Attorney General Eric Holder personally slammed the brakes on the deportation of a gay New Jersey couple Thursday. The nation's top lawyer threw out a Board of Immigration Appeals deportation decision so he can review the case himself.
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A program that is central to President Obama's strategy to toughen enforcement of immigration laws is facing growing resistance from state governments. Late Wednesday, Gov. Pat Quinn of Illinois said he was pulling his state out of the program, known as Secure Communities, the first time a state has...
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An attempt to crack down on illegal immigration through new state laws creating mandatory checks by businesses, police and government agencies appears to be running out of steam, largely over concerns about the costs of the programs.
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State House Republicans turned their backs on owners of small businesses in Colorado this week when they decided to support a bill that would make already struggling entrepreneurs de facto immigration police.
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May 5, 2011
A bill unveiled today by Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Penn.) would slash federal funding for cities whose local law enforcement don't enforce immigration laws. The legislation, the "Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act," would crack down on more than a hundred American cities.
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For two days this week, Sen. JD Alexander sat behind his desk on the floor of the Florida Senate with a rosary draped across his laptop screen. It was a gift from one of the hundreds of immigrant children and their parents who for weeks visited the state Capitol...
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Illinois children with at least one immigrant parent may become eligible for a privately-funded college scholarship even if they are in the state illegally. The Senate passed legislation 45-11 Wednesday that would enable children of immigrants to draw from a new scholarship called the Illinois DREAM Fund.
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Milton Ivan Salazar-Gomez has lived in Utah since his parents brought him here when he was 10 months old. His two children are U.S. citizens. And he's afraid he'll be busted by a police officer who won't know the feds have cleared him, not to be a citizen, but...
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U.S. immigration officials have decided that an undocumented immigrant college student apprehended by authorities after driving without a license can stay in the United States for another year, the student said.
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More than two years ago, a federal judge in New York began a crusade to find lawyers for the many immigrants who are detained or deported because they lack representation. Powerful figures, including Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, heard the call and helped...
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