Immigration Reform News

Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration status makes them fearful of calling police, according to a report being released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch.

An illegal immigrant from South Carolina that the government wants to deport will get a federal court hearing in his case.

Father Jose Landaverde and Emma Lazano sit in front of the building which houses immigration court during a protest May 15, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.

French officials say that new President Francois Hollande's plane was hit by lightning en route to Berlin.

House Republicans are revising their proposal to renew the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, but not enough to satisfy President Barack Obama and other Democrats intent on preserving their lead among female voters in this volatile election year.

A Mexican national has been sentenced to five years in federal prison in an Arizona human smuggling case involving Colorado.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has limited the flights of the F-22 fighter jet to regions where pilots can quickly land the plane if they experience oxygen problems.

A federal program aimed at identifying illegal immigrants arrested for crimes has taken effect in Massachusetts, despite concerns raised by Gov.

Prosecutors are in the home stretch in the first murder trial in Michigan connected to a series of deadly stabbings two summers ago.

President Barack Obama's shift to support gay marriage is energizing young Hispanic voters who have been working side-by-side with gay activists in their push for immigration reform.

America's decades-old immigration system should be replaced with an auction of work permits, says a UC Davis economist who is attracting attention on Capitol Hill.

President Barack Obama on Monday defended his view that gay couples should have the right to marry, saying that the country has never gone wrong when it "expanded rights and responsibilities to everybody." "That doesn't weaken families.

Since December 2005, a golf course on the banks of the Rio Grande has been a laboratory for a U.S. Border Patrol experiment called Operation Streamline.

Presidential nominees have several options for repositioning after ideologically charged primary campaigns: strategic silence, new proposals, a different tone on the brighter general election stage.

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Juan C. Contreras-Mendez, 29, of Hamlin in Monroe County, was arrested on the fugitive warrant and turned over to Immigration officials.

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Lazarus was convicted in March of murder in the Feb. 24, 1986, shooting death of Sherri Rae Rasmussen.

Top Republican officeholders went out of their way Thursday to try to shift the conversation back to the economy.

Among the specific allegations of racial profiling and discrimination listed in a lawsuit that the Justice Department filed against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio are: - In one instance, a sheriff's deputy stopped a five-months pregnant Latina woman, a U.S. citizen, as she pulled into her driveway and ordered that she sit on the hood of her ... (more)