by Dima Ansari | Aug 12, 2014 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — With the number of child migrants ballooning, an analysis of their hometowns released Monday indicates they come from the largest and most violent cities in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.The new study by the Inter-American Dialogue, a...
by Rose Zhou | Aug 11, 2014 | Immigration
The Migration Policy Institute reports that in the past two years of the Deferred Action Program, more than half of the undocumented immigrants under age 30 who arrived in the U.S. before they were 16 registered for temporary legal status. But hundreds of thousands of...
by Rose Zhou | Jul 31, 2014 | Immigration
With the unsettled border crisis still looming, the window for Congress to act on immigration is dwindling before a five-week break. Young immigrants are continuing to call on President Barack Obama to use executive authority to help solve the crisis, while the...
by Dima Ansari | Jul 24, 2014 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Cornyn said Wednesday he supports “Operation Coyote” – the federal government’s concerted effort to nab human smugglers at the U.S.-Mexican border. “Operation Coyote is a welcome effort to round up the vile criminals who smuggle children and...
by Lindsey Holden | Jul 21, 2014 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday grilled Obama administration officials on whether they have a plan to improve conditions in Central America to stem the flood of children from those countries illegally crossing into the United...
by Rose Zhou | Jul 21, 2014 | Immigration
With Congress scrambling to pass a $3.7 billion emergency fund to help cope with the ongoing southern border immigration crisis, experts from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think-tank, emphasize the importance of increased spending on immigration...
