Immigration

A top American official has stated that the United States is "very open" to a new and improved relationship with Cuba.

A new bill which would create a new government bureau aimed partly at boosting Americans' adoptions of foreign orphans is getting early bipartisan support in both Congressional chambers.

Half of the nation's immigration judges are eligible for retirement in 2014, raising the possibility of further backlogs to an already backlog-plagued system.

The number is down from 409,000 in 2012. Over 1.9 million people have been deported since the president entered office in 2009.

The Grammy Award winning singer, Lila Downs, gave Latin Times an exclusive interview where she talks about her involvement towards an immigration reform in the U.S. and her struggles about growing up being Mexican-American.

The House of Representatives wrapped up their activities for the year on Friday. On Thursday, over 1,000 immigration activists staged protests on House inaction on immigration reform at the offices of over 100 lawmwakers.

The vice president blustered on Thursday during a live Internet discussion on immigration that House Republican leaders would eventually cave on a bill they have repeatedly rejected.

Vice President Biden and Cecilia Muñoz, President Obama's domestic policy advisor, are taking questions from the public on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon. Learn how to send in your queries and where to tune in live at 3:45pm EST.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was featured as the "Grinch" during a skit performed by children at a House office building on Monday, where immigration reform advocates had assembled.

An immigration reform initiative pushed forward by Rep. Joe Heck of the GOP has fallen apart after a lack of local and national support. The plan recommended legalizing a number of the so-called 'dreamers.'

Jorge Ramos visited Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" to promote his new show in Fusion, and discuss the changing face of the U.S. and the impact Hispanics are having on the country.

In a letter on Thursday, 29 House Democrats added their voices to a growing chorus -- led by immigrant advocates -- in urging the president to expand a reprieve from deportation to a greater part of the nation's estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants.

The Colorado Democrat went on a tirade on the House floor on Wednesday afternoon after Republican Speaker Pro Tempore Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) admonished representatives against acknowledging immigration advocates in the gallery.

Boston immigration judge Leonard Shapiro found that Onyango Obama, the half-brother of the president's father, was eligible for a green card because he arrived in America before 1972 and had showed "good moral character" during his time in the country.

The Senate Majority Leader told a Las Vegas newspaper that Republicans in the House of Representatives would eventually help pass a bill extending a path to citizenship for many of the nation's undocumented immigrants.

Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, grandson of the late Robert F. Kennedy, has joined the immigration reform hunger strike in Washington DC.

The New Jersey governor denied on Monday that he had merely paid lip service to the idea of young undocumented immigrants receiving in-state tuition to college and universities in the state, saying he had never supported the specifics of a bill which passed the Senate in mid-November.

During an interview last week, a White House spokesman said that President Barack Obama would not take executive action to stop deportations but would not comment on the future use of it by the president to address immigration reform.

"We received, in this past year alone...370,000 Mexicans," wrote the head of Mexico's National Migration Institute in a statement to Mexico's Congress, adding that the agency expects a rise in the number of deportees arriving in Mexico from the United States in 2014.

Heck, a Republican from Nevada, has a draft bill which would give citizenship to young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US before Dec. 31, 2011, and who were 15 or younger when they arrived.

Ten protesters outside Washington's Capitol Hill have vowed that they will spend Thanksgiving only sipping water to protest the lack of immigration reform progress in government.

First Lady Michelle Obama tweeted her support for the "Fast for Families" on Tuesday as protestors entered their 16th day of fasting for immigration reform.

A new report by the Public Religion Research Institute has found that 63 percent of Americans support an immigration bill which would lead to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

During a speech on immigration at the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center in San Francisco on Monday morning, Obama told security not to remove hecklers who interrupted him during his speech and addressed them sharply.

In an interview with ABC News' "This Week" aired on Sunday, Zuckerberg continued his push for immigration reform, saying it "needs to happen".

As the president tries to rally funds for his party in several cities on the West Coast this week, he'll continue to push House Republicans to act on immigration.

The film, whose title translates to "The Golden Cage", had previously taken home an award at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Fast for Families, the group organizing the hunger strike for immigration reform, hopes to pressure the House to vote on a comprehensive overhaul passed by the Senate in June.

A new report in the New York Times suggests that citizenship is not the central priority for undocumented immigrants. Rather, the focus for many latinos is finding a solution that will allow them peace of mind.

Boehner's comments come less than a week after he said House Republicans would "absolutely not" conference their own small immigration bills with the comprehensive overhaul passed by the Senate in June.