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Gallery Everyone is coming to America, to the land of opportunity, Martinez, 31, recalled thinking. And here I am, thinking about taking my family in the opposite direction. There are more mixed-status families living in the United States than ever ...

On the 7th of May, I appeared on Fox & Friends to debate the issue of San Francisco's wrong-headed decision to not notify ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) when they have an illegal alien in custody they arrested pursuant to non-immigration ...

ATLANTA, May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the federal government, not states, should write immigration laws. Napolitano, in a speech at the Atlanta Press Club Saturday, declined to comment on Georgia's Arizona-like ...

My oldest daughter was almost born in Thailand. I was living in Kathmandu, Nepal, at the time, and the closest western hospitals were a days flight away in Bangkok. I loved cruising Bangkok Chinatown, and I thought that would be a fun way to spend a ...

As the holiday season approaches and many people travel back to their home country, it is important to understand travel limitations. Many lawful permanent residents (green card holders) and naturalized U.S. citizens are not aware of the consequences ...

VENICE, Italy ? Pope Benedict XVI urged Italy on Sunday to welcome immigrants fleeing to its shores, invoking the historic role of Venice and the once influential church in nearby Aquileia as a cultural bridges during his two-day visit to northern Italy. ...

Islamabad. May 8: After Pakistan was faced with some bashing from both within and outside the country; tongues were wagging on how the Pakistan intelligence did not have any knowledge of the most wanted man, Osama Bin Laden living right under their nose ...

LOS ANGELES - Trailblazing civil rights lawyer Julie Su will receive the National Immigration Law Centers Courageous Luminary for Legal Advocacy award in honor of her decades of service to the California immigrant community. The award will be ...

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Today's Wall Street Journal (May 7-8) notes that the controversial H-1B visa program has attracted about 50% fewer applicants this year and 80% fewer than during the same period of 2009. In the year through the end of April 2011, there have been 8,000 ...

President Obama heads to Texas Tuesday to lay out his plan for comprehensive immigration reform in a move that may win him Hispanic votes next year but has little chance of passing Congress. Obama's proposal would shift resources to understaffed areas ...

Cody West, Colorado Correctional Industries It's been 25 years since the Bureau of Land Management decided to speed up adoptions of wild horses by using prison inmates to train them. Since then nearly 5,000 animals have been gentled or saddle trained in ...

ATLANTA - The nation's domestic security chief stressed Saturday that a comprehensive immigration overhaul should be left up to Congress, rebuking Georgia politicians who recently adopted a crackdown on illegal immigration that's considered among the ...

Do you like this story? Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis NEW YORK: Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced May 2, the availability of approximately $240 million through the H-1B technical skills training grant competition. The US Department of Labor ...

Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, May 7 (EFE).- Mexican police detained 26 undocumented immigrants in the southern state of Chiapas, a group made up of nine Chinese, six Dominicans, six Salvadorans and five Indians who were traveling hidden in a truck, officials ...

Tucson, Arizona, May 7 (EFE).- An undocumented Mexican immigrant faces second-degree murder charges in last December's death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Manuel Osorio Arellanes, the only person arrested in the case up to now, together with ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who was born in Baton Rouge to immigrant parents from India, has released his birth certificate. The Republican made the move Friday, nine days after President Barack Obama released his own long-form birth ...

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TAIPEI -- The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) confirmed Saturday that a reduction in the U.S. visa application fee will be in effect starting May 9, the same day in which Taiwan's visa fee will be lowered for U.S. citizens. The AIT spokesman ...

MS. MACCALLUM: We have new reaction now to a growing scandal over American weapons that were smuggled into Mexico and then sold to drug cartels as part of a U.S. government sting operation. This week lawmakers grilled Attorney General Eric Holder about ...