The Colorado Compact may help bridge the gap between the Republican Party and Hispanic voters. Sen. Michael Bennet (Dem), former Sen. Hank Brown (Rep), along with multiple community and business leaders, announced at the University of Denver that they had…

Numerous U.S.-based companies are publically stating that they hope the Obama administration will turn its focus to immigration reform. Large companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft have openly called for the H-1B visa program, pushing highly-skilled foreign-born workers, and…

The 2012 Presidential election has put into sharp focus how important comprehensive immigration reform is to the U.S. Latino population. The Republican party, critics say, must now reexamine how the party will approach immigration reform if they want to retain…

Immigration policy as at the forefront of the news right now, in large part due to the upcoming presidential election. But the debate over immigration policy is old news in Washington: immigration reform law adopted under then-President Ronald Reagan in…

In Los Angeles, a city council committee is considering a plan pushed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to require photo-identification cards for immigrants. Villaraigosa says that the cards are official IDs for those who want to use banking services. Those critical…

A report generated by the number of calls to a hotline hosted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, was released by the National Immigration Law Center, listing complaints of bullying, discrimination, and racial profiling in Alabama. The report, Alabama’s Shame:…

In July, a self-proclaimed “immigration enforcement activist” D.A. King filed a complaint with the Georgia Immigration Enforcement Review Board regarding the immigration status of workers. King has accused more than 1,200 different government agencies in Georgia of not adequately providing…

The Department of Labor (DOL) has been auditing the process for submitting Labor Certifications, called Program Electronic Review Management (PERM). Of a reported more than 20,000 PERM petitions filed since October of last year, approximately 29 percent were chosen at…

This past July, Less President Obama halted the deportation proceedings for a number of undocumented immigrants and granted them temporary work permits. Called the “DREAMers,” these undocumented people are slated to benefit under the DREAM Act, which would allow the…

The PERM labor certification process is almost more of a mess than immigration reform. Many of the mandatory requirements do not make sense. Even trying to wade your way through the PERM labor certification process is guaranteed to create a…