Immigration Reform News

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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The wide-ranging study conducted by Pew shows millenials, or those falling into the 18 to 33 age group, differ from previous generations - like Generation X and the baby boomers - in everything from politics to views on marriage.

Danny Alexander has strongly defended his employment of a Portuguese cleaner as he accused the Tories of opening a "poisonous" debate about immigration.

Many of the headlines after day two of the Conservative Political Action Conference were about Rick Perry's well-received speech, in which he harped on what he deemed the "two Americas": red-state America and blue-state America.

The federal government on Friday released the U.S. Border Patrol's use-of-force policies while the agency's chief issued a directive that reiterates how personnel should respond to threats amid mounting criticism of excessive force and lack of transparency.

Lose a second fight to someone not named Mayweather, though, and the red-haired Mexican's star could begin to fade.

It's only been done once since the Civil War, but that isn't stopping J.D. Winteregg.

A full slate of rising Republican stars has assembled in the D.C. area for the Conservative Political Action Conference , an annual confab where activists mix with leading conservative voices.

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Saying the real solution to the deportation problem is an overhaul of the nation's immigration system, Obama told an Hispanic town hall Thursday: "I am the champion-in- chief of comprehensive immigration reform."