Illegal Immigration News

Editor's note: Ruben Navarrette is a CNN contributor and a nationally syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group.

The San Francisco Chronicle changed its style on "illegal immigrant" Monday. It's the latest of several publications to reconsider the term.

At 5am this morning around 120 immigration and police officers from Home Office Immigration Enforcement and Kent Police carried out simultaneous raids on addresses in London, Luton and Essex.

Stunt expert Leigh-Anne Vizer is held by a 4.5 metre King Kong hand 300 metres above the city of Melbourne during a 'King Kong' production photo call at Eureka Skydeck in Melbourne, Australia.

"When that happened, I felt that confirmation," Juan said. "This is the relationship that I want to be in.

Jason Richwine, who resigned from the Heritage Foundation May 10, was the co-author of a study that claimed granting legal status to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants here would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion over their lifetimes.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with DREAMers who have received Deferred Action and U.S. citizen family members of undocumented immigrants, in the Oval Office, May 21, 2013.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz failed to knock out problematic provisions in the Senate's "Gang of Eight" immigration bill Tuesday, but not before warning that the bill could make immigration worse.

Nevada's state Senate on Monday, May 20, approved creating special identification cards that will serve as de factor driver's licenses for people living in the state illegally, The Associated Press reported.

Far-reaching immigration legislation neared a final committee vote on Tuesday as the White House and Democratic supporters sought to delay a showdown over the rights of gay spouses until a debate in the full Senate.

President Barack Obama invited two illegal immigrants to meet him and Vice President Joe Biden in the White House today to help promote the Senate's immigration bill.

If current legislation that creates a path to legalization for 11 million undocumented immigrants is passed, the nation's Hispanic real estate leaders estimate that it would create a new pool of 3 million homeowners and pump more than $500 billion in sales, income and spending into the U.S. housing economy.

It's 4:40 p.m. on a spring Monday in New York City and Jose Antonio Vargas is energized.

The president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council announced his opposition to the Gang of Eight immigration bill on Monday, joining dozens of law-enforcement officers from around the country.

The nativists are a parasitic lot. They gloat when someone is murdered by an "illegal immigrant," or any kind of immigrant, actually.

The longer researchers and analysts have to examine the mammoth 844-page "immigration reform" measure currently under consideration in the Senate, the more giveaways and loopholes they find.

Over the same period, the estimated share of green card recipients who belong to religious minorities rose from approximately one-in-five to one-in-four . This includes growing shares of Muslims and Hindus .

In GE13, we witnessed disturbing patterns of latent animosity that reinforce our already discriminatory and prejudicial attitude towards migrants/immigrants, laments Linda Lumayag .

A Honduran woman with legal immigrant status was sentenced to two years probation Friday in Baton Rouge federal court after admitting that she illegally transported minivan loads of undocumented immigrants from Houston to Miami.

Greece's parliament evicted a far-right lawmaker for insulting rivals in a tumultuous debate on Friday that prompted jeers of "Heil Hitler" from a leftist deputy and bolstered calls to crack down on the nationalist Golden Dawn party.