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Mike Whitehead, Worker at Micro Solutions. He was illegally detained during the Feb. 7 ICE raid. Christopher Scherer, Staff attorney for the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law. Roberto Lovato, Writes for New America Media and is a frequent ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Thousands of immigrants marched through cities across the United States on Thursday, but the smaller crowds suggested their cause had lost momentum in this election year. Immigration-rights activists tried to focus this year's ...

Pro-immigration advocates in front of the Capitol in Washington, DC,01 May 2008Thousands of demonstrators have gathered for annual May Day pro-immigration rallies across the United States, though in smaller numbers than in previous years. Organizers say ...

Although economists say the United States is not technically in a recession, the slowdown in economic activity is having a dramatic impact on the amount of money immigrants are able to send back home. The so-called remittances have fallen off sharply, ...

CHICAGO - Thousands of chanting, flag-waving immigrants and activists rallied in cities across the country Thursday, attempting to reinvigorate calls for immigration reform in a presidential election year in which the economy has taken center stage. From ...

From Michael Chertoff: When it comes to illegal immigration, the American people are tired of thirty years of lip service. They want our laws enforced. As Secretary of Homeland Security, I have directed my department to pursue that mandate, using all the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An election-year push in the U.S. Congress to clamp down on illegal immigration has stalled as concerns grow about the cost of verifying the status of millions of workers, a leading congressional Democrat said on Thursday. Rep. ...

Now that US customs agents have unfettered access to laptops and other electronic devices at borders, a coalition of travel groups, civil liberties advocates and technologists is calling on Congress to rein in the Department of Homeland Security's search ...

Washington/Los Angeles - Thousands of people took to the streets across the United States on Thursday in immigration protests on May Day, calling for a comprehensive solution to the country's immigrant laws that has stalled in the US Congress. Some of ...

Editor's note: Here are the latest entries from Hammond Law Group's blog On Wednesday Reps. Lofgren, Davis, and Sensenbrenner introduced H.R. 5882, to ?recapture? employment-based (EB) green cards that Congress authorized in the past but that went ...