Immigration Reform News

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.

First lady Michelle Obama talks to Affordable Care Act enrollee Shownda Pagans, as enrolled ACA customer Allen Zullinger , host Annie Neasman, and certified application counselor Myrlene Jackie watch, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, at the Jessie Trice Community Health Care Center in Miami, to highlight the work that hospitals, doctors, and clinics are ... (more)

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."

House Republicans may soon face a flurry of constituent phone calls and awkward confrontations with immigration advocates.

Customs officials refuse to disclose names, criminal histories and whereabouts on more than 2,200 detainees released a year ago.

Abel Maldonado, former lieutenant governor and candidate for governor, was the keynote speaker at the Western United Dairymen's annual convention in San Luis Obispo.

Immigrants in the country illegally can't be given a license to practice law, a question that was raised when a man who moved here from Mexico when he was 9 years old sought a license in Florida, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

You knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. When government expands entitlements, illegal aliens always end up with a piece of the pie.

They arrived in January of 2011, unfamiliar with the ways of Washington, and promising never to adapt.

After hours of contentious debate, Republicans pushed through a bill in the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday night that would bar the homeland security secretary from using taxpayer dollars for the ICE position.

Human traffickers have kept hundreds of Rohingya Muslims captive in houses in northern Malaysia, beating them, depriving them of food, and demanding a ransom from their families, according to detailed accounts by the victims.

Liberal Democrat Business Secretary Vince Cable is set to anger his Conservative coalition colleagues today as he hails free movement in the European Union and attacks immigration "scare stories".

U.S. President Barack Obama should cut deportations of migrants and focus resources on the 2 million people in the U.S. who are eligible to become citizens, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday during a visit to Mexico's capital.

President Barack Obama speaks on the importance of raising the minimum wage during an event at at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Conn., Wednesday, March 5, 2014.

Some 22 individuals trying to cross from Mexico into the United States illegally were killed by Border Patrol agents since 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The Crime Museum in Washington is opening a new exhibit with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency about the work behind homeland security.

It may have been one of the shortest races of the 2014 campaign season, but with just one week left until the special election in Florida's 13th Congressional District, voters learned that one candidate killed someone decades ago, the other found herself in hot water over a controversial remark about immigration and both sides added hundreds of ... (more)