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 Department of Homeland Security has given the nine young undocumented immigrants who left the United States for Mexico, their land of birth, and staged a protest at an Arizona border crossing upon trying to re-enter, what the Associated Press called a “tentative” approval of their asylum requests.

FWD.us, Zuckerberg's lobbying group, has engaged in tactics which have caused the exodus of its most progressive members and organization affiliates.

In an interview with the Huffington Post published on Monday, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) struck a typically upbeat note with regard to the chances of immigration reform in 2013.

Ken Cuccinelli changes views on immigration, says he is against a path to citizenship.

Charlie Rangel, the Harlem native and longtime House Democrat from New York’s 13th congressional district, weighed in on immigration reform during a blunt and sometimes profane interview with the Daily Beast.

Are Mexican and U.S. economic systems dependent on each other? Latin Times takes a look at the economic relationship between the two nations that has been shaped by 1994 trade agreement NAFTA.

Brave New Films, an old GOP media adversary, has created a new video skewering three Republican representatives using clips from the 1986 comedy "Three Amigos".

The liberal Super PAC pulled a fast one on Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) when he embedded their YouTube clip of his remarks in which he compared evaluating immigrants to decide who would be allowed in the United States to picking a good hunting dog.

Immigration reform groups call for Steve King being dropped from immigration committee.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday morning that over 100 major donors to the Republican Party, some of them prominent names, signed a letter to Republican members of Congress urging them to pass immigration reform which would give legal status to the undocumented and secure the borders.

Durbin (D-Ill.), one of the members of the Senate Gang of Eight which crafted a comprehensive reform bill, and Harkin (D-Iowa), the senator from Rep. Steve King's home state, are holding an immigration reform in King's district in response to incendiary comments made by the Iowa representative on young undocumented immigrants.

The Facebook CEO’s political advocacy group Fwd.us is sponsoring the August 5 premiere in San Francisco of the documentary “Documented”, which deals with the life of the journalist and film’s creator Jose Antonio Vargas, who is an undocumented immigrant.

In his remarks on Thursday on the House floor, Iowa representative Steve King spent several minutes outlining a rough – and roughly factual – history of Mosaic law, Greek and Roman civilization, censorship and the Constitution in defending comments about young undocumented immigrants that have been broadly derided as offensive.

In response to a remark made by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) that many young undocumented immigrants had "calves the size of cantaloupes" from smuggling heavy loads of drugs across the border, DREAMers showed up at King's office with gifts of cantaloupes on Thursday.

Several Republicans on a Senate committee are refusing to attend hearings on whether or not to confirm Mayorkas for the Homeland Security post, in a boycott of the president’s nomination.

A poll carried out in late June by the conservative American Action Network found that most voters in Iowa’s Fourth Congressional District disagree with their representative, Steve King, on immigration reform. King has been the most strenuous voice of opposition to bipartisan efforts on the issue. This week, the leaders of his own party rebuked him for saying that most young undocumented immigrants were drug mules.

A group of 20 pro-immigration reform lawmakers from the House and Senate are touring immigration-related sites in New York City this weekend. The trip includes a meeting with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the Gracie Mansion and a stop at Ellis Island.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) distanced themselves from comments made by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to Newsmax last week about DREAMers.

The number of unaccompanied minors has shot up since 2008. Over 13,000 of them were Mexicans, according to a report by Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Data from the Pew Center suggests that much of the remaining number were Central Americans.

A senior White House aide denounced the "Kids Act" -- a GOP bill which could extend legal status and eventually citizenship to young undocumented immigrants but providing nothing for their parents -- in a Twitter post on Tuesday morning.

The House Judiciary Committee will contemplate a bill which would offer a path to citizenship for young people brought to the US illegally when they were children.

The Republican representative from Iowa will make a rare appearance on Univision’s “Al Punto Con Jorge Ramos” this Sunday. Advance transcripts indicate Ramos will confront King on his stance regarding the legal status of the nation’s estimated 11 million undocumented as well as his comments comparing immigrants to dogs.

Vice President Joe Biden chimed in on the debate over immigration reform on Friday after a meeting with law enforcement officials, saying the issue was really “a public safety issue writ large.”

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."

The month-long August Congressional recess is expected to be a busy one for supporters of comprehensive immigration reform, who hope to use the month to bear down hard on House Republicans who have thus far dragged their feet on the issue.

“I’m making this video from Mexico. I know it’s going to sound a little crazy, and to be honest, I still can’t believe that I’m here. It’s surreal,” says Lizbeth Mateo in a video posted on the Facebook page of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance. Mateo and the two other activists will try to re-enter the United States on Monday.

The House "Gang of Seven" comprehensive immigration reform plan would grant "probation" to the undocumented and require them to admit their guilt in having broken US law.

"These children were brought here of no accord of their own, and frankly they're in a very difficult position," said House Speaker Boehner (R-Ohio) at a press conference. Details on the bill have not been released, but it could set up a showdown between House Republicans and advocates of a path to citizenship for a much larger group of undocumented immigrants.