Illegal Immigration News

Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions.

Key figures in a lawsuit that alleges that an Arizona sheriff's office has racially profiled Latinos in its immigration patrols.

President Obama sits in the White House today because President Reagan brought so many Hispanic voters into the nation's fold with the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, Rep.

South Asian rights group has expressed serious concerns over certain provisions of the comprehensive immigration reform bill that will pave a pathway to citizenship to some 11 million undocumented immigrants, including more than 260,000 Indians.

The recent legislative proposals around immigration did not arise out of a top-down process but are related to the changing demographics and the growing political power in our communities.

I couldn't believe it either. Two weeks before the Senate Judiciary Committee's historic 13-5 vote on the Gang of Eight's immigration reform bill, the Arizona Republic featured two guest editorialists to debate the legislation.

The man accused of hitting and killing a Harris County sheriff's deputy while driving drunk was in the country illegally, a judge said in court overnight.

Mexican citizen Jacobo Peters Fehr who was a fugitive from Canadian courts for about 10 years but arrested in mid-April in the town of Lubbock.

A House bipartisan immigration plan survived a near collapse Thursday, after negotiators reached agreement on a controversial sticking point over health care costs for undocumented workers.

A Mexican citizen, jailed for more than a month in Lubbock on an extradition request from Canada, pleaded not guilty this week to federal weapons charges.

A man has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service after illegally providing immigration advice and taking more than A 4,000 from several clients.

PATERSON - An illegal immigrant is being held on $50,000 bail after authorities discovered he fraudulently obtained a driver's license.

Nearly six in 10 Americans back a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants, with narrow preference for prompt action on the issue.

A Republican lawmaker wants the state to stop issuing driver's licenses to undocumented residents, whether those individuals have applicable federal paperwork or not.

Connecticut voters may not be ready , but that didn't stop the House from pushing forward with a vote on a bill that would give undocumented immigrants the ability to obtain a driver's license.

Last week, police in Decatur arrested Jose Luis Rodriguez-Solis after he reportedly raped a 9-year-old girl earlier this year.

El Centro Sector Border Patrol enforcement operations have led to the recent arrests, convictions, and successful sentencing of 10 illegal immigrants, all of which had prior convictions for other crimes.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to allow illegal immigrants who get legal status to begin collecting tax-welfare payments, as the panel spent a fourth day working through amendments to the massive immigration bill and party-line splits began to emerge Overall, the committee continued to maintain the delicate balance struck by the "Gang ... (more)

The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report.

Immigration advocacy groups are getting more calls and more questions as the Senate prepares to debate an immigration reform bill.