SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- President Barack Obama on Friday addressed a Central American region that continues to be plagued by violence, drug traffickin...

The sooner a comprehensive immigration reform bill puts the estimated 600,000 undocumented Hondurans in the U.S. on a path to citizenship, the sooner these immigrants can move out of the shadow economy and compete for higher wages as equals to U.S. citizens.

Although Christmas is a sacred celebration in the heavily Catholic countries that make up Central America, this year, the holiday offered no reprieve ...

We need a thoughtful, efficient, legal immigration process that is fair for all. This means that the DREAM Act must become a done deal. This also means we must get papers to the 12 million undocumented immigrants and bring them out the shadows.

When will we listen? Not anytime soon if the two U.S. presidential candidates have any say. Actually, the problem is what they did not say. Both candidates presented acceptance speeches that failed to address this multi-billion dollar investment in the drug war - one of the most egregious failures of domestic policy of our times.