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.

The biggest increases occurred in counties in Texas, which accounts for more than half of apprehensions. Its Rio Grande Valley is one of the most high-traffic areas along the US-Mexico border.

Fox news is under fire for the use of offensive language. In a recent report, the news channel dubbed U.S. citizens with undocumented parents “children of the corn” while also using phrases like “alien nation.”

The Pew Center says numbers of undocumented immigrants in the United States are increasing again after they took a dip with US economy. Those numbers leaped throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Lawmakers debating what the government should do to keep those numbers down might take note of a 2007 paper pointing to border enforcement as a major reason for the rise.

Maria and Mauro Bilbao told Univision they felt despair upon hearing the news that the House Gang of Seven on immigration had disbanded, but that they took it as proof that Republicans weren't serious about resolving the status of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

The California legislature has approved the bill, which for years faced staunch opposition. Governor Jerry Brown has said he’ll sign it.

"I believe that slavery is not abolished," said reverend Erick Salgado at a New York City mayoral debate on Wednesday night. "Slavery has been transferred to my people."

Did the Honduras Factory workers choose to wear diapers?

Hispanic children have a more difficult time in school than children of other immigrants.

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.”

The nation’s immigration system is “broken”, according to just about everyone. Why are 4.4 million documented immigrants still waiting for permanent residency?

Mexican grandmother Lucia Angulo has entered the United States illegally so often over the past three decades that she has lost count of how many times border patrols caught her.

TIME Magazine's editors are preparing to choose its Person of the Year and have created a shortlist of candidates that they will choose from.

Latinos, African-Americans and other minorities who helped President Barack Obama win a second term are skeptical about enhanced Republican outreach to their communities, but also say the future of the coalition that shaped the 2012 election may be fragile.

Carlos Roa celebrated this summer when the Obama administration announced a new program to defer deportation for young undocumented immigrants.

Researchers have found that the large influx of Asian and Latino immigrants into Southern California over the past 50 years has resulted in stronger and safer multicultural communities.

Teachers and schools that value diversity have a big impact on the academic experiences of Latino immigrant children living in predominantly white communities, according to researchers at the University of Kentucky.

Sociologists at The Johns Hopkins University have concluded that children of immigrants are outperforming children whose family trees have deeper roots in the United States, learning more in school and then making smoother transitions into adulthood.

Nearly two weeks after California's State Senate voted to allow its almost 450,000 undocumented immigrants, mostly Latinos, to soon be able to apply for drivers licenses, Los Angeles officials are considering a plan to turn the library card into a form of identification that could be used to open bank accounts and access an array of city services.

Nearly 450,000 undocumented immigrants, mostly Latinos, in California might soon be able to apply for drivers licenses.

The Obama administration's new policy to grant temporary legal status to millions of young illegal immigrants will end the immediate threat of deportation but may not give them the same privileges as legal residents.

Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer, in yet another clash with the White House, issued an order on Wednesday barring illegal immigrants who qualify for temporary legal status in the United States from receiving any state or local public benefits.

Marlon Morraz, 19, an undocumented immigrant from Nicaragua, wasted no time to sign up for temporary legal status in the United States under the Obama administration's relaxed deportation rules that took effect on Wednesday.