Rubio Warns Obama Could Act to Legalize Immigrants

By Erica Werner, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio warned Tuesday that if Congress doesn’t pass immigration overhaul legislation, President Barack Obama may act on his […]

By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, Think Progress During a sparsely attended, Tea Party-sponsored, “Stop Amnesty” rally against immigration reform on Monday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) launched into a vicious tirade against individuals from […]

By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog The immigration reform debate has always created alliances uncommon in regular domestic political battles, as illustrated in this LA Times story. So moderate and upper-class […]

By Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer In the past three years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has rapidly increased its use of drones for domestic surveillance, despite growing concern from […]

By Ashley Alman, Huffington Post Latino Voices An official appointed by Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) was promptly fired on Thursday after comparing undocumented immigrants to the devil in a Facebook comment,Daniel […]

By UPI CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 7 (UPI) — Low-skilled Mexican-born U.S. workers shielded low-skilled U.S.-born workers from job losses during the Great Recession by returning to Mexico, a study found. The […]

By National Council of La Raza Every year, there are more than four million incidents of housing discrimination that occur in the United States. Yet these incidents are tremendously underreported, […]

By Brenna Goth, Arizona Republic ELOY — Undocumented-immigrant activist Marco Saavedra hopes that the 16 days he spent in Eloy Detention Center after attempting to re-enter the United States serves […]

By Matt O’Brien, San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a high-profile case for immigration reform Monday night, speaking publicly for the first time on […]

By Huffington Post Latino Voices  Weeks of uncertainty for the group of young undocumented immigrants — known as the “Dream 9” — detained after crossing the U.S. – Mexico border in protest […]