As the attention of the nation turns toward Florida ahead of its primary election, the Latino vote has emerged as an important factor.
CNN's Jessica Yellin reveals the most admired person of 2011.
For the first time in U.S. history, the largest single group of poor children in any racial or ethnic category is Hispanic, according to a new survey.
The population of the United States is still growing -- but not the way it once was. And it definitely isn't booming like populations in some other countries in the world.
In his speech Tuesday, President Obama was right to call for reform of our broken immigration system. But the president's plan to create a "pathway to citizenship" (translation: amnesty) for 10 million to 12 million illegal immigrants and increase legal immigration is not only out of touch with economic reality, it repeats the mistakes of the past.
The growth of the Hispanic population in the United States is outstripping pre-census estimates, the Pew Hispanic Center report released Tuesday says.
Hispanics in the United States are less likely than whites to access the internet, have a home broadband connection or own a cell phone, according to a study by the Pew Hispanic Center released Wednesday.
A two-year decline in the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States has leveled off, at least for now, a Pew Hispanic Center report released Tuesday found.
Immigrants have gained hundreds of thousands of jobs since the Great Recession is said to have ended, while U.S.-born workers lost more than a million jobs, according to a study released Friday.
Latinos in the United States are divided over a host of issues, including what to do about unauthorized immigrants, a reflection of the national political controversy over illegal immigration, a national study released Thursday finds.
Latino support for Democratic candidates remains strong, with 65 percent of registered Hispanic voters saying they plan to vote for the Democrat in their congressional district in next month's midterm elections, the Pew Hispanic Center said in a report Tuesday.
The number of illegal immigrants living in the United States continues to decline from a peak in 2007, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.
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Each election cycle is dubbed "the year" -- a time when Latinos will show up at the polls in droves and transform the political landscape.
Just one in 10 Latino high school dropouts earns a high school equivalency degree, compared with two in 10 African-American dropouts and three in 10 white dropouts, the Pew Hispanic Center said Thursday.
The number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States decreased by 800,000 from 2008 to 2009, the Department of Homeland Security said in a report released Wednesday.
Legalization of the more than 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States would raise wages, increase consumption, create jobs and generate more tax revenue, two policy institutes say in a joint report Thursday.
Mexican immigration to the United States has dropped sharply since 2005, but the flow of migrants returning to Mexico remains steady, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.
Some of the rapid gains in homeownership made by minority Americans during the last housing boom have been wiped out by the latest bust, according to a report released Tuesday.
The nation's suburban schools added 3.4 million students to their rolls over the past 15 years -- and nearly all of them were minorities, according to a study released Tuesday.
The flow of undocumented immigrants into the United States has slowed in the past three years, a major think tank reported Thursday.
Illegal immigration, which has sparked political and social turmoil in communities across the nation, is on the wane, according to an independent report released Thursday.
Pew Hispanic Center's Susan Minushkin explain Thursday's poll on Latino support for Sen. Obama.
A new poll released Thursday shows overwhelming support from Latinos for Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain.
As Democratic and Republican presidential candidates scour the country for votes during the 2008 campaign, they'll inevitably court the Hispanic community, a voting group growing rapidly in number and diversity.
English languageupdated: Fri Jun 15 2007 17:38:00
Here are some facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting. A 2005 Pew Hispanic Center study found 73% of foreign-born Hispanics in the United States do not speak English very well, versus 54% of other foreign-born immigrants. Source: Pew Hispanic Center: Table 18 Table 19
For the home building industry, the immigration debate raging in Washington is anything but abstract. It's the biggest issue nobody wants to talk about.
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