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The letter comes about two months after another group of elected officials in the state, including 19 New York City Council members, sent a similar letter to Mr. Cuomo part of a growing national chorus of hostility to the enforcement initiative, which ...

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Pressure is mounting across the country against illegal immigrants in American schools. In some areas, schools are responding to shrinking budgets and growing student populations by trying to root out non-citizen students. While federal law restricts ...

EL PASO, Texas -- President Barack Obama will stand on the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday and try to take credit for something that eluded predecessors in both parties: successfully cracking down on illegal immigration. It is a record that Republicans ...

Trying not to let nerves get the best of her, Kadean Ellis eagerly waited for ...

PR Newswire WASHINGTON, May 9, 2011 WASHINGTON, May 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC), which represents the interests of nearly 3 million Hispanic-owned businesses and over 200 local Hispanic ...

PHOENIX Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Monday she will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that put the most controversial parts of the states immigration enforcement law on hold. The planned appeal to the high court comes after Brewer ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) Arizona will take its fight over a controversial immigration law direct to the US Supreme Court, the southwestern state's governor said Monday. Jan Brewer said the law, which came into force last year but with key parts frozen by a ...

Thousands of Mexicans thronged the streets of their embattled nation this weekend demanding an end to drug war bloodshed with a national march entitled "We've had it UP TO HERE." [VIDEO, above] Meanwhile, on the U.S. side of the border, dozens of ...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona's Republican Governor Jan Brewer said on Monday she would immediately petition the to lift an injunction blocking key parts of the state's controversial crackdown on illegal immigrants. Brewer signed the law in April 2010 ...

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is taking the state's appeal of immigration law to U.S. Supreme Court. ...

WASHINGTON White House aides are touting President Barack Obamas impending trip to the Texas-Mexico border as a sign hes serious about overhauling immigration policy after mostly leaving the issue on the back burner until now. This is an ...

(CNN) -- Twelve suspected members of the Zetas drug gang and a member of Mexico's Navy were killed in a shootout on an island in a lake that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said Monday. The Mexican Navy said the shootout occurred Sunday on ...

President Obama is selling his immigration policy by stressing past support for it -- past Republican support. ...

PHOENIX -- The planned appeal to the high court comes after Brewer lost an initial appeal April 11, when a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reverse a lower court's order that prevented key parts of the law from being ...

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer wants the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that put the most controversial parts of the state's immigration enforcement law on hold. The appeal comes after Brewer lost an initial appeal April 11, when a three-judge ...

Washington, May 9 (EFE).- President Barack Obama plans to renew in El Paso, Texas, his plea for immigration reform, while Republicans demand greater presence of the National Guard on the southern border. The visit to El Paso is part of the new impetus ...

I cannot guarantee that it is going to be in the first 100 days, then-candidate Barack Obama told Univisions Jorge Ramos in May of 2008. But what I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly ...

PR Newswire WASHINGTON, May 9, 2011 WASHINGTON, May 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A coalition of African-American, Caribbean-American and Hispanic-American pastors will hold a joint press conference on Tuesday, May 10 at 2:30 p.m. to respond to ...

After two instances in which deportations were suspended in immigration cases involving same-sex couples, the Justice Department has cautioned that it will continue to enforce a law that bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. A ...