Immigration Reform News

In this July 12, 2014, photo, Central American migrants ride a freight train during their journey toward the U.S.-Mexico border in Ixtepec, Mexico.

A deluge of Central American children pouring into the United States threatens to burst the seams of already overstuffed immigration courts, and President Barack Obama's steps to ease the crisis are likely to make matters worse rather than better for some, U.S. officials and immigration lawyers said.

A gridlocked Congress failed to do the big things: overhauling the nation's immigration system, reforming the loophole-cluttered tax code and stiffening background checks on gun buyers.

A gridlocked Congress failed to do the big things, such as overhauling the U.S. immigration system, reforming the tax code and stiffening background checks on gun buyers.

Congressman Steve Scalise says he and other members of Congress are working on a proposal to immediately deport any illegal immigrants from Central America crossing the U.S. border.

Gov. Rick Perry is deploying up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border over the next month to combat what he said Monday were criminals exploiting a surge of children pouring into the U.S. illegally.

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee approved a Department of Homeland Security budget for Fiscal Year 2015 that includes $5.508 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

Odette Bayagambe, 39, had always considered Tanzania her home, until the afternoon of August 9, 2013 when Tanzanian security operatives attacked her home and forced her to leave the country.

Immigration is the hot topic on all the news networks. But is anything really going to happen when it comes down to it? HuffPost's Zach Carter talks about the latest Battle on Capitol Hill, immigration reform.

President Barack Obama has intentionally allowed the border crisis to get this far as a way to shift demographics in favor of the Democrats.

Alcantara was 13 years old when her parents brought her and her two younger brothers to the United States illegally to escape a life of poverty, government corruption and the effects of organized crime.

Three months before the Obama administration released an illegal immigrant from Central America who would later bludgeon a woman to death, President Barack Obama's Department of Homeland Security was warned that its "catch and release" policy of illegal aliens only encouraged more of them to make the journey to America.

A crowded field of candidates is seeking to replace retiring Republican Rep. Doc Hastings.

It's exactly 1,050 miles from the Northeast Center St. overpass along Interstate 5 in Salem to the Mexican border.

What was once a debate over how to fix a broken system and provide a path to citizenship for millions has become a race to decide how to increase border patrols and send people back quickly to their country of origin.

U.S. Border Patrol agents on the American side of the Rio Grande were forced to take cover Friday night when high-caliber weaponry was fired at them from the Mexican side of the river, sources told FoxNews.com .

An undocumented immigrant mother from Honduras shares her story exclusively with NBC 7's Diana Guevara.

Graveyard of desecration: Grave robbers. Ghoulish tourists taking pictures on their mobiles.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer asked an appeals court Friday to reconsider its earlier ruling that blocked her policy denying driver's licenses to young immigrants who have avoided deportation under an Obama administration policy.

Warren took the stage in a crowded ballroom to calls of "Run, Liz, run" by activists waving "Elizabeth Warren for President" signs _ and did little to disappoint.