SC bars Lanao del Norte mayor from joining polls over citizenship
By Tetch Torres-Tupas
The Supreme Court has barred Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte Mayor Rommel Arnado from running in elections.

The Supreme Court has barred Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte Mayor Rommel Arnado from running in elections.

“This is the year, this is the moment, this is history.”

US President Barack Obama declared that “now is the time” to fix the broken US immigration system, diving into the politically explosive issue with broad proposals for putting millions of illegal immigrants on a clear path to citizenship while cracking down on businesses that employ people illegally and tightening security at the borders.

A 102-year-old Filipino man who came to the U.S. as a youth in 1928 to pick vegetables became a citizen during a touching naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES—The federal government will run a national advertising campaign to encourage more immigrants to become American citizens and become more integrated into society, officials said on Wednesday. The multilingual effort aims to reach roughly 7.9 million immigrants who are eligible to file applications to naturalize but haven’t done so. Many immigrants work, raise a [...]
EL PASO—US President Barack Obama Tuesday predicted Republicans would seek to block his drive for immigration reform, in an apparent play for vital Hispanic votes in his 2012 reelection bid. Obama made a moral and economic case for bringing 11 million illegal immigrants out of the shadows and putting them on a path to citizenship, [...]