President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions are expected to provide new regulations and policies affecting immigrant visas and provisional waivers.
Despite President Barack Obama’s executive actions, law enforcement and religious-based leaders are pressing Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions included deportation deferment for approximately 4.9 million undocumented immigrants, but have also ordered for increased border security.
President Barack Obama's job approval rating continued to decline, based on new polling data conducted after the midterm elections, and his handling on immigration has been viewed with unpopular opinion.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Undocumented immigrants parents have an opportunity to avoid deportation with the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) program initiated by President Barack Obama's executive action on Nov. 20.
President Barack Obama's immigration reform executive action has paved the way for undocumented immigrants to be eligible for Medicare and Social Security benefits, the White House has confirmed.
Following President Barack Obama's immigration reform executive action, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson published a memorandum for two agencies heavily affected by the executive order: the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
President Barack Obama's alleged plan to defer approximately five million undocumented immigrants from deportation has, as expected, infuriated the Republican Party and could impact an upcoming spending bill for the 2015 fiscal year.
National immigrant rights groups are calling for President Barack Obama to use his imminent immigration executive action to protect families of DACA recipients.
