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Erika Andiola is one of the undocumented youth who was featured on the Time Magazine cover in June. (Courtesy Steve Pavey)

“Undocumented immigrants” up for Time Magazine person of the year

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Time Magazine is set to unveil their Person of the Year 2012, and despite a year in which Latinos rose in prominence and coverage, undocumented immigrants in … Read More

Dreamers still face an uphill battle to be able to pay for college without access to in-state tuition. (Photo Courtesy Michele Rudy)

With Romney gone, more Dreamers apply for deferred action

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When President Obama announced his executive order Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which would give work visas to eligible undocumented youth, or … Read More

Senator Gutierrez ‘introduces’ Latino voters to the GOP

Congressman Gutierrez “introduces” Latino voters to the GOP

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Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to "introduce" the Republican Party to Latinos as a way of underscoring the … Read More

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Opinion: Attention immigration “allies” — stop silencing DREAMers

By Juan Escalante, DREAMActivist.org

Note: This is a response to Tuesday's hot-button Opinion piece by NBC Latino contributor Stephen A. Nuño, DREAM On: Immigration reform should not focus on … Read More

Angy Rivera, 22, at her home in the Queens borough of New York. If she is no longer undocumented, Angy wonders if she can remain a leader in an organization where a core belief is that all decisions, big and small, are made by young people living here illegally on behalf of those living here illegally? (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Formerly undocumented Latina, now fearless, ponders limitless future

By Helen O'Neil, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- Angy Rivera glided through the airport as though she owned it, giddy with excitement at her brave new world. Then she saw the security … Read More

Jose Luis Aguiluz 23 years old from Honduras campaigning for Dream Act question 4, talking to students soliciting support at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, MD on October, 2012. Aguiluz is not eligible to benefit from the Maryland Dream act but his youngest brother is. (Photo by Juana Arias for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Md. version of the DREAM Act up for popular vote

By Brian Witte, Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland could become the first state in the nation to decide by popular vote that undocumented immigrants can be eligible for in-state … Read More

Pedro Rios came to the United States from Mexico as an undocumented immigrant and now opposes the DREAM Act, which would provide a path towards citizenship to undocumented youth.

Opinion: The twilight zone tale of a formerly undocumented GOP candidate who opposes the DREAM Act

By Julio Ricardo Varela

This column, like most of the columns I write, came from Twitter this morning. #GOP Assembly candidate's illegal entry becomes campaign fodder bit.ly/SqcxdE … Read More

Protesters march against Arizona's illegal immigration law, SB1070, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, in Phoenix.

Decision 2012: Why immigration matters

By Alicia A. Cadwell, Associated Press

The issue: Illegal immigration is a decades-old problem. With an estimated 11.5 million undocumented immigrants living, and in many cases working, in the … Read More

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Opinion: Hispanics lured by the DREAM of Obama

By Esther J. Cepeda

CHICAGO -- It's become pretty clear that many Hispanics are lining up to support President Obama in his quest to stay in the White House. A recent Associated … Read More

Aida Castillo places a sticker on her blouse indicating that she had voted during the early voting period, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, in Las Vegas. In the heavily-Hispanic neighborhoods of Las Vegas, unemployment is high and home values are down. But President Barack Obama's immigration stand has locked in support from a fast-growing demographic group that has been trending sharply Democratic in the wake of increasingly hard-line Republican positions on immigration. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Obama immigration stance locks in Hispanic support

By Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Elizabeth Alvisar is exactly the sort of voter Mitt Romney needs. A victim of the brutal economy in this swing state, the 30-year-old tax … Read More