Calling the measure common sense reform, Obama blamed the Dream Act on a few Republicans.
Compared with June 2009, the month the economic recovery officially started, the labor force has shrunk by 365,000, a trend that has never occurred in any post World War 11 recovery. Those saw the labor force climb by the millions by this point in their recoveries, even as unempl …
The first listed subpoena category that Holder has not provided any documents on — or denied the existence of any such documents — is one where Issa demanded all communications "between and among Department of Justice (DOJ) employees and Executive Office of the President em …
An SUV packed with suspected illegal immigrants crashed in a farm town south of Phoenix while fleeing from U.S. Border Patrol agents early Wednesday, leaving four people dead and seven injured.
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While a black preacher told about 100 immigration protesters that incarcerated blacks and detained immigrants faced similar challenges, Jesse Morgan stood to one side of the May Day demonstrators, holding a large sign that read "Radical Queers Resist."
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An unprecedented surge of children caught trudging through South Texas scrublands or crossing at border ports of entry without their families has sent government and nonprofit agencies scrambling to expand their shelter, legal representation and reunification services. On any given day this year, the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement has been caring for more than 2,100 unaccompanied child immigrants.
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Washington DC - With Gov. Jan Brewer sitting in the audience, the Supreme Court today heard the Obama administration’s challenge to Arizona’s strict immigration law with Chief Justice John Roberts suggesting at one point that the federal government “just doesn …
Justice Samuel Alito pointed out that nothing in federal law precludes an officer, on his or her own, from calling federal immigration authorities to make such a check. In fact, he noted, federal law mandates that immigration officials respond. The only difference, he said, is …
"It seems to me that the federal government just doesn't want to know who is here illegally and who's not," Roberts said. Verrilli seemed to struggle to convince even the court's more liberal justices that the federal government has exclusive authority over immigration matters …
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said during a speech Wednesday evening that while he respects U.S. laws designed to control illegal immigration, he's against statutes like Arizona's controversial law that he believes unfairly go after immigrants.
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