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A report released last week by the Heritage Foundation was co-authored by a researcher who believes Hispanics and blacks are not as smart as Europeans and may complicate assimilation.

Immigrant groups are hoping to build a national, grassroots movement to preserve the endangered Diversity Visa program, slated for elimination under Washington’s proposed immigration overhaul. They’re starting local, looking to Chicago’s City Council to put pressure on Illinois’ Congressional delegation.

Illinois U.S. Senator Mark Kirk held his first public appearance since suffering a massive stroke last year. 

As Congress debates whether the U.S. needs to issue more temporary visas for high-skill foreign nationals, a new study finds that, contrary to popular belief, the U.S. produces plenty of graduates in the fields of science and engineering. But they’re not getting those jobs.

Some Illinois gay rights groups are concerned they’ll be left out of an immigration overhaul in Congress.

The ambitious Cuban-American senator from Florida may have met his match in the ambitious Cuban-American senator from Texas. Which means immigration reform is probably doomed.

 Lobbying effort represents a major shift for some evangelicals, who traditionally have resisted offering legal status to illegal immigrants.