On August 15, the first of perhaps a million or more people who qualify for the DREAM Act will begin stepping forward to apply and pay fees for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
In two weeks, around 1 million people who were brought into the country illegally as children can begin applying for temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. under a directive aimed at DREAM Act students.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) is willing to support a "Dream Act"-style bill from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) even if it's "watered-down" and doesn't give a path to citizenship.
To many supporters of immigration reform, Obama has been a major disappointment. Still, for many others pushing to provide a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants, Obama is the only choice in this year's election.
A key Democratic congressman said Wednesday that he was encouraged by a meeting with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) over his plan to introduce a pared-down version of the DREAM Act.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez used Mitt Romney's own words about SB 1070 against him and showed that it is a "model" for America.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) mocked former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on the House floor Thursday for his statements on abortion rights.
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) took to the floor of the House to address former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's recent custom of calling President Obama the "Food Stamp President."
The best of Congress is to be found far from the polarized, dysfunctional politics on Capitol Hill in a year when the American people have given Congress the lowest approval ratings in the history of polling.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus slammed Republicans on Tuesday for blocking President Obama’s nomination of the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, and cast it as an attack on the Latino community
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) urged the Hispanic community in South Carolina to join forces to fight law SB 20, which allows authorities to question the immigration status of people detained in routine traffic stops if there is a "reasonable suspicion" that they might be undocumented.
El Gallito manages to take the moral high-ground, while also referring to his opponent as a “buffoon.” That’s definitely some rooster-like crowing from Gutierrez.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday about how Georgia’s political people were expressing outrage with the new policy that puts those students and spouses at the bottom of the priority list of non-citizens who ought to have to worry about being removed by force from the United States.
In petitions brought before Congress much attention is given on a variety of political issues but not on the central issue facing the Island of Puerto Rico, a skyrocketing murder rate.