If confirmed, Robert Santos, who is Mexican-American, would become the first person of color to serve as a permanent director of the Census Bureau.

The new target would nearly double the nation’s previous commitment and require dramatic changes in the power, transportation, and other sectors.

Experts say words matter in the push for humane treatment of immigrants.

The proposal includes $861 million to address the root causes of immigration from Central America.

The White House budget office released its first request to Congress under President Joe Biden on Friday.

Louis Anthony ‘Tony’ Cox allowed the oil and gas industry to edit a study playing down the link between pollution and asthma.

‘This continues to have a devastating impact on people in dire need of humanitarian protection,’ families of refugees wrote in a letter to the White House, citing the Trump-era ceiling that’s still in place.

The special sign-up opportunity for Affordable Care Act plans will be available until Aug. 15, 2021, under Biden’s coronavirus relief plan.

State lawmakers who’ve introduced discriminatory bills targeting LGBTQ minors are on ‘notice,’ legal experts say.

College loan debt has increased racial inequality in the United States.

A whopping 73% approve of President Joe Biden’s handling of the virus.

Restoring public confidence in the EPA is a top goal, the agency’s administrator, Michael Regan, said.

Immigrants who need help the most have instead become victims of fraud.

Republican lawmakers are upset that the vice president isn’t buying into fearmongering rhetoric about a ‘crisis’ at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Sen. John Cornyn’s same-day statements about the border don’t align with one another.

‘It does not take that long to process children,” said Jenn Budd, former agent-turned-immigration activist.

Activists and advocacy groups expressed devastation over the news, saying it is ‘unconscionable’ to deport people in the middle of a pandemic.

One expert calls it a ‘good first step,’ but says more needs to be done.

‘This historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country,’ Biden said as he signed the bill.

Not one Republican backed the bill in the Senate or when it initially passed the House.

The Trump administration’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ program forced thousands of immigrants back across the southern border into inhumane conditions as they awaited asylum.

‘At least 87%’ of undocumented immigrants would be protected from deportation under the Biden administration’s new criteria, according to an immigration expert.

The previous administration’s citizenship test significantly slowed the approval process by as much as three times, according to an immigration expert.

Ninety percent of voters support background checks, according to one poll.

The reversal aligns with Biden’s promise to make health care accessible for all Americans.

The transition process is expected to take weeks and would apply to a few dozen U.S. attorneys who were appointed by Donald Trump.

The Biden administration is trying to save them.

The new ceiling is more than eight times higher than the one set by Donald Trump.

They’re recycling excuses from the first impeachment trial to block Judge Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearing.

President Joe Biden fulfills one of his key campaign promises.