The mayor of Bell, California, who came to the United States illegally from Mexico when he was 4 years old, has been working alongside other city officials and the Salvation Army to set up a temporary shelter for the young immigrants from Central America.
House GOP leaders said immigration reform is effectively dead in the House, despite Senate passing a bill last year. The bill did receive bipartisan support in the House, but was not enough and leaders site a lack of faith in Obama to enforce the bill.
The White House is receiving pressure from both Republicans and immigrant rights advocates to address the immigration crisis on the U.S. border with Mexico.
As the nation's border states continue to see an influx of unaccompanied minors from Central America cross the U.S.-Mexico border, filling up federal facilities, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to pass a $3.7 billion fund to process the undocumented minors and transport them back to their homelands.
Politicians and critics are battling the fate of hundreds of Central Americans months away from an election. The children are fleeing violent situations and current laws deal with those seeking asylum from other countries slower than those from Mexico and Canada.
President facing mounting criticism over undocumented immigrants from Central America Protesters were out again in force in California on Friday, voicing their opinion on an illegal immigration crisis that appears to be getting worse.
Immigration into Chile jumped 24 percent last year as workers from countries like Colombia, Peru and Spain came to the wealthiest country in Latin America looking for jobs.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told Hispanics that comprehensive immigration reform will not come to fruition this summer. Reid placed blame on House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, for noting voting on an immigration reform bill within the House of Representatives.
President Barack Obama continued a recent Fourth of July tradition at the White House by holding a naturalization ceremony, granting citizenship to immigrants who signed up to serve in the U.S. military as well as their spouses.
Maria Hinojosa has covered the story of unaccompanied, undocumented minors since 1999, watching the challenging reality unfold. She told Latin Post the U.S. government has known about these children for over a decade — back when there were as few as 1,000 crossing unaccompanied each year. The numbers "didn't jump up to 90,000 overnight."
New York City became the first jurisdiction in the United States to provide free legal counsel to detained undocumented immigrations facing deportation. New York City's Council passed the $4.9 billion program known as the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP) after a "successful" yearlong trial.
According to some immigration experts, as many as 80 percent of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors, mostly from Central America, illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border may be permitted to stay in the U.S.
The president appears to be upping his response to wave of undocumented immigration President Barack Obama is expected to ask Congress on Monday for $2 billion to address the flood of immigrants crossing into the U.
The New York City Council on Thursday approved the use of municipal identification cards for undocumented immigrants in a substantial victory for city immigrant rights groups. The program will extend city services to an estimated 500,000 immigrants, regardless of citizenship status, thereby expanding access to services for undocumented immigrants.
As the U.S. continues to panic over the influx of unaccompanied minors, mostly from Central America, illegally crossing the U.S. border, Mexico has reported the prevention of 9,622 children from doing the same act this year.
Up to 700 immigrants should arrive at New Mexico facility by end of week As the federal government continues to spar over what to do with the flood of illegal immigrants coming into the country, hundreds of them are going to be housed at a Border Patrol training academy in Artesia, New Mexico, according to a Fox News report.
