Posted on · From the temporarily delayed Senate Bill 4 , which cracks down on "sanctuary cities," to the decision to wind down a program that gives work permits to...
Posted on · House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urged President Trump to tweet reassurances to the immigrants who benefit from DACA, and the president obliged.
Posted on · Houston bills itself the most diverse big city in America. A quarter of the population was born outside of the U.S. – and a third of that number is...
Posted on · Local immigration groups say ending DACA will affect nearly 70,000 people in Greater Houston, many of them still trying to recover from Hurricane Harvey.
Posted on · "This is something that Congress has to fix."
Posted on · One of the most recent cases is Santiago Leyva, who was apprehended by ICE agents last month at his apartment complex.
Posted on · The discovery comes three weeks after 10 people died in a sweltering rig parked at a Walmart in San Antonio.
Posted on · Guatemalan diplomat Cristy Andrino says that the 19-year-old Guatemalan had been deported and was on his way back to Maryland to rejoin his family.
Posted on · "It's like any other business: the more they move, the more profit they make," said Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Posted on · Parishes and communities with large populations of immigrants in the U.S. illegally have reported slightly lower attendance on Sundays, or significant drop-offs in attendance. Because of this, Pastors have begun to conduct weekly meetings by telephone with people who are afraid or unable to go to church.
Posted on · Fully end an Obama-era immigration program or we'll see you in court, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told the Trump administration.
Posted on · (Above: Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum. (Photo Courtesy: NIF/Ali-Noorani.com) As executive director of the National Immigration Forum, Ali Noorani advocates for the value of immigrants and immigration. That’s not an easy job these days amid debate over so-called “sanctuary cities” and the 287(g) program, the Trump Administration’s plans for a border […]
Posted on · Border crossers, farm laborers, new arrivals from Mexico: There's no shortage of stereotypes about people living in the U.S. illegally. But the statistics tell a different story.
Posted on · Last week (Dec. 12, 2016), Mayor Sylvester Turner announced he was creating an Office of New Americans and Immigrant Communities for the City of Houston. Mayor Turner said goal is to “improve access to city services for all Houstonians.” And the mayor said the office will work as an information source for Houston’s large immigrant […]
Posted on · The stories of a city’s food are the stories of its humanity. As Houston food writer David Leftwich writes in a recent article, if you learn how a city eats, how it feeds itself year after year, then you’ll learn how it lives, its history and the stories of the hidden bonds that connect its citizens […]