Tweet The Obama administration wants a faster way to reunite Americans with their illegal immigrant spouses and children. This has been pursued by advocates but blocked by Republicans who doesn’t want that type of legislation to be passed in Congress. At present, illegal immigrants have to leave the United States before they can appeal to the federal... 

Tweet California passed a law over the weekend that allows undocumented immigrants to apply for public financial aid for college. This would be the highest profile change in policy with regards to illegal immigrant youth since the failure of the Dream Act last year. Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Dream Act into law last Saturday... 

Tweet A federal judge ruled last Monday that Alabama’s new law that targets illegal immigration. It came just two months after another federal judge stopped a similar law in Atlanta. After news came out of the decision in Alabama, people are speculating that Georgia’s House Bill 87 will follow the same fate. Alabama’s immigration law was scheduled... 

Tweet President Barack Obama stated on Tuesday that he plans to add more security along the U.S.-Mexico border and wants get the Republican support with regards to the country’s naturalization policies. This is an answer to the Republicans call for increased security along the border. The president added more guards to patrol the border as well as the... 

Tweet President Barack Obama will go to Texas on Tuesday to meet with legislators, business executives, Hispanic celebrities, and evangelical leaders to talk about how his administration is working to secure the border. He said that it’s time for Congress to act with regards to the 10.8 million illegal aliens in the country. Activists are putting the... 

Tweet New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a piece of advice to Detroit to overcome its population loss. According to him, Detroit should pass a law that would allow immigrants to come in as long as they would stay in Detroit and live there for five or ten years. New York’s population increased during the time when most America’s central cities experienced... 

Tweet Immigrants who want to enter the US illegally will try any method to avoid detection by the authorities. The latest was two Mexicans who tried to sneak in using “dive scooters” that are self-propelled underwater devices. The two males, aged 38 and 16, landed on Imperial Beach, Calif and hoped to get through under the cover of darkness. The Customs... 

Tweet For an immigrant, the DREAM Act that got through the House by 216 to 198 is good news. However, it has to clear one major hurdle before it becomes law; the Senate. The bill, once it becomes law, would pave the way to US citizenship for young people, if they are under the age of 30, have been living in the US continuously for at least five years,... 

Tweet The House of Representatives cleared a bill late Wednesday, that seeks to grant legal status to hundreds of illegal immigrant students, if they enrolled in college or serve in the US military. The bill is known as the DREAM Act, Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act was first introduced in the US Senate on 1 August 2001 and was... 

Tweet Colorado state and local government officials are prepared to discuss several controversial immigration issues this week that could turn failure to carry immigration papers into a criminal offense. Starting on Monday, a collection of Republican state lawmakers titled the Republican Study Committee are scheduled to talk about the start of an immigration...