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The article details how the details how the immigration reform which already passed in the U.S. Senate, may fare in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. It argues that the House Judiciary Committee's approval of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement (SAFE) Act, essentially a counter-attack on immigration reform was only one indicator of how strongly House Republicans oppose legislation that would allow legal status-and, eventually, citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

The article reflects on the issues related to the development of the U.S. immigration bill after the 2012 U.S. Presidential election. It states that a group that consists of four Democrats and four Republican is implementing the new immigration bill that aims to strengthen the position of undocumented immigrants. It mentions that along with the U.S. Congress, several U.S. activists and politicians are also opposing the immigration bill.

The article focuses on the political asylum applied by Mexican refugees in the U.S. due to the warefare between President Felipe Calderón and Sinaloa cartels. It says that the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) showed that Mexicans have experienced hard time in winning grants of asylum. Vicki Gaubeca of the Regional Center for Border Rights says that the acceptance of the U.S. on the asylum applications is considered a declaration of a failed state.

The article focuses on the campaigns of U.S. politicians to build fences and security in the U.S.-Mexico border. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann says that not building a border would yield the country' sovereignty while Texas Governor Rick Perry said that securing the border requires federal government commitment. Kris Kobach, Kansas secretary, suggests deporting illegal immigrants to create jobs for U.S. citizens while former House speaker Newt Gingrich expresses sympathy for some immigrants.

The article focuses on the issue of decline in the immigration from Mexico to the U.S. Research organization on immigration, the Pew Hispanic Center, uses a variety of data to conclude that migration from Mexico has fallen to zero or decreased. The numbers apprehended have decreased 53 percent since the financial year 2008, and are less than one fifth of their peak in 2000.

In this article, the author discusses the efforts being made by Richard Durbin, an Illinois lawmaker, in re-introducing the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act in 2003. It examines how a battle for civil rights was started by the young immigrants after witnessing the rejection of the DREAM act twicely by the Congress. It informs that United We Dream, a national network of illegal young immigrants, discusses issues of young people with Durban.

The article focuses on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom held in 1963, for African-American civil rights, in 2013. Topics discussed were political and cultural obstacles in the immigration campaigns and civil rights movement in the U.S. in 2013, the oration delivered by "I Have a Dream" American civil rights leader Martin Luther King and role of Georgia Democrat John Lewis in the movements. It also discusses the U.S. Tea Party movement.

In this article, the author discusses the impact of the immigration reform legislation passed by the U.S. Congress on bilateral relations between two friendly countries U.S. and Mexico as of 2013. The author informs that border patrol vehicles have damaged national parks and wildlife refuges and burned acres of forests for making roads and accommodation for military personnel on border and thus impact the natural living of immigrants and climate.