The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, a nonprofit advocacy group that worked with Gov. Blagojevich to craft the executive order, has played a lead role in fostering integration initiatives in other states. Read more…

We were represented by a team as diverse as our nation is, and our Team USA was not divided by skin color, last name, religion, native language, country of origin or English proficiency. Instead for this moment it represented all the united skill, spirit, talent and determination that define America. Read more…

With a fanfare of news conferences and Spanish-language television and newspaper ads, U.S. authorities last week started giving 457,000 illegal immigrants a chance to turn themselves in without the usual threat of arrest and detention.Three accepted.

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Three narrowly targeted reforms could ease the green-card problem while helping the economy. Read more…

Homeland Security has come up with a new idea to solve the issue of illegal immigration.

They are simply saying: Go home. Read more…

Starting next week, a new pilot program will allow illegal immigrants who have ignored deportation orders to turn themselves in without being arrested. Read more…

OUR next president faces a formidable task. He will be forced to deal with two difficult wars, an economic downturn, higher energy prices and a bankrupt federal immigration policy. Read more…

WASHINGTON — A report Wednesday indicating a sharp decline in the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security has a new strategy to help deal with illegal immigration: self-deportation. Read more…

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee announced an “unprecedented” $20 million joint outreach effort today to mobilize Hispanic voters heading in to the fall. Read more…