White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That's eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004. The nation has been growing more diverse for decades, but the process has sped up through immigration and higher birth rates among minority residents, especially Hispanics.

Here is a story, published in the New York Times about a young man with a bright future in front of him, married to a US Citizen, with two small children, who was detained as he sought legal status. A year later, he died in custody of untreated cancer.

Learn more about immigrant detention and abuse at http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/

The U.S. government has spent more than $51 million during the past four summers flying nearly 64,000 illegal immigrants back to the Mexican interior after they were caught crossing the border.

The Mexican Consulate in Chicago issued a warning Friday evening to Mexican nationals to carry proper identification and be cautious when arriving or going to meet relatives or friends at the world's second busiest airport. By SOPHIA TAREEN | Associated Press Writer. Chicago Tribune Web Edition

In the wake of the May immigration raid of a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, St. Bridget’s Catholic Church in Postville was immediately reborn as an emergency shelter for detainees’ families who wanted to be close to their loved ones or were afraid to go home.

Many hospitals are taking it upon themselves to deport seriously injured or ill immigrants because nursing homes won’t accept them without insurance. Link is to a long new York times article containing photos and video.

Dolores Huerta is a petite 78-year-old with dark, fierce eyes, who has inspired people to stand up for themselves for over 50 years. Though she says she was shy as a child growing up in Stockton, another city with many poor families and immigrants here in the San Joaquin Valley, today Huerta is bossy and quick to speak her mind. Read the rest of the profile at High Country News.

More than 1,000 people, including at least 150 from the Twin Cities of Minnesota, descended Sunday on Postville, a seemingly bucolic place beset by turmoil in the wake of the nation's largest immigration raid in May.