Immigration Reform News

The woes of a second term are nothing new, but for President Obama they seem to have started sooner and struck harder than for his predecessors.

Estakio Beltran was fresh out of college with little knowledge about politics when he packed his car and went to Washington, D.C. Then 20, Beltran doesn't know what drove him to stop by Sen. Maria Cantwell's office for a coffee break with her constituents other than his passion for speaking out on behalf of his community.

The drums of impeachment grew louder this week and, wouldn't you know it, the loudest thumping emanated from inside the White House.

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, have a bill to address conditions on the border.

This week featured a tour of Laconia, including a town hall meeting with local citizens and press.

California First Lady Anne Gust Brown and Gov. Jerry Brown speak with Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, during a luncheon at The California Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, July 23, 2014.

Almost any discussion of how the United States treats uninvited visitors - whether they be child refugees looking for shelter or adult immigrants looking for jobs - will eventually get to the point where someone asks: "What about Mexico?" This was the question put to me recently by Matt Patrick, a conservative radio host in Houston.

With one week left before Congress' August recess, President Barack Obama is prodding Republicans to help ease the influx of unaccompanied minors and migrant families from Central America, but with chances dimming that border legislation will reach his desk before the break, he also is focusing on other ways to stem the flow.

Then-Senator Barack Obama speaks to a crowd on the campaign trail and admonishes President G. W. Bush over his use of Executive Power, and the President's avoidance of Congress.

Republicans are on the offensive in the opening days of Georgia's general election Senate campaign, hammering Democrat Michelle Nunn as a rubber stamp for President Barack Obama and questioning her resume as a non-profit executive - the very experience that anchors her appeal as a moderate who gets things done without partisan wrangling.

Local law enforcement agencies in Texas, especially those along the border, have received millions more dollars from a federal grant program to help deal with the surge in illegal immigration.

European Union ambassadors have reached a preliminary deal on stepped-up sanctions against Russia, targeting its access to European capital markets and trade in the defense sector, dual-use goods and sensitive... The European Union on Friday extended its Ukraine-related sanctions to target top Russian intelligence officials and leaders of the ... (more)

Illinois Rep. Bill Foster is introducing a resolution urging the Secretary of Defense to allow undocumented immigrants to serve in the U.S. military.

In this Saturday, July 19, 2014 photo, deportee Elsa Ramirez, 27, walks with her children Sandra, 8, Cesar Ramos, 5, and her brother Elvin Ramirez to a nearby church in Tocoa, Honduras.

House Republicans are fashioning a scaled-down bill to address the southern border crisis that would provide less than $1 billion and include an immigration policy change that most Democrats strongly oppose.

However, millions of low-income families would lose the $1,000-a-child credit in 2018, when enhancements championed by President Barack Obama are set to expire.

A nonprofit organization based in Kansas that focuses on immigrant rights says it plans to travel to Oklahoma and protest the housing of unaccompanied minors at Fort Sill.

It is one of several plans under review to deter Central American kids from making the difficult and dangerous journey to the Southwest border, White House officials said Thursday.

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is urging his fellow Republicans to show "compassion" for the children from Central America who have crossed the border illegally, but not to use the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border to become "an excuse to defer comprehensive immigration reform."

California's attorney general said Thursday she is helping secure lawyers to represent minors from Central America during immigration hearings.