A month ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent letters to 652 businesses across the country to let them know their hiring records would be audited “to determine whether or not they are complying with employment eligibility verification laws and regulations.”…
Immigrants in a Louisiana detention center began a hunger strike this week to protest the dismal conditions in which they say they are being held. The detainees’ decision comes in the same week that two new reports –by the Inter-American Commission…
NEW YORK — More than 30 immigrants and immigrant advocates demonstrated on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Wednesday to protest U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano as she visited the Council on Foreign Relations. Napolitano was in New York to announce…
While New York immigration advocates demonstrated Wednesday against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, evidence kept piling up that the U.S. government is violating the rights of immigrants in detention. Immigrants in some detentions centers in Texas and Arizona are held in…
NEW YORK — Local immigration activists plan to demonstrate against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano Wednesday morning when she comes to the city to deliver a speech on terrorism, in what may be the first significant protest by…
A change in policy spearheaded by the Obama administration toward victims of domestic violence seeking asylum in the U.S. has anti-domestic violence and immigrant advocates cautiously celebrating. It’s one of a series of actions by the administration that suggest a…
President Barack Obama is again insisting on keeping the pressure on Congress to pass immigration reform… on Spanish-language media. Obama, in a conference call with Hispanic broadcasters Friday, said he hopes a comprehensive immigration reform bill will take shape by…
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor With the end of Senate hearings Thursday, Spanish-language media are taking Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as a given — and Puerto Ricans in New York and elsewhere are getting ready to…
By Maibe Gonzalez Fuentes, FI2W contributor After six years of stalled negotiations, the U.S. and Cuba have started talking again about immigration issues affecting the two countries. A meeting held Tuesday at UN headquarters in New York City is the…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Sonia Sotomayor has gone from virtually unknown to a symbol of national pride for Puerto Ricans after her nomination by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court. “This has been a major event in…