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PHOENIX - Republican Sen. John McCain, who once championed a path to citizenship for the nation's roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants, is now pushing for a crackdown on illegals amid the toughest re-election fight of his career. McCain's hardline ...

The Mexican embassy in the United States has written to the U.S. government expressing 'grave concern for the potentially serious consequences' of a controversial law targeting migrants in the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona, the Mexican Foreign ...

A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbold, also known as the WartHog, flies at low altitude over an airshow in Quebec in 2003. Planes like these, dispatched from Michigan, are flying over Sarnia, Ont., on a regular basis. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press) First ...

WINSLOW, Ariz. In the days since it became clear that Arizona would pass the nation's toughest law targeting illegal immigrants, this congenial Old West outpost has shown signs of splintering, with neighbors turning against neighbors and police worried ...

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Opponents of the Senate Bill 1070 held a vigil outside the State Capitol during the lunch-hour Monday, showing solidarity in their hope for her veto. (John Pellizzari) Passage sends the bill to Gov. Jan Brewer, who has not taken a position on the measure ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates famously declared last year that should have 'an exception for smart people.' And now with immigration reform poised to possibly be the next political hot button issue, a growing chorus of people is saying just that. They're ...

PHOENIX -- The Arizona House on Monday voted for a provision that would require President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate if he hopes to be on the state's ballot when he runs for reelection. The House voted 31-22 to add the provision to a ...

PHOENIX The Arizona House has approved a bill that would require President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate if he hopes to be on the state's ballot for a re-election bid. The House approved the measure on a 31-29 vote, sending it to the ...

The Seattle Times reports 'An illegal immigrant who lived in Washington for 17 years before being deported to Mexico three years ago may have the rare chance to come back for an immigration hearing after an appeals board, citing ineffective legal ...

Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Tracey and Charles Washington went public with their immigration plight this week. (04-21) 17:34 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco bus driver's wife and two stepsons won the right to remain in the United States on Wednesday ...

First it was an American spy balloon floating over Sarnia, Ont., that irked the city's mayor now it's American combat jets. Mike Bradley says residents of the city of 72,000 on the border with Port Huron, Mich., have been complaining for months about the ...

LOS ANGELES, April 21 (UPI) -- A government attorney in Los Angeles has been convicted of accepting bribes from illegal immigrants in exchange for helping them get benefits, officials said. Constantine Peter Kallas, assistant chief counsel at the U.S. ...

By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in Congress may try to win passage of contentious immigration reform legislation this year in a move that could further harm prospects for a climate-change bill, congressional ...

President Obama phoned Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., from Air Force One today to give the senator a heads-up: Democrats' plans for "comprehensive" immigration reform are on the way.According to the , between topics like basketball and financial reform, ...

Seizures of heroin, cocaine and marijuana at Canada-U.S. border crossings have increased since 1997, according to the U.S. Justice Department. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press) Congress should force the White House to create an anti-drug-smuggling strategy ...

The Obama administration is mulling its options on immigration reform, which it has labeled a top priority. - More - ...

DEMOCRATIC leaders in the US Congress may try to win passage of contentious immigration reform legislation this year in a move that could further harm prospects for a climate-change bill, congressional aides said yesterday.... ...

Updated: one minute ago Print Text Size E-mail More Steve Pendlebury Editor AOL News (April 21) -- President Barack Obama must feel like he's on a roll. With health care reform signed into law and hints of progress toward new rules for Wall Street, ...

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says violence in Arizona by criminal illegal aliens has reached 'epidemic proportions.' He spoke at a Capitol Hill news conference on Monday, April 19, 2010. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) Law enforcement ...