Immigration Reform News

Noor Jahan rocked slowly on the floor, trying to steady her weak body. Her chest heaved and her eyes closed with each raspy breath.

A man accused of mailing a homemade bomb to Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio last year was arrested after Postal Inspectors and FBI agents executed a search warrant on his Oklahoma residence.

Foreigners trying to get into the U.S. through specialized work visas are being denied at a higher rate, increasing nearly five-fold in the past six years, according to a report set to be released Wednesday.

From the moment Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed America's first minimum wage law in 1938 , conservatives have fought increases every time and everywhere they've been proposed.

Gov. Jerry Brown praised gay rights advocates Monday night for being on "the cutting edge" in pushing for equality over the last several decades, as he was honored with an award for what supporters said was his lifelong push to advance equal rights.

In 2008, the U.S. government changed the rules on student visas and allowed foreign STEM students to work in the U.S. for up to 29 months without an H-1B visa.

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.