With just 33 working days remaining until Congress goes into recess on July 4th, one Democrat in the House of Representatives attempted a new method of getting Congressional members to vote on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform. Representative Tony Cardenas used the House Budget mark-up session for Representative Paul Ryan’s House Republican budget plan […]

For two months after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals created by President Barack Obama was passed into law, back in 2012, immigrants were forced to register to be protected with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement rather than the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.  Those immigrants who are eligible are now able to have

Mexico has broken its silence on the debate over immigration reform taking place in the United States, saying that “Walls aren’t the solution.”  Lawmakers in the US are contemplating extending the border fence as one of the additional security measures that accompanies plans to offer legal status to over 11 million undocumented immigrants, the great

Last Wednesday United States Senator Patrick Leahy proposed legislation that would enable US citizens to sponsor same sex partners in their application for a green card.  The same sex rights when it comes to immigration reform have also been backed by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, and President Barack Obama.  In the Senate

Republican members of Congress are getting hot under the collar about the announcement by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services that up to 34 million new green cards are to be ordered. The Republicans believe that President Obama is intending to take extreme measures when he fulfills his promise to enact immigration reform via

Eric Cantor, the House majority leader who lost his seat in a shock Republican primary result in Virginia last week, has defended his opinions on the revision of immigration laws in the United States while acknowledging that his position angered a lot of people on both sides of the political fence. Cantor, who will be

Eric Cantor, the majority leader of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, lost his primary on Tuesday.  Cantor lost to economics professor Dave Brat in what was a very unexpected upset.  Cantor had straddled the fence on the issue of immigration reform, leading both sides of the debate to label him indecisive. Cantor had made several

Officers from US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) have arrested no less than 314 criminal immigrants in the state of Florida during an enforcement action targeting undocumented immigrants who pose a serious danger to public safety. The operation, which was carried out in September, saw arrests being made across the state by ICE Enforcement and