Immigration Reform News

There's a congressional election in Florida Tuesday that's worth watching - even if you don't live in the Tampa Bay-area district where it's taking place.

Dozens of young migrants trying to cross from Mexico presented themselves to U.S. border inspectors without legal documents Monday, expressing frustration with the pace of efforts to overhaul U.S. immigration laws and protesting a growing number of deportations under President Barack Obama's watch.

An immigrant-rights attorney says detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Washington state are being threatened with forced feeding if they continue their hunger strike.

Cesar Hernandez back at USF in 2011, when he went on a 24-hour filibuster to bring attention to issues concerning USF students.

A bill that would grant in-state tuition to the children of undocumented immigrants has picked up speed in the state legislature A bill that would grant in-state tuition to the children of undocumented immigrants has picked up speed in the state legislature, but a related measure that would offer the same benefit to undocumented students who attend ... (more)

Two days ago, a Malaysian passenger jet with more than 200 people on board vanished in the skies over Southeast Asia.

In this photo released by Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, a patrol vessel of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency searches for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane off Tok Bali Beach in Kelantan, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014.

After crossing a river back into the United States from Mexico with a small group of immigrants, Skarlett Salazar was told to go her separate way, as the rest had done, to avoid detection by immigration authorities.

After becoming international sensations two weeks ago when the judges ran out of words, Kush and Sophia Hoffman met again Saturday for a chance to go to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

In this Oct. 19, 2009 file photo, Samuel Bagdorf of San Francisco, who suffers from anxiety disorders, lights his marijuana pipe at the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Clinic in San Francisco, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009.

A hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center entered a third day as hundreds of detainees protested their treatment and called for an end to deportations.

An Arizona man joined dozens of advocates who "cast ballots" Thursday in what was billed as a mock election for immigration reform outside the Capitol office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

A "strange object" floating in the South China Sea is not debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a U.S. official told CNN on Sunday.

He's among a few vulnerable Republican members in line to be targeted by immigrant rights advocates if the House doesn't pass an immigration bill before the November election that would offer legal status to millions of people who entered the U.S. illegally or overstayed their visas.

California Democrats on Saturday vowed to restore their two-thirds majority in the legislature and push their statewide success eastward in an effort to retake a majority in Congress.

Nearly a dozen local religious leaders joined hands Saturday to bless a group of advocates traveling around the country to increase support for comprehensive immigration reform.

Vince Cable said Lib Dem proposals would help 'persuade the public to calm down' about fears of the impact of immigration Vince Cable has stepped up his row with the Tories over immigration, accusing his coalition colleagues of tending to "fan the flames of prejudice" over the issue.

In a year when California Democrats are worried about motivating their voters, Governor Jerry Brown heard another unwelcome message Saturday: some environmentalists, a core Democratic constituency, are bristling over his administration's policies on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

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