Linda Chavez – As someone who has long supported a major overhaul of our immigration laws, I'm sorry to say that President Obama's call this week for new legislation will only make matters worse. With unemployment hovering at almost 10 percent, the country is in no mood to increase the number of legal immigrants or temporary workers in the U.S.

At least 21 people have been killed after a gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the US border, prosecutors said

Is Obama attempting to portray those who are against illegal immigrants breaking our laws as racists?

WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama renewed his push for U.S. immigration reform on Thursday, reaching out to Hispanic voters despite minimal chances that Congress will pass such legislation this year.

Seeking to inject urgency into the push for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, President Obama on Thursday called on Republicans to join the effort, telling them he can't pass a bill without them.

PHOENIX – The nation's top civil liberties group on Wednesday issued travel alerts for Arizona, saying the state's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants could lead to racial profiling and warrantless arrests.

FoxNews.com's Joshua Rhett Miller reports from the border on whether the steep drop in illegal-immigrant arrests is just 'shoveling sand against the tide.'

1st municipality to fire all public employees after being forced into bankruptcy

Washington (CNSNews.com) – Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, whose agency is charged with securing America’s borders, told an audience in Washington, D.C., in reference to the U.S.-Mexico border, “You’re never going to totally seal that border.”

Under federal law, public schools must admit illegal immigrants. And Texas and some other states offer them college tuition breaks. But even if they excel – as some in Dallas have – they can't work legally without a Social

Gov. Jan Brewer defends comments that most illegal immigrants entering Arizona are hauling drugs across the border from Mexico, a remark blasted by critics as racist

Brewer's remarks are an expansion of comments she made last week during a televised debate among the four Republican gubernatorial candidates.

Critics say his pro-immigration policies enabled illegal immigrants to kill two police officers and seriously injure another in Phoenix before he left in 2005 and to kill an officer in Houston before he retired in 2009.

After emphasizing the Obama administration's commitment to comprehensive immigration reform, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano hit hard on the issue of border security during an address Thursday in Denver.

NEW YORK (AP)— Chief executives of several major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp., are joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form a coalition advocating for immigration reform – including a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States.

6.23.10 – Mexico files brief in Ariz. court claiming new immigration law is unconstitutional, promotes racial profiling

6.23. 10 -Ibram Rogers – Three Mexican-American scholars discuss Arizona’s immigration law and its ramifications on the state’s colleges and universities.