On Friday, the Administration announced a welcome policy change known as the "Family Unity Visa Waiver", which enables undocumented spouses of US citizens to apply for a waiver before returning to their home countries to obtain their green cards.
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Why is it that Republican politicians in Nevada can't learn from recent history when it comes to Latino voters and the politics of immigration? In a key development for one of the 2012 cycle's most prominent Senate battleground races, Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) used the occasion of a...
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Former presidential candidate and archconservative culture warrior Pat Buchanan has finally done it. It wasn't his claim that President Obama's higher education was "probably affirmative action all the way." It wasn't his claim that "this has been a country built, basically by white folks."
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President Obama moved to repair relations with a crucial voting bloc and opened another battle with Republican lawmakers by easing rules on the politically volatile issue of illegal immigration.
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Gallegly is one of the worst of the worst when it comes to immigration in Congress, as we've documented repeatedly. He's currently the Chair of the House Subcommittee on Immigration. Over the weekend, we learned that Gallegly is retiring.
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Like many other spouses of undocumented immigrants, Gina Pope constantly worries that her husband suddenly could be deported and that she would be left to raise their two children by herself.
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Fresh from his narrow victory in Iowa, Republican party hopeful Mitt Romney is facing blistering attacks from Latino and immigration activists today, who said Romney's opposition to the Dream Act is a "bridge to nowhere" which will cost him the Latino - as well as some non-Latino - votes....
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Two years after the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program was implemented, federal officials determined that choices available to local law enforcement agencies that wished to decline or limit their participation would be "streamlined" or "eliminated," making the information-sharing program mandatory, according to a memo recently made public.
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Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Calif., announced he won't be running for a 14th term Saturday, a decision that allows Republicans to avoid a messy intraparty battle between two veteran members of Congress.
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Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller took a hard stance against immigration reform that would grant illegal immigrants amnesty Friday, telling a Hispanic group in Las Vegas that he does not support the DREAM Act or birthright citizenship for some children.
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