The suit, filed in Alabama\'s Northern District, marks the second time the Obama administration has sought to block a state immigration reform law. Last year, the Justice Department filed a similar challenge to Arizona\'s controversial SB 1070. A federal judge decided to temporarily block key parts of that law, including a provision that would have required police to determine suspects\' immigration status.

This guy openly supports illegal aliens. I’ve been watching him on the news for years. Tonight he’s totally in the face of Teresa Bassett who published a list of illegal aliens. He kept saying, “you know you are a felon right!”.

The contest between the political parties for the Latino vote in the 2012 election is now well underway. It started in May when President Obama went to El Paso with a suitcase full of contradictions. Posing in front of a border wall, he assured a largely Latino crowd that he was enforcing immigration laws that require illegal immigrants to be deported while still committed to changing those laws so that more of them could stay.

SANTA FE - After seven months in office, Gov. Susana Martinez is about to enter the national spotlight for a policy decision on the explosive issue of immigration. Martinez, a Republican, is in the midst of ordering 10,000 people to appear in Albuquerque to document that they are New Mexico residents. Some of them are illegal immigrants. Others could be U.S. citizens. All are in a pool that the state Motor Vehicle Division refers to as its database of \"foreign national\" drivers.

A few days earlier we had snuck into Mexico without a visa. Before we left India, we had approached the embassy in Delhi which said our passports needed to go to Mexico City and it could take weeks. With only two months to go, it seemed uncertain if we would get our passports back in time, and we didn\'t want to jeopardise the rest of our trip. Indian friends in the US said they routinely got their visas at the border crossing. What works for them ought to work for us, we thought.

How should the American people treat a population which only has a marginal economic impact yet still manages to stimulate job growth and consumption in the country? The presumed answer is sadly far from the reality of how America behaves towards “illegal immigrants.”

To lots of people — human and civil rights advocates in particular — there\'s something inherently objectionable about the private prison industry. Companies that make money by constructing and operating detention centers essentially turn a profit on high crime rates, harsh penalties for offenders and the ideological crusade against illegal immigrants. It\'s a consummate example of what leftist social critic Noam Chomsky calls \"profit over people.\"

On Friday the Democratic National Committee launched its first presidential ad of the 2012 cycle, and it was in Spanish. In preparation for the 2012 presidential election, it seems both Democrats and Republicans have begun reaching out early to a coveted voting bloc: Los Independiente.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Hispanic families accounted for the largest single decline in wealth of any ethnic and racial group in the country during the recession, according to a study published Tuesday by the Pew Foundation.

President Barack Obama on Monday sought to mend a growing rift with Hispanics over the lack of progress on immigration reform and other key issues, telling a national Latino conference, “I will keep up this fight.” “This is a city where ‘compromise’ is becoming a dirty word, where there’s more political upside in doing what’s easier for reelection [and] what’s easier for an attack ad than what’s best for the country,” Obama told the National Council of La Raza, a prominent Hispanic civil rights group, at its annual conference.

President Obama courted the vote-rich Latino community Monday and urged activists to build a national movement to pressure Republicans to overhaul the nation\'s broken immigration laws.

On Monday, President Barack Obama will make a luncheon speech at the National Conference of La Raza’s (NCLR) annual conference in Washington, DC. While most of the political class is mesmerized by the debt ceiling negotiations, millions of Latinos will be focused on what the president says -- or doesn’t say -- about immigration reform.

A Guatemalan man who lost his son to cancer and was facing deportation after being arrested for allegedly using false documents has been freed from the Utah County Jail without having to post bail, his attorney said Thursday. Barbara Melendez, a Salt Lake City-based immigration attorney who is defending Rogelio Melgar, said when her client arrived at his family’s Orem apartment Wednesday, it was “a joyful and tear-filled reunion.”

Attorney General Mark Shurtleff’s office says in court documents that a federal court injunction sought against the state’s enforcement-only immigration law should be denied outright. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of several undocumented immigrants and the Utah Coalition of La Raza by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center, charges Utah’s HB497 encourages racial profiling and violates the civil rights of undocumented immigrants as well as citizens.

The American Civil Liberties Union plans to sue the Salt Lake County Jail, saying it has been illegally holding inmates suspected of being undocumented immigrants. The jail has a policy of keeping inmates who have posted bail or who otherwise can be released so federal agents can check their immigration status. The ACLU says that violates the inmates’ due process rights. Darcy Goddard, legal director of the ACLU of Utah, said her organization will file its lawsuit next week in federal court.