The Obama administration has changed the nation's immigration enforcement strategy in ways that will reduce the threat of deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants.
Allowing undocumented immigrants in New Mexico to apply for driver's licenses has unsurprisingly become fodder for the state's heated gubernatorial and attorney general races.
Amid a tightening circle of immigration enforcement by the federal government, officials are quietly halting deportations of some student activists organizing in favor of the federal DREAM Act.