Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Roselló is stepping down after days of massive demonstrations over crude and offensive jokes he and his buddies made in secret chats. He will leave his post on Aug. 2, he said late Wednesday in a video message broadcast on Facebook.
Tens of thousands of Guatemalans have been migrating to the US in recent months. Even more would likely be trekking north were it not for the billions of dollars those who already made it send back home every year.
Since he learned of the secret chat Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Roselló and his buddies used to share privileged government information and crack sexist and homophobic jokes, Alexis Santos couldn’t sleep. Last week, the PennState professor cancelled meetings and bought a last-minute ticket to San Juan to join his fellow Puerto Ricans in the massive protests against Roselló in person.
Most Republicans in the US have steered clear of commenting on the “go back to your country” ugliness perpetrated by Donald Trump. In Texas, that may not be the savviest political calculation.
In recent days, Americans learned that their government has been jailing immigrant children in dismal conditions, and that in private, the Border Patrol agents charged with taking care of them cracked cruel and racist jokes. The heartbreaking image of a father and toddler drowned in the Rio Grande, meanwhile, reminded them of the ever growing immigrant death toll.
As US authorities plan nationwide raids targeting thousands of immigrants on Sunday, advocates and sympathizers say there are a variety of ways they can help the undocumented avoid getting caught up in the federal action—and support those who do get ensnared.
This week patrons at Chacho’s Tex-Mex restaurant in San Antonio, got a taste of how dreary existence would be without avocados.
The American flag is a potent image, a symbol that triggers strong feelings around the world, both positive and negative.
Residents of Guadalajara got a reprieve from the summer heat after a storm covered parts of the Mexican city in a thick blanket of hail.
The two Democratic candidates from Texas sparred over an obscure part of the US Code during the first primary debate this week.
Democrats vying for the US presidency held their first debate tonight. Part of it was in Spanish.
Highlights, the decades-old children’s magazine, took a break Wednesday from tweeting about summer fun to speak out on a far darker topic: immigrant detention.
Workers from online home goods retailer Wayfair are walking out today to protest their employer’s sale of beds to an immigrant detention center.
Venezuela is not at war, yet it’s starting to look like Syria based on the exodus of people fleeing the country.
For years the world could count on the US to permanently welcome the largest number of refugees. Not anymore.
The number of people fleeing their countries reached a record high of 25.5 million in 2018, the United Nations’ refugee agency said this week.
US immigration hawks have long complained that undocumented workers take Americans’ jobs and lower wages.
The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States is shrinking as many of them leave and fewer arrive. Those who do stay in country, though are staying for longer than ever.
Texas is a border state where many voters are worried about immigration. Mexico is also by far its biggest trading parter.
For much of their history as independent countries, the United States and Mexico have been at odds, if not at war.
For years Americans have looked at how many people border patrol agents catch as an indicator of undocumented immigration.
It’s unclear whether US president Donald Trump’s unconventional proposal to use tariffs to stop immigration from Mexico would work. What is more certain is it would hurt the US economy, according to a new study by a Texas-based economic research firm.
For America, it seems, this is a year of reckoning on the issue of abortion.
Not much has changed about Washington, DC’s decades-long fixation with illegal immigration—or its inability to do something about it. The profile of immigrants themselves, however, has shifted dramatically.
