WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said there would be no chance for immigration reform in the next two years if President Barack Obama takes executive action on the issue. But he didn't make any promises that reform will necessarily happen if Obama refrains from acting on his own.

WASHINGTON -- As Republicans threaten that executive action on immigration could blow up the chances of passing legislation, a bipartisan group of pro-reform politicians urged them to move forward on a bill anyway.

Three members of the Bipartisan Policy Center's immigration task force -- Former Mississippi Gov....

WASHINGTON -- Democrats didn't do enough to get Latinos out to vote, to their own peril in states like Colorado, pollsters and immigration reform advocates said on Wednesday.

Tuesday's elections saw major losses for Democrats, who lost seats in the House and their majority control of the Senate. Most...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama showed no signs of backing down from executive action on immigration reform on Wednesday, despite a Republican wave that ripped control of the U.S. Senate away from Democrats the night before.

"Before the end of the year, we're going to take whatever lawful actions that...

WASHINGTON -- When CNN announced on Tuesday evening that Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall lost, about 25 young undocumented immigrants and pro-immigration reform advocates in a row house in Washington, D.C., groaned in unison.

They were gathered to watch a live stream of the election results, eat pizza and tacos,...

WASHINGTON -- Immigration remains a top issue for many Latino voters, and a personal one for those who know an undocumented immigrant, according to polling released on Tuesday by Latino Decisions.

The "election eve" poll of nearly 5,000 Latino voters found that two-thirds said immigration was...

WASHINGTON -- A strong majority of Americans want Congress to address immigration next year, and most think the topic has received too little attention from candidates in the midterm elections, according to a HuffPost/YouGov poll released Monday.

The poll found that 44 percent of likely voters said...

AURORA, Colorado -- Leo Murrieta, a 28-year-old national field director for the Latino advocacy group Mi Familia Vota, gathered with a dozen or so canvassers around a conference table on Monday to get them ready to go out into the Denver suburb and talk to people about voting.

There...

DENVER -- Standing in her driveway in Aurora, Colorado, a diverse suburb just east of Denver, a woman listened impatiently on Monday as a 17-year-old canvasser from the Latino advocacy group Mi Familia Vota attempted to talk to her about the election. The canvasser, Daniela Alonzo, had tried to enter...

DENVER -- Colorado voters with progressive group MoveOn and abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America delivered nearly 13,000 signatures from voters to The Denver Post on Tuesday to demand that the paper rescind its endorsement of Republican Senate candidate Cory Gardner.

About 20 of them gathered outside the newspaper's...

President Barack Obama has the authority to take executive action on immigration -- and that's what he should do, says former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

"If Congress refuses to act and perform its duties, then I think it's appropriate for the executive to step in and use his...

WASHINGTON -- Former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich accused the president in a robocall to conservatives of putting America at risk through his immigration policies -- including what seems be a reference to a new policy that will help refugee children.

The call went out to...

WASHINGTON -- In 2011, a then-14-year-old orphan fled Honduras for the U.S., fearful that gang members would come after him after he had refused to join them. He'd grown up in an orphanage and on the streets, and thought that if he stayed in Honduras, he would be killed. He'd...

WASHINGTON -- Top Democratic senators wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Thursday to question his department's massive expansion of immigrant family detention, a practice that allows women and children seeking asylum to be locked up and potentially puts them at risk of abuse.

"Mothers and their children who...

WASHINGTON -- Border agents are failing to identify people who could have credible claims to asylum, allowing them to be deported to face possibly dangerous conditions in their native countries without a more substantial screening, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights Watch.

The report...

Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is in deep water with progressives and immigration advocates after her campaign ran an ad calling undocumented immigrants "illegal aliens" and bizarrely accusing her opponent, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), of being soft on immigration.

On Tuesday, progressive group MoveOn.org Political Action...

WASHINGTON -- Organizations and individuals have raised more than $1.5 million to help unaccompanied minors who came to the U.S. from Central America at crisis levels over the past year, including many who fled violence and now face deportation.

The effort was started by the California Endowment, a health...

Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst said Saturday that she wouldn't try to do away with a policy that helps young undocumented immigrants, even though she's previously criticized her Democratic opponent for opposing efforts to end the program.

During a debate with Democratic candidate Rep. Bruce Braley...

WASHINGTON -- Over the last fiscal year, there has been a shift in the nationalities of people apprehended crossing the southwest border: for the first time in history, a majority of them were from countries other than Mexico, according to a new report.

The analysis, published Thursday...

WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson shot down claims on Thursday that a "porous" U.S. southern border is allowing terrorists, Ebola and a surge of unaccompanied minors into the country, despite claims to the contrary by some politicians.

Johnson tried to dispel rumors and dial back fears during...