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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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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 ...

LOS ANGELES - Thousands of immigrants and rights groups were preparing to march throughout the United States on Thursday, renewing calls for reform to help bring 12 million illegal workers out of the shadows. Tens of thousands of marchers were expected ...

(CNN) -- Thousands of demonstrators gathered in U.S. cities Thursday to protest federal immigration raids and deportations and to call for comprehensive immigration reform. Demonstrators wave a huge flag quilt Thursday before an immigration rally in ...

PRINCE WILLIAM, Virginia (CNN) -- Equipped with a small video camera, a laptop and a point of view, filmmakers Eric Byler and Annabel Park are trying to influence the heated immigration debate in a suburban Virginia county outside Washington. The YouTube ...

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 ...

Anne Hobbs was angry. The head of the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission had just learned of a Hispanic couple who said their landlord asked for their driver's licenses but didn't ask the same of non-Hispanic tenants. Hobbs said it sounded like the ...

SASABE, Mexico: The sandy streets of Sasabe are empty. Migrant smugglers have to hunt for business at border-town shelters. Deported migrants give up after one try, taking their government up on free bus rides home. A U.S. crackdown is causing the ...

Feminist Daily News Wire A panel of judges for the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on Tuesday in the case of three women who were denied asylum by the Board of Immigration Appeals after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) in ...

The worst fears of H-1B critics has been confirmed: A new study published today by Dr. Norman Matloff - professor of computer science at the University of California - Davis, unmasks that Cisco and Microsoft are NOT using the H-1B visa program to hire ...

CHICAGO - Thousands of immigrants and activists gathered in cities across the country Thursday to demand comprehensive immigration reform, including citizenship opportunities for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.Turnout has fallen ...