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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks next to Vice President Joe Biden during a meeting with business leaders to discuss immigration at the White House in Washington in this November 5, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/Files The Obama administration has quietly delayed the deportation of 56,000 undocumented immigrants from Central America, according to a report from The New York Times.
If you've seen Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine talk about illegal immigration recently it's probably to attack Donald Trump for being too harsh. But earlier today Rich Weinstein , the guy who found many of those infamous videos of Jonathan Gruber talking about the ACA, uncovered this little seen 2012 interview in which Kaine talks tough about illegal immigration and the need for more border security: "What I would do on the immigration, you know, comprehensive reform is this," Kaine says.
I've spent more than ten years reporting in America on the harsh reality of life for those struggling in the margins. This country provides extraordinary opportunities for many of its citizens.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley pulled 51 people from an illegal alien stash house described by officials as "deplorable." Border Patrol agents assigned to the McAllen Station in the Rio Grande Valley Sector responded to a tip on Monday about two apartments being used as a stash house for illegal immigrants smuggled from Mexico into the United States.
Money should not be an excuse for mismanagement of crime or inefficiency in the judiciary, according to criminologist Prof Ramesh Deosaran. He said while law abiding citizens fear crime, criminals fear neither detection nor punishment.
There are new security concerns along the Mexican border, as officials say the illegal immigration problem is growing worse. Some are likening it to the 2014 crisis in which there was an enormous surge of unaccompanied minors crossing into the U.S., Casey Stegall reported this morning.
Donald Trump admitted in a video deposition released on Friday that he did not consult with anyone ahead of delivering his controversial presidential announcement speech on June 16, 2015. "With respect to the speech that you made, and specifically the focus on Mexicans and immigrants, did you write the statement in advance?" Trump was asked by attorneys earlier this summer.
Here on the High Plains, where the deer and the antelope once played, Denver's suburbs roam toward the Rockies' Front Range and the nature of today's polyglot politics is written in the local congressman's campaign schedule. One day last week, Republican Mike Coffman went from a Hispanic charter school in a strip mall, to another strip mall for lunch at an Ethiopian restaurant with leaders of the Ethiopian-American community, then to a meeting with the editor of the largest of two Korean-language newspapers serving more than 3,000 Korean-Americans in the metropolitan area.
Texas State Troopers patrol the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border on August 18 near McAllen, Texas. Securing the U.S.-Mexico border has become a major issue in the U.S. Presidential campaign, which is strange since Mexican migration to the U.S. is at net zero.
There's been lots of speculation about the fate of the Republican Party if Donald Trump loses. There's been less speculation, though recent polling suggests it may be in order, about the fate of the Democratic Party if Hillary Clinton loses.
The U.S. unauthorized immigrant population - 11.1 million in 2014 - has stabilized since the end of the Great Recession, as the number from Mexico declined but the total from other regions of the world increased, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on government data. ...Mexicans remain the majority of the nation's unauthorized immigrant population, but their estimated number - 5.8 million in 2014 has declined by about half a million people since 2009.
APRIL 11: U.S. Border Patrol agents and a pilot from the U.S. Office of Air and Marine , stop to talk on April 11, 2013 in La Joya, Texas. In the last month the Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley sector has seen a spike in the number of immigrants crossing the river from Mexico into Texas.
Former Major League Baseball pitcher and ESPN analyst Curt Schilling told his fans Sunday night that those accused of terrorism should be stripped of their habeus corpus right to challenge illegal detention without a trial, and subject to execution. "You must, immediately, suspend immigration.
A local student is awarded the LIFE scholarship to go to college, only to be told it would be taken away because of her her parents' illegal immigration status. According to the Department of Homeland Security, more than 11 million people reside in the U.S. illegally and many have children.
North Carolina state law states that only a legal resident can become a notary public, but the state's secretary of state is granting licenses to illegal immigrants. The North State Journal called a staffer at the North Carolina Secretary of State's office's notary public section who said that "yes" a copy of a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals work permit would satisfy residency requirements to become a notary public.
Donald Trump took his campaign to Texas on Saturday, bashing Hillary Clinton's immigration policies as too lax, in a state still up for grabs on Election Day. With polls showing a tightening race just over seven weeks before the November 8 election, the Republican candidate turned up the vitriol, saying that as president, his Democratic rival would virtually end border enforcement and place the country "in grave peril."
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used a Saturday trip to Houston to address families of victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants - and blast Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as unsympathetic to their concerns. "When Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, the matter of this country refusing to take back their deported citizens came before Hillary Clinton's desk," Trump said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agents have apprehended 56 undocumented Cuban migrants over the past week following a string of landings along South Florida's coastline. On Tuesday, Border Patrol agents assigned to the Marathon station detained 13 Cuban nationals at Long Key State Park.
In a move that is sure to draw the ire of Republicans, California officials are asking the Obama administration this week to approve a plan that would allow undocumented immigrants to buy health insurance on the state's public exchange. Officials say up to 30 percent of the state's 2 million undocumented adults could be eligible for the program, and about 17,000 people are expected to participate in the first year, if the plan is approved.