NBC Latino contributor Raul Reyes suggested Saturday that Republicans attacking Obama about Benghazi, the AP, and the IRS, gives them political cover to work with the president on immigration. Read More

Labor is brandishing research that says the scarcity of workers is a myth while the tech industry is pointing to other studies that say the shortage is very real and is a threat to U.S. competitiveness. Read More

An "MHP" guest writes that while poverty creates great challenges for families, providing them them the resources to become upwardly mobile is key. Read More

At a hearing over the the immigration bill, Texas Sen. John Cornyn argued the country's border security should be based on Disney World's biometric entry-exit system. Read More

The RNC communications director said a former GOP Latino outreach director's claim to have left the Republican Party because of its "culture of intolerance," is not the whole story. Read More

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Tuesday he would choose Obamacare over the comprehensive immigration bill proposed by the “Gang of Eight.” Read More

A mere two months after the Republican National Committee rolled out its $10 million minority outreach campaign, an RNC director in charge of Hispanic outreach in Florida says he's now "taking a stand against this culture of intolerance" and is abandoning the GOP to become Democrat. Read More

The Obama administration is on defense, battling negative headlines on three fronts: The IRS targeting Tea Party groups, controversy over edits made to talking points in the wake of the Benghazi attack, and now the DOJ's seizure of phone records from AP reporters and editors. Read More

Jason Richwine stepped down from the Heritage Foundation. He told the Washington Examiner, “The accusation of racism is one of the worst things that anyone can call you in public life,” he said. “Once that word is out there, it’s very difficult to recover from it, even when it is completely untrue.” Read More

Congressional Republicans this week reached new heights of "obsession" over the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said, as GOP leaders fought to stoke controversy over the September attack that left four Americans dead. Read More

The right-wing think tank's Jason Richwine was co-author of a controversial immigration study and a 2009 dissertation alleging that Hispanics are "low-IQ" immigrants who (unlike the Irish) can't assimilate. Read More

Thursday's more than seven-hour hearing was only the tipping point in what is expected to be many more contentious mark-ups to push through immigration reform. Read More

Mayor Michael Bloomberg opposes the legislation, arguing it violates the state constitution. But the bill currently has 34 co-sponors, enough to override a potential mayoral veto. Do you think non-citizens should be able to vote? Take our poll. Read More

In the opinion pages: The Wall Street Journal's Kim Strassel notes the conservative support rallying behind Florida Senator Marco Rubio just days after the… Read More

Jason Richwine, co-author of a Heritage Foundation study which said citizenship for immigrants would cost the U.S. $6.3 trillion, has said that Hispanic immigrants with low-IQ’s will have generations of family members with low-IQ’s as well. Read More

President Barack Obama is taking it to the American people again, this time talking about job creation. But with Wall Street doing fine, is there any urgency in Washington to press for more jobs? Read More

The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin marking up the "Gang of Eight" bipartisan immigration bill that aims to create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Read More

In a 2009 dissertation, Jason Richwine argued that immigrants have lower IQs than "that of the white native population, and the difference is likely to persist over several generations." Read More

President Obama's job approval has returned to positive territory in recent weeks, but the percentage of Americans who say they believe he is effective has gone down, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday. Read More