As the results in Massachusetts demonstrate, Americans remain angry and frustrated at the status quo. They want real action on real issues that will benefit the average hardworking American. They want our politicians to focus on solving problems not scoring political points. They want jobs created,...
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New York City can revive its economy by helping Haitians and other immigrants get small business loans, creating jobs and other programs for at-risk youths, boosting anti-foreclosure efforts, and setting up neighborhood credit unions, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Wednesday.
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Clutching their passports and well-thumbed documents, hundreds of illegal Haitian immigrants crowded into a Roman Catholic church here on Wednesday to seek help in applying for a program that would allow them to stay and work legally in the United States for 18 months.
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Reacting to the Obama Administration's decision to halt deportations to Haiti and extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to undocumented Haitians living in the U.S., anti-immigration zealot Rep. Steve King (R-IA) instead used the Haitian earthquake as a pretext to advance his extremist beliefs.
In a candid admission of his view...
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A coalition of labor, student and immigrant rights groups has gathered in downtown Las Vegas to push for comprehensive immigration reform.
The group on Thursday launched the local part of a national campaign.
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In a late development on Monday, the U.S. governmentannounced it was granting humanitarian paroles to hundreds of Haitian orphans who were waiting to be adopted by Americans before the earthquake.
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Jan 17, 2010
For years, while the rest of the city teemed with immigrants from across the world, Staten Island remained a bastion of native New Yorkers and first- and second-generation Europeans.
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Thousands of immigrant rights advocates marched in front of a county jail in Phoenix Saturday in a protest that was aimed at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration efforts and was marked by a clash between a small group of protesters and police officers.
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Jan 16, 2010
About 250 people marched in Everett to support an immigrant bill soon to be debated in Congress.
Immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Kenya and Laos were among the crowd on Friday.
They support a new attempt at immigration reform is expected to stir up debate in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Jan 15, 2010
The US census has targeted Waltham's immigrant and cultural communities for outreach programs to encourage all residents, including undocumented citizens, to be counted.
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