Immigration Reform News

A big brother you can trust to keep you safe, give you a hand and do right by you? Or a big brother who snoops, lies and bullies you in all corners of your life? There's a common thread running through a series of controversies dogging President Barack Obama : the federal government, and conflicting interpretations of what it is.

As Congress takes up immigration reform, lawmakers seeking tighter border security may have to confront the reality of places such as Matamoros, Mexico, and other border towns controlled by drug cartels.

Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is aiming this week to pass a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions, setting up a high-stakes debate on the Senate floor.

This article will explore some of the challenges and opportunities which immigration reform will present if it is ever implemented as envisioned by the United States Congress in S744 and various amendments. One of the most perplexing questions politicians on both sides of the aisle face on immigration reform is when and under what circumstances the border with Mexico can be made secure.

Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives declared they had reached a tentative deal, resolving disputes that had threatened to torpedo negotiations.

Congress is currently debating a way of giving millions of undocumented immigrants a route to citizenship, the first revamp of the system in decades.

Health fears: Esther Angeles, 41, who developed diabetes after moving to the US, eats lunch with her daughter.

Senate Democrats, whose chief attribute is their wobbliness, are wringing their hands over what to do about gay protections in the immigration reform bill.

The landmark conviction of former Guatemalan dictator General Efrain Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity - the 1982 massacre of 1700 Ixil Mayan Indians considered sympathetic to leftwing guerrillas - and United States backing for the scorched earth campaign, was a grim reminder of bloody footprints left by Washington, in this case ... (more)

The four Georgia Republicans running for U.S. Senate say they are united in opposition to a comprehensive immigration reform bill pending in Washington, saying the legislation doesn't do enough for border security.

Immigration is an emotionally charged issue, noted U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross in his blog, Immigration: The Compassionate and Justice-Oriented Way Forward.

It's been a long slog already for the bipartisan immigration overhaul proposed by the Senate's Gang of Eight.

Both sides of the political aisle have made a major issue out of the problem of the 11 million people inside the US illegally or presently undocumented.

A tsunami of scandals threatens to distract Barack Obama from his second-term agenda as U.S. media and Republicans turn up the heat on the embattled U.S. president.

A vast majority of U.S. small businesses believe immigration reform is vital to their businesses, according to a survey from the National Association for the Self-Employed. The NASE survey found that 77 percent of the nation's small companies called the issue of immigration reform important to their business.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The Canadian government has launched an aggressive campaign to lure Silicon Valley tech workers frustrated by U.S. visa policies northward, just as Congress wrestles with a long-sought overhaul of America's immigration system.

Two Will County Board members announced Thursday they are opposed to the building of an immigrant detention center in Joliet, and one Joliet councilman is pushing the council to decide if it wants to court the project.

The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling America's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

A bipartisan group of House members announced a deal Thursday on sweeping immigration legislation, a breakthrough that could boost chances for one of President Barack Obama's top second-term priorities.