The University of Texas-Austin’s Young Conservatives chapter, which “has been fighting for conservative values for more than a quarter century,” boasts of alumni like Senator Rand Paul and Congressmen Jeb Hensarling and Steve Stockman. We wonder what they think of the group’s latest stunt: A campus-wide game, called “Catch an Illegal Immigrant,” which rewards students who tackle designated Longhorns wearing “Illegal Immigrant” signs. Because they’re illegal immigrants. Get it?

New Zealand has rejected the work visa of a chef who has been living there since 2007, all because he is simply too fat for the small island nation.

Spanish-language station Univision is going to finish this month's sweep ratings in first place with both the 18-34 and 18-49 age demographics. Perhaps now is the time for traditional networks to try and appeal to Latino viewers instead of giving us shows in which people gamble on their babies.

A Democratic congressman from California who spent 23 years teaching British literature decided to go old school on Republican lawmakers who oppose the comprehensive immigration reform bill — by grading a letter they wrote to House Speaker John Boehner expressing their position on the matter.

A Bulgarian grad student and his American husband have become the first gay couple granted immigration benefits after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act last week. Unfortunately, Traian Popov and Julian Marsh live in Florida, which continues to not recognize their union.

A comprehensive immigration reform bill just passed through the Senate, and you need to know what's in it (so you can most effectively fight with your old neighbor on Facebook). Here's your easy-to-understand guide to the Senate's bill and the current status of immigration reform.

When Democratic Senator Tim Kaine threw his support behind a bipartisan immigration bill in the Senate today, he did so with a speech from the floor delivered en Español. Kaine is fluent in Spanish after having done a spell of Catholic missionary work in Latin America.

The Nybro Action Team consists of Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed roommates living in Nybro, a small industrial town in southern Sweden. Hjalmar is a chef; Alex takes woodworking courses. Today, they write about the riots that swept Stockholm and other Swedish towns last week. We have lightly edited their post for grammar and punctuation.

ThinkProgress goes long on this question: "If [Jason "Latinos Have Low IQs" Richwine's] dissertation was bad enough to get him fired from the Heritage Foundation, how did it earn him a degree from Harvard?"

With a vote of 13 to 5, the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a landmark immigration bill that would offer a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living in America illegally.

Monstrous "crazy ants" from Argentina and Brazil have invaded Texas and the American Southeast, driving out the already awful fire ant and making life even more miserable for those living in the South.

New research on the health of immigrants has found that they live longer than their children, mostly because the American way of life is a horribly unhealthy one.

Jason Richwine, whose immigration-policy analysis for the Heritage Foundation was informed by his earlier writings on the congenital intellectual weakness of Hispanic immigrants, has resigned. Noted race scholars Charles Murray and Michelle Malkin are outraged by the betrayal.

Fifteen farm workers in California who had no choice but to flee indoors to escape the smoke and ash descending upon them from the massive wildfire burning nearby were summarily terminated the following day.

Shorter Paul Ryan in town-hall meeting: "Anchor babies... anchor babies... anchor babies." The Republican Party's Latino and millennial outreach continues apace.

In an effort to be "fair, nuanced, and precise," the L.A. Times will "no longer refer to individuals as 'illegal immigrants' or 'undocumented immigrants,'" in favor of "describ[ing] a person's circumstances"

Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert, the patron saint of marginally literate Nacogdoches bigots, has taken time from his busy schedule of indulging big oil to advise America on how it can prevent future Bostons: Build a huge wall and keep an eye on those Mexican fundamentalists.

Is Mark Zuckerberg's new immigration-reform group going to fight for janitors the way it does well-educated engineers?

The Gang of 8 is reportedly close to a deal on an immigration bill that would allow a 13-year path to U.S. citizenship.

The big winners in the enormous budget cuts that will gut the federal government: undocumented immigrants! The Department of Homeland Security has released from its jails more than 2000 immigrants who were facing deportation, well above the number that the Obama administration said would be (which is a shame for the Obama administration, which just loves deporting people).