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(Updates with legislative details in second paragraph.) Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Justice Department asked a South Carolina federal judge today for an injunction in its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the states new immigration law, ...

The Arizona lawmaker who wrote the state's controversial immigration law goes before voters tomorrow in a historic recall election. Russell Pearce, president of the Arizona Senate, faces fellow Republican Jerry Lewis on Tuesday in a suburban Phoenix ...

Despite all the heat Rick Perry has taken for his stance on immigration, at least one politician is willing to go to bat for the Texas governor's record on the issue: Former President Bill Clinton. Clinton, in an interview with USA Today, praised Perry ...

Republican presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry received praise Monday from an unlikely source: former President Bill Clinton. Former President Bill Clinton attends the Starkey Hearing Foundation's 'So The World May Hear Awards Gala' 2011 ...

On Monday, Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry was lauded by an unlikely political figure former President Bill Clinton over the controversial ruling he signed into law in 2001 granting in-state tuition to children of ...

Illegal immigration has long been a hot button topic, almost since the inception of the federal law passed in 1875 that finally drew a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants. Back then the law applied to relatively few individuals (the law was ...

US closes the border to Mexican products Economic sanctions from US$1,000 to US$250,000 will be applied to big and small importers who don't follow the disposition. To control that, Customs and Border Protection agents are making detailed inspections at ...

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday he's encouraged that some states are allowing the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public colleges. As an example, Duncan pointed to Rhode Island, where this fall the Rhode Island Board ...

As portions of Alabama's law designed to curb illegal immigration remain on appeal , proposed changes by the U.S. Department of Labor to a federal visa program threaten to raise migrant labor costs by more than 50 percent in the state. Jim King, vice ...

THE Bureau of Immigration-Davao Region (BI-11) is set to deport the American-Indonesian national who was detained at BI Davao and National Bureau of Investigation-Davao Region (NBI-11) last month. Lawyer Arcelito Albao, NBI 11 spokesperson, in a text ...

A new report from the Applied Research Center (ARC) conservatively estimates that there are more than 5,000 children currently living in foster care whose parents have been either detained or deported. To date, there has been no national data available ...

(CNN) Bill Clinton came to Rick Perry's defense Monday over a law the Texas governor signed granting in-state college tuition to children of illegal immigrants. The former two-term Democratic president said it makes his "skin crawl" when Perry's ...

On Monday, Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry was lauded by an unlikely political figure former President Bill Clinton over the controversial ruling he signed into law in 2001 granting in-state tuition to children of ...

Mr Ameet Nivsarkar, Vice-President, Nasscom New Delhi, Nov. 7: There seem to be fewer takers for one of the most sought-after visas for techies to work in the US the H-1B visa. Even seven months after Washington opened the counter for the visa, only ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NAFSA: Association of International Educators today released a statement urging President Obama to lead a national conversation on immigration reform. The statement expresses deep concern about the ...

(CNN) Bill Clinton came to Rick Perry's defense Monday over a law the Texas governor signed granting in-state college tuition to children of illegal immigrants. The former two-term Democratic president said it makes his "skin crawl" when Perry's ...

On Monday, Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry was lauded by an unlikely political figure former President Bill Clinton over the controversial ruling he signed into law in... ...

- Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates. Cook Countys Immigration Law Now Part of National Debate Four U.S. Senators on the U.S. Senate Judicial Committee are calling a recently passed Cook County immigration ordinance a serious threat to the ...

1 Comment Have Your Say Email StorySend to a Friend Share ThisTell Your Friends Tweet ThisTweet This MoreShare It . Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the Clinton Foundation's "Decade of Difference" concert on Oct. 15, 2011, in Hollywood, Calif. ...

By Michael Cutler The administration has taken to the unprecedented tactic of providing huge numbers of illegal aliens with a de facto amnesty through the issue of policy directives to the employees of DHS that not only terminated deportation (removal) ...