Immigration Reform News

U.S. Rep Mark Sanford says he would support a stronger work visa program as a way to deal with the nation's immigration issues.

The senator stands out as the leader of the Democrats' historic move to go to the "nuclear option," ending the paralysis by threat of filibuster that tied the Senate in knots for the last five years.

"This is Jack Kemp's enterprise zones on steroids," said Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, in his speech before the Detroit Economic Club.

Despite the House leadership's refusal to bring it up for a vote, a federal bill banning LGBT workplace discrimination isn't dead yet in the eyes of a South Bay congressman.

What if we elected a president, who we knew nothing about, just because it would be so historic that we elected the first president elected in the United States? What if that president had very little experience in government and very little public record to know about him from? What if we were told that candidate associated with a convicted ... (more)

In spite of his widely praised charisma and social media skills, President Obama has lost his cool factor with Millennials.

They feared Mexico would begin vacuuming up U.S. manufacturing jobs as soon as President Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, on Dec. 8, 1993.

The 1st District congressman met with members of the Lowcountry Immigration Coalition in Beaufort last month and agreed to attend one of the group's town hall meetings.

Sen. Udall >> Sen. Tom Udall visited a soup kitchen in Las Cruces. He should put his efforts into creating an environment where jobs and business could be created and grow, like fewer regulations and taxes.

Every Tuesday at Detroit Metro Airport, a large plane fills up with immigrants being deported.

Plus, Yanukovych is confident of resolving Tymoshenko problem ahead of November's EU summit, and watchdogs voice concern over the jailing of a journalist in Uzbekistan.

Eliseo Medina sits in what looks from the outside like a big, white party tent on the edge of the Mall.

"Comprehensive immigration reform" appears to be dead for this year, and it probably will remain dead until after the mid-term elections next fall.

Since Ju Hong's protest of the administration's deportation policies, the graduate student and periodic immigration protestor has gone on a media blitz, appearing on outlets from the BBC to Bay Area local news to Korean radio along with writing a Huffington Post column .

WASHINGTON, D.C. When the hunger headaches get strong, Lenka Mendoza focuses on why she is fasting and dreams of what she would do if she won the right to legally live and work in the U.S.: She would return to her home country, Peru, to hug her cancer-stricken mom.

Obamacare, for instance: Whether the new law that seeks health insurance for every American is a prudent piece of policy or an albatross of government overreach is a matter of opinion.

Now that President Obama has outlined the crisis in economic mobility, he should begin by pressing his demand that Congress raise the minimum wage - and not by a little, but a lot.

Thus far in his political career, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, has shown a natural ability to offend then befriend political opponents and allies alike.

With the presidential campaign in the rearview and no midterm elections on the table, this year's political focus was mostly on the tedium of Washington, where President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans fought a lot but accomplished very little.

The Texas affiliate of the National Education Association and other advocacy groups are staging a rally and march to issue failing grades to U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on key social and educational issues.