Jan 26, 2012
The Texas law allowing some illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition rates, a flashpoint issue that helped doom Republican Gov. Rick Perry's campaign for president, is set to be tweaked Thursday to remind students they promised to seek legal status.
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Since Monday night's GOP primary debate in Tampa, Florida, the blogosphere has been buzzing over two words that Mitt Romney said in regards to immigration: "self deportation."
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The state that brought us anti-immigrant law architect Kris Kobach and State Rep. Virgil "shoot immigrants like hogs" Peck is stooping to a new low in anti-immigrant policy. As a Kansas City Star article this weekend explained, the Sunflower State has a new procedure in place eliminating or reducing...
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Despite entrenched opposition in Congress to immigration reform, President Obama in the State of the Union speech asked both chambers to resurrect the Dream Act, a bill that would create a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants who are college students and military service members.
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Hoping to exploit former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's potential weaknesses with Latino voters, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and a major Democratic super PAC are attacking the Republican presidential candidate in a Spanish-language radio ad entitled "Las Dos Caras de Mitt Romney," or "The Two Faces of Mitt...
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They were known as Miller's Boys, police officers who worked the 4-to-midnight shift, patrolling the largely working-class town of East Haven, Conn., including the small but growing Hispanic community that has spread out in recent years from New Haven.
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Mexican actor Demián Bichir is going head-to-head with George Clooney and Brad Pitt for "Best Actor" at this year's Academy Awards. Bichir landed the Oscar nod Tuesday morning for his performance in last year's tear-jerking film "A Better Life."
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Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney once tacitly supported immigration reform. Sadly, his recent embrace of hard-line immigration positions is a show we've seen before with Sen. John McCain in 2008, and it targets the fastest-growing demographic in the country. With his new stance, he risks losing not only the...
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The Republican primary season is heading to Florida, then out west for primaries in Nevada, Arizona and Colorado, all states with Hispanic heavy populations. These primaries are worthy of attention as they present a clear test of the GOP's strategy of pandering to the anti-immigrant wing of their base.
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Univision, in collaboration with Miami Dade College, will host a "Meet the Candidates" event with the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls. Watch Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum speaking with Univision journalist Jorge Ramos on a range of issues – one of which is sure to be immigration.
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