Oct 22, 2009
When "Marta" was 12, she entered the United States illegally, hoping to join her mother, who had left her in Central America years ago to search for work. Three years later she was sitting in immigration detention by herself waiting to be deported back home to her grandmother, who...
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The nation's immigration system is broken and taking a toll on police and sheriff's departments trying to build trust between law enforcement and immigrant communities, some police leaders said Thursday.
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Some of us first heard of Hota Ferschke, a Japanese widow of American soldier, Sergeant Michael Ferschke, at the immigration reform rally held here in Washington DC, last Tuesday, October 13.
Her story was one of many heart-wrenching examples of our nation's broken immigration system – something she and her...
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A 49-year-old immigration detainee who died at a Boston hospital Monday was apparently working as a Providence taxi driver when Rhode Island State Police stopped him for speeding last year, and turned him over to immigration authorities o.n an outstanding deportation warrant, according to Capt. David Neill.
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Pointing to a steep drop in the number of immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship since federal processing fees were raised two years ago, immigrant advocates in Chicago called on U.S. officials Wednesday not to raise them again in the face of a looming budget shortfall.
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Crystal Dillman says she will never understand why a group of teenage boys beat her fiancé to death.
She says she will spend the rest of her life seeking answers -- and justice -- for the man she has lost as she struggles alone to raise her three young...
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CNN will broadcast a series about the Hispanic presence in the United States which, despite the complaints of Latino groups around the country, omits the anti-immigrant drive of one of the network's own stars, commentator Lou Dobbs.
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Yesterday, on a vote of 79-19 on the conference report on the Department of Homeland Security Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriations bill , the Senate repealed the "widow penalty" – a measure that was enacted 71 years ago, prohibiting a widowed, foreign spouse to file for citizenship (for themselves and...
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Earlier this year, a TV reporter in Arizona coaxed Sen. John McCain into a quick on-air game of word association. The reporter would say a word or two, McCain would offer a short response and it all went along well until the reporter said the following words: "Joe Arpaio."
The...
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Financial reform just wandered into the culture wars.
Democrats erupted over an amendment offered by New York Republican Rep. Chris Lee Wednesday night that would bar the proposed consumer financial protection agency from mandating financial firms provide disclosures in any language other than English.
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