Immigration Reform News

People who didn't know a URL from an http were blithely expounding on software snags and web design, thanks to the clunky launch of healthcare.gov, the insurance marketplace for the government's big health care overhaul.

In this Dec. 4, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the new health care law during a White House Youth Summit, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington.

In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., holds up a checklist related to the preparation for the implementation of the Obamacare healthcare program, and specifically, the HealthCare.gov website, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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.