Immigration News from around the Web

On many questions, President Obama's approach is full speed ahead. On immigration reform, he prefers to take things one step at a time. There really is no alternative. Immigration is politically vexing because it splits both parties and scrambles the ...

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Xiu Ping Jiang, in an undated photo, has spent more than a year in jail and faces deportation. Her illness has complicated the process. Twice the immigration judge asked the womans name. Twice she gave it: Xiu Ping Jiang. But he chided her, a Chinese New ...

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the resolution passed by the U.S. Senate in honor of World Press Freedom Day on Sunday, May 3rd. According to the Senate, the resolution S.Res.124 'celebrates the fundamental right of freedom of the press, commends ...

New York. Since US immigration laws got stricter in1996, some 36,000 Dominicans have been deported, though unofficial figures raise the number to 56,000, a fact that has caused a serious crisis in that community, according to a new study. The report, ...

Pottsville, Pa. An all-white jury has acquitted two teenagers of all serious charges stemming from the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant last summer. Brandon Piekarsky, 17, was acquitted of third-degree murder and ethnic intimidation, and ...

Teens acquitted of murder, aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation Verdict sends 'extremely dangerous' precedent, advocacy group says Schuylkill County prosecutors alleged the beating was racially motivated Incident drew national attention to small town ...

POTTSVILLE, Pa. - Prosecutors called the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico a hate crime, and they urged an all-white jury in Pennsylvania coal country to punish two white teenagers for their roles in the attack. Instead, the jury found ...

A U.S. man is in police custody in southwestern Manitoba after allegedly driving through a border crossing without stopping in a van loaded with guns, ammunition and a whole lot of gasoline. The unusual incident on Friday afternoon has attracted ...

Does the surviving wife of a U.S. citizen who dies within two years after their marriage remain a ?spouse? so as to be able to obtain immigration benefits? The various circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals do not agree on the answer. Two circuits ...