious how this will affect voter turnout.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) candidates are renewing their applications to avoid deportation, but with President Obama's failure to introduce executive action or back legislative reform, their future is uncertain as there are no obvious next steps to citizenship.
Sixty-eight immigrant detainees held at the Artesia Family Residential Center in New Mexico have been released, and more than a dozen were deported last week.
When President Barack Obama announced a delay on his immigration executive action, he said politics was not behind the decision, but Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, disagreed.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes had their first debate ahead of midterm Election Day, but it's the Democratic Senate candidate that's receiving criticism for her latest immigration campaign advertisement.
We the People Rising, a group based in California, is demanding that Arizona Sen. Ricardo Lara remove a cartoon from his office that implies that current immigration law is racist.
