Illegal Immigration News

It's President Obama's top priority and the "Gang of Eight" senators' bill. But as sweeping immigration reform legislation heads to the Senate floor, it may be The Chuck Schumer Show.

Every once in a while you will chance upon an acquaintance in the throes of Visa applications.

From now on, no one will be described in an Associated Press news story as an 'illegal immigrant,' 'illegal alien,' 'illegal,' or as 'undocumented.' The AP announced in April that its vaunted Stylebook will not sanction these commonly used terms.

Two unions representing nearly 20,000 federal immigration agents say the Gang of Eight's proposed reforms in Congress are driven by special interests that "will make the current system worse, not better." In an unprecedented move, the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, representing 12,000 United States Citizenship and ... (more)

A top Republican lawmaker blasted President Obama after he held an Oval Office meeting this week with illegal immigrants, despite having ignored recent requests for a sit-down from the union representing immigration officers.

On Tuesday, Emmanuel Hernandez, 24, was arrested by investigators with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office after he reportedly shook his girlfriend's son so violently that the child slipped into a coma and later died.

The immigration bill that the Senate Judiciary Committee has passed with bipartisan support and sent to the full Senate still faces many hurdles.

I sympathize with guest columnist Hugo Balta's objection to the term "illegal immigrant," but his proposed use of "undocumented immigrant" in news stories is much worse ["These immigrants are not 'illegal,'" Opinion, May 21]. Let's not sacrifice linguistic truth for political correctness.

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.