Citizenship

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The Communist government of Nicaragua has stripped 94 dissidents of their citizenship.

An undocumented Mexican national from Marion County has been nabbed by police on Thursday after tricking police into reporting that she had been kidnapped and raped so she could lawfully remain in the United States.

The Supreme Court has ruled against President Barack Obama's Immigration Reform plan, sources revealed on Thursday.

Diego Cruz Alonso, one of the four young men being charged in the rape of teen Daphne Fernández, was arrested in Spain last Friday. Recent reports suggest he could ask fro asylum due to his dual citizenship.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Constitution protects the right of LGBT couples to marry; pro-immigrant and other Latino organizations welcomed the decision.

Stakes are especially high for LGBT immigrants in marriage equality case in front of the Supreme Court

Under the delayed plan, Dreamers who received DACA and who are deemed to be in possession of "vital" skills could enlist in the military and eventually receive citizenship.

Protesters in Washington D.C. are stepping up pressure on President Barack Obama and members of Congress to halt deportations.

Biden is heading to Chile on Sunday and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday. On the agenda are Venezuelan protests and a Dominican citizenship law widely seen as discriminatory.

Senator Adriano Espaillat who represents parts of Upper Manhattan and the Bronx reacted to the President's State of the Union address.

Various House Democrats will be bringing undocumented immigrants as their invited guests to the State of the Union Address in Washington.

The third-ranking Republican in the House says he thinks undocumented immigrants should get legal status but no special pathway to citizenship, days before the House GOP is expected to release an outline of what they want to see in immigration reform.

The novelist called attacks on him "bulls**t" and derided the "clowns in power in the DR" in a response to a open letter from a group of Dominican authors which called into question Diaz's "Dominican-ness" and accused him of not knowing what he was talking about in criticizing the Dominican Supreme Court's recent ruling.

Heck, a Republican from Nevada, has a draft bill which would give citizenship to young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US before Dec. 31, 2011, and who were 15 or younger when they arrived.

A new report in the New York Times suggests that citizenship is not the central priority for undocumented immigrants. Rather, the focus for many latinos is finding a solution that will allow them peace of mind.

The Dominican Supreme Court’s September ruling which stripped some 200,000 Dominicans of their citizenship is having unintended consequences.

The Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic handed down a landmark ruling on Wednesday which denies the Dominican nationality to children born in the country whose parents are undocumented immigrants who entered the country illegally or are in transit.

Saldana Iracheta says he was deported four times and spent almost two years in a detention center because of legal decisions based on an article of the Mexican Constitution that doesn't even exist.

Days after President Barack Obama called a piecemeal approach on immigration “acceptable”, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said his committee was busy crafting four immigration bills in addition to the four it has already approved. But what might they propose for one of Obama’s priorities – a path to citizenship for the nation’s undocumented immigrants?

Sunday, September 8 marks the beginning of a coordinated effort from Catholic dioceses to push for immigration reform both in churches and with Congressmen.

The organizers of the “National Day for Dignity and Respect” say they “won” the August Congressional recess, and look to keep the pressure for immigration reform on lawmakers who’ve got the budget and Syria on their minds.

The question of whether or not lawmakers should pass legislation with a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants is looking like it could down the chances of a bipartisan bill on immigration reform. One analyst thinks he’s got a compromise which would please all parties involved.

The offer of a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants – whether it’s just the young ones or adults too – has been looking more and more like the final line which House Republicans won’t cross in immigration reform legislation. On Tuesday, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) signaled that he might get on board with a bill that offered legal status without citizenship, while adding that he remained hopeful that House Republicans wouldn’t “absolutely reject” a path to citizenship.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he’ll do everything in his power to make sure the lower chamber of Congress never considers the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill – a piece of legislation which would extend a 13-year path to citizenship for about 8 million of the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants.

In a statement on Monday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote that he would renounce his Canadian citizenship because he didn’t think it befitting of a senator to have citizenship in more than one country. Cruz was born in Canada but left when he was 4.

A trend of visa fraud in the United States has seen citizenship-seekers from various countries pretending to be Cuban in order to secure the unique immigration privileges afforded them.

The Arizona senator says the "border surge" amendment in the Senate bill could be amended in a House compromise, but the path to citizenship is not negotiable.

In an interview with the Daily Caller on Thursday, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said he would likely support a limited “amnesty” for certain undocumented immigrants if the US-Mexico border were appropriately impenetrable, but added that he was “reluctant to say that amnesty is a possibility because I am not very confident about the probability of getting to that point. We haven’t seen a president that can do this in my adult lifetime.”

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and former Mitt Romney running mate told a North Dakota radio station on Thursday the GOP doesn't want to "push people into citizenship". He added, "Most people just want to have a legal status so they can work to provide for their families."