We’re new arrivals one day and forget our origins the next. Addressing a group of 31 immigrants from 25 countries at a naturalization ceremony on Tuesday, President Obama spoke of the long history of immigration to the United States and the diversity of experiences of the nation’s new arrivals. “One […]
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More Mexicans are leaving the U.S. than entering, says a recent study. The report from the Pew Research Center was released as some presidential candidates talk about building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Not since the 1970s have fewer Mexicans entered the U.S. than returned home. The flow […]
WASHINGTON (CNS) — In response to suggestions made by some Republican presidential candidates in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, that the United States refuse entry to Muslim refugees or that U.S. mosques be surveillance targets, several religious leaders have rejected the idea. “We […]
By Miriam Jordan The Obama administration this weekend began detaining Central Americans who have evaded deportation orders, launching a crackdown on people illegally in the country amid an increase in migrants trying to cross the southwest border. Just before Christmas, government officials confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security was […]