Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that she was optimistic that a bipartisan immigration-policy overhaul would, at some point, get through Congress.
"This is not a new issue," she said in a meeting with The Dallas Morning News' editorial board. "It's just putting together a comprehensive package that...
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Aug 27, 2009
While Democrats in Congress are hoping to push health care reform forward in honor of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, the senator's death serves as a reminder that Congress and President Obama have substantial work to do to accomplish another of Kennedy's lifelong causes: immigration reform.
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Much has been said in the past two days about Sen. Ted Kennedy's legacy with regard to health care and civil rights, but less attention has been paid to another area where the senator from Massachusetts left his mark: immigration.
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Imelda Garcia's voice trembled and tears formed in her eyes as she told the story.
The Aurora resident and U.S. citizen described a family torn apart by immigrations laws. She lives here with daughters Yeimi and Natalie, while her husband is in Mexico with the couple's 2-year-old daughter.
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Aug 26, 2009
The feds can't -- just yet -- deport Michigan restaurateur Ibrahim Parlak to his native Turkey. But they are frighteningly closer.
And the irony screams out.
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Evelyn Santos began her quest for a green card nearly two decades ago, hoping someday she and her family could leave the Philippines and start a better life in the United States.
The opportunity came in 2007, but with a painful caveat: Her two elder sons were now too old...
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Sen. Edward Kennedy's first major legislative victory helped change the face of the country and shaped his own political career.
In 1965, Kennedy had been in the Senate less than three years. His party's leaders gave him the job of pushing a bill to eliminate the quota system that had...
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Lost and without water in the scorching desert a few miles (km) southwest of Tucson, Arizona, a group of six migrants who crossed the Mexican border hoping for a new life in the United States used a cellphone to call emergency services for help.
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Along with a health care reform bill, it would be a fitting tribute to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) if Congress could act on his other great unfinished cause: immigration reform.
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Guest host Jennifer Ludden speaks with NPR correspondent Juan Williams about the recent passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy and legislative highlights from his 46 years in Congress, including his involvement in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, support for a federal holiday honoring the late Rev. Martin Luther King,...
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