The message from voters in Massachusetts has Democrats reassessing their next steps as they balance the risks of an election year with an agenda they can no longer push through on their own.
Republican Scott Brown's jaw-dropping victory Tuesday night in the special election to serve out the remainder of...
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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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Jan 19, 2010
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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Rallies by Nebraskans to urge changes in national immigration laws are not new.
But there were some new voices speaking out today at a press conference calling upon Congress to update laws and create a path to citizenship for many of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the country today.
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