Days following Texas Gov. Rick Perry's announcement to deploy approximately 1,000 National Guard troops to the southern U.S. border, President Barack Obama will send a team to assess if Perry's decision would help ease the immigration crisis.
Immigrant rights groups spoke about the conditions at one detention center in New Mexico on Thursday, and the insufficient resources mothers and children are faced with.
New York City service providers and government officials discussed the coordinated strategy they are undertaking, as part of the New York State Unaccompanied Minors Working Group, to meet the needs of close to 3,000 migrant children who are already in New York State, with another 7,000 minors expected to reach the state in the coming months.
U.S. Senate Democrats are set to propose emergency funding to tackle the immigration crisis at the country's southern border. The proposed funding, however, is $1 billion less than President Barack Obama's original request of $3.7 billion.
On Tuesday, the Mexican government shared its worries over the state of Texas' plan to send hundreds of additional National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The U.S. Immigration Courts are reportedly overwhelmed with immigration cases, but despite President Barack Obama's efforts to ease the border crisis, the courts will see a further backlog of cases. According to National Association of Immigration Judges President Dana Leigh Marks, who has been presiding over immigration cases since 1987, "We are reaching a point of implosion, if we have not already reached it."
Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, announced on Monday plans to deploy approximately 1,000 National Guard troops to the southern Texas border to help secure the border.
On Monday, Florida Republican Rep. Rich Nugent shared his take on the influx of unaccompanied Central American minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that many of them were involved with gangs in their homeland and are a thus a threat.
To ease the influx of undocumented immigrants from crossing the U.S. border from Mexico, music about the dangers of the immigration journey hit the airwaves in Central America.
President Obama will meet with leaders from Central America to discuss ways to curb the high numbers of unaccompanied children crossing into the United States.
The Florida Department of Financial Services raided the Fruit Dynamics packing plant in Florida A raid by the Florida Department of Financial Services of the Fruit Dynamics packing plant in Naples Florida has left over 100 workers behind bars.
The Republicans are not exactly fans of President Obama's Immigration Reform. The latest immigration border crisis with underage immigrant children crossing the frontiers could be the Republicans' most revealing stance on immigration reform yet.
Several hundred protests were held throughout the nation on Friday and Saturday regarding the influx of undocumented immigrant children fleeing their homes in Central America to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
Support and opposition of the influx of child migrants will square off over the weekend. Protesters are taking to the streets all over the country this weekend in response to the U.
Immigrant and worker's rights group VOZ was denied a large grant by a Latino Catholic organization due to their affiliation with a group that supports same-sex marriage.
Human Rights groups continue to speak out about unaccompanied border children saying they are running away from gang violence and sexual abuse. President Obama will meet with the presidents of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras next Friday.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday during a visit to Iowa that he is open to reviewing requests to accept unaccompanied immigrant children into his state.
President Barack Obama met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to discuss the immigration system and crisis on the southern border of the U.S. on Wednesday.
President says drug violence is a primary reason for the current immigration crisis Juan Orlando Hernandez, the president of Honduras, has requested help from the U.
