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By Jim Kouri (AXcess News) New York - The Obama Administration recently appointed a police chief -- who believes in illegal alien sanctuary city policies -- to command an immigration enforcement program that entails federal agents working with local ...

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama told Latino and other groups that Republicans are being excessively partisan during an election year, and accused the opposition party of delaying reform of the immigration system. Republicans responded that Obama's ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.Following remarks today by President Obama on the urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform, the U.S. Chamber of Commerces Senior Vice President of Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits, Randel K. Johnson, issued the ...

Mexico is increasing the penalties for migrant trafficking as drug gangs increasingly get involved in the lucrative business. ...

Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and associate research professor of public policy studies at Duke University. An expert on immigration, citizenship and national identity. He is the author of 'True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American ...

Wang Rong, who is six-months pregnant, is about to leave Beijing for California so she can give birth to her baby in the United States and give the child its first gift -- US citizenship. More Chinese women are traveling to America to give birth. The ...

The American people are frustrated by the broken immigration system and the federal government's refusal to fix it. And today President Barack Obama outlined his plans to tackle this seemingly intractable problem. The need is urgent. Arizona's ...

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Thursday blamed US immigration policy gridlock on "political posturing and special interest wrangling." Seeking to rally new momentum to an issue that many advocates had hoped would be completed by this point, Obama ...

Federal officials have deported a New Zealand drug dealer who kept his dead girlfriend's body on dry ice in a swanky Newport Beach hotel after she died of an overdose. ...

DOUGLAS, Ariz. -- A Customs and Border Protection officer was nearly stabbed as a U.S. citizen was re-entering the country from Mexico at the Douglas port-of-entry Thursday afternoon. The Border Patrol says officers were screening pedestrian traffic when ...

Fox News Poll finds that Americans think lawmakers' work on new immigration legislation should be secondary to the federal government stemming the tide of illegal border crossing. | 21 Dead in Gang Battle Near Arizona After Assassination, Mexico Offers ...

Yesterday afternoon, just a couple hours after the President's speech, we held a first-of-its-kind event here at the White House -- maybe anywhere? -- in which we took questions from the public on every side of the immigration debate. We hosted Cecilia ...

GOP politicians and conservative pundits unleashed some verbal fireworks heading into the July 4 weekend by slamming President Obama's immigration speech. Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's former adviser, led the charge, ripping apart Obama's ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. Federal officials have deported a New Zealand drug dealer who kept his dead girlfriend's body on dry ice in a swanky Newport Beach hotel after she died of an overdose. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Stephen David Royds was ...

President Obama came out for comprehensive immigration reform yesterday in his first speech on the subject, it will take more than talk. Despite the presidential pontificating and a push by such luminaries as Michael Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch, ...

They respond to his immigration speech by demanding he come see the problem for himself. ...

When President Barack Obama could have passed comprehensive immigration reform, when he still had 60 Senate Democrats, he didn't lift a finger to push it. Now that he can't pass it it is too late in the year, he doesn't have 60 votes, and many ...

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On Thursday, President Obama gave first speech devoted to immigration since taking office. Host Michel Martin speaks with undocumented immigrant Gaby Pacheco of Miami for her reaction to the speech. 's regular contributor Ruben Navarrette weighs in as ...