Janell Ross

Florida officials made it clear Friday that the state will continue to purge as many as 182,000 suspected noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls -- despite a coalition's call to stop the process or prepare for court.

In the last three weeks alone, the Florida secretary of...

In 2010, Marco Rubio was a rising star in Florida politics. At age 39, he was already a former speaker of the Florida House and working hard to defeat the state’s governor for an open U.S. Senate seat.

Raoul Lowery Contreras thought Rubio was just the kind...

The number of registered Latino voters living in North Carolina has doubled in the last four years, likely cementing North Carolina’s status as a swing state, according to a study released this week by the Institute for Southern Studies.

This month, North Carolina's voter rolls included 91,554...

Someone trying to draw up a list of election 2012 battleground states would not put Arizona at the top. It's best known in political circles for notorious anti-immigration law SB 1070. It hasn't cast its electoral votes for a Democrat since 1996, when Bill Clinton swept the Electoral College. Its...

When David Valladolid visits with parent groups in California, sits in on school board meetings in Minnesota or meets with the staff running his organization's educational programs in Texas, some concerns seem to come up repeatedly.

"I've been in many a auditorium where parents come in and talk about...

El alguacil del condado de Maricopa, Joe Arpaio de 79 años competirá para ser reelegido en el mes de noviembre. Al alguacil que ha sido reelegido 5 veces en el área de Phoenix y se encuentra en primer lugar en la carrera, parece no afectarle una demanda federal contra su...

Menos de dos meses después de un esfuerzo por parte de Florida por identificar y purgar a los votantes ilegibles del padrón electoral del estado, opositores aseguran que es probable que se descalifique a un número desigual de votantes latinos elegibles.

Cerca de 180,000 personas—un grupo equivalente...

Less than two months after a Florida effort to identify and purge ineligible voters from the state's rolls began, opponents say it seems likely to disqualify a disproportionate share of eligible Latino voters.

About 180,000 people -- a group roughly equal to the population of Tallahassee, Fla. -- are at...

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, 79, will vie for reelection in November. The five-term Phoenix-area sheriff appears to remain the frontrunner, unfazed by a sweeping federal lawsuit filed against his office last week. But he faces five opponents and emboldened opposition from political and civil rights groups.

In the 1940s, when Monica Cruz's grandfather tried to register to vote, officials in Los Fresnos, the small South Texas town where he lived, demanded a fee.

The fee was a poll tax, one of the many devices that Texas authorities used to suppress Latino and black...

A Louisiana immigration court rebuffed the government’s efforts this week to deport an undocumented immigrant who came to the attention of authorities after raising questions about workplace safety issues.

On Tuesday, attorneys representing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) asked a New Orleans immigration court to begin proceedings against...

When she was 12, Magali Sanchez's parents divorced. Her mother, unable to find work in Mexico that would feed the family, made a desperate decision. She skirted U.S. immigration procedure and brought her family across the border to California.

When Sanchez was 17, she dropped out of high school...

In the 30 years that Mary Meza has lived in the United States, she's developed at least two routines. Every week or so she buys a prepaid calling card and every Sunday, she uses one to call her mother in the Dominican Republic.

"But, I've never actually gotten the...

In September 2008, Hurricanes Ike and Gustav ravaged cities along the Texas coast. Ambitious contractors and those just eager to help went looking for laborers ready to do the clean up work.

Josue Diaz was one of several who responded. But when Diaz and about 20 other immigrant workers...

With the intersection of Cinco de Mayo and an election year in which Latino voters are likely to play a definitive role, President Barack Obama’s quick pivot this week from a party to immigration policy isn’t unique.

For candidates across the country, the act of

As both the Republican and Democratic parties clamor to claim a larger share of the Latino electorate this year, electronic voter registration has emerged as a potential sweet spot, a space where political procedure may collide with culture and boost Latino voter participation.

In New...

Sitting behind a computer screen in his Los Angles-area home, Luis Alvarado was sipping coffee and making his usual online run though the morning’s headlines when he saw the news.

A new book examining the life of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) indicates that the Tea Party Republican and possible GOP...

A new book examining the life of Sen. Marco Rubio, will indicate that the Tea Party Republican and possible GOP vice presidential pick, may have a more intimate understanding of life under the shadow of potential deportation than some of his critics think.

In 1962, an immigration court ordered...

When the Rev. Gabriel Salguero stands to talk politics with rooms full of Latino evangelical ministers, he often starts by mentioning his concern about the state of the family, including the unborn.

But when Salguero stood, Bible in hand, in a Cleveland meeting space Saturday filled with about 500 people,...

If politics is a game of numbers, then presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney faces an election gauntlet with competing equations for victory.

In one, former Massachusetts Gov. Romney needs to draw the Republican base of increasingly older, white male voters and the lion share of Independent voters to the...