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The Rio Grande Valley area has become the busiest sector for illegal immigration on the entire U.S.-Mexico border with more than a 50 percent increase in the last year. (Photo by John Moore/). Copyright © 2013 . All rights reserved.and more »

A group from Germany will be visiting Hall County on Wednesday, looking to learn about American cultural life and political issues but particularly immigration. The group from the German-American Institute in Tuebingen, Germany, will discuss the issue as ...

A coalition of influential conservative leaders have published an open letter announcing their strong opposition to the 800-plus page Senate immigration reform bill. Conservatives blasted what they dubbed the Schumer-Rubio bill as a “bloated and unwieldy” ...and more »

Republicans in the House and Senate are insisting that a revision of immigration law include ways to prevent foreigners from staying in the U.S. on expired visas. A House panel will hear testimony today on the potential national security implications of ...and more »

Taiwanese immigration officials are set to visit various enclaves with large concentrations of Filipinos to ensure the safety of Filipino workers amid the row between the Philippines and Taiwan over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman. Officials from the ...and more »

The Senate Judiciary Committee will almost certainly pass the sprawling immigration overhaul bill by the end of the week, setting up a floor fight for early June. Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy has been pushing the panel to get its work done, holding a rare ...and more »

Business and government leaders across Arkansas say the challenges in the Internet Age present opportunities for success and failures. Navigating the rapidly changing landscape may be the highest hurdle to overcome. A Google+ Hangout chat, sponsored ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officials say the man who owns the SUV that struck and killed a Phoenix police officer is not in the country legally. Phoenix police arrested 24-year-old Jesus Cabrera Molina. He is the registered owner of a green Ford ...and more »

Several prominent conservative media figures are backing a new effort by groups who oppose bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform, signaling growing willingness from conservative outlets to marshal their audiences against the bill. Signatories on a ...and more »

A coalition of over 60 prominent conservative leaders has “serious concerns” about the proposed Senate immigration reform legislation, according to a letter that will be released on Tuesday. A wide range of right-leaning opinion-makers, including National ...and more »

WASHINGTON — Every immigrant leaving the United States through one of the 30 biggest airports would have to be fingerprinted by federal authorities under an immigration-reform measure that won early committee approval in the Senate on Monday.and more »

May 21, 2013 — As lawmakers in Washington debate the immigration reform bill released last month, farmers in New York State are hoping to find enough workers to fully staff their operations. The Senate Judiciary Committee spent a day last week amending ...and more »

A coalition of high-profile conservatives and tea party activists has signed a letter urging members of Congress to oppose a bipartisan Senate immigration bill, an attempt to increase public pressure just days before it faces an initial committee vote. In the letter ...and more »

A coalition of tea party organizations and conservative leaders will release a scathing letter Tuesday against the Senate Gang of Eight immigration bill, calling the legislation so “defective” that senators need to scrap it altogether. The letter, which includes ...and more »

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., joins other members of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, as lawmakers work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to ...and more »

WASHINGTON – Top conservative leaders, along with tea party activists from across the nation, have crafted a letter of opposition to the Senate's bipartisan immigration overhaul. The open letter to the Senate, which will be released Tuesday, marks the first ...and more »

A flurry of meetings — between Democratic leadership, top committee members, and rank-and-file Democrats, including the party's lawmakers on the House immigration group — illustrated that concern, and once again threw the group's prospects into doubt.and more »

As the committee convened for its fourth day of hearings, the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, which represents about 12,000 employees at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced its opposition, saying provisions in the ...and more »

Slow but sure seems to be working for the supporters of the Senate's immigration bill. With Washington distracted by scandals large and small, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued to chew its way through amendments to the bipartisan measure on ...and more »

Of course Milbank is writing about Sessions and his opposition to the immigration overhaul bill currently going through the Senate Judiciary Committee despite Sessions efforts to derail it. Milbank points out that no senator has talked more during the ...and more »

The organizations are part of a nationwide effort of Reform Immigration for Texas Alliance that is trying to reach an agreement on immigration reform. These letters call on Cornyn to protect the pathway to citizenship in the Senate bill, support legal and safe ...

Qatada, once dubbed Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, must remain in custody after immigration judge Stephen Irwin refused to grant him bail at Monday's hearing of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission in London. Handing down his ...and more »

Gay rights groups are pressuring Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), to offer an amendment allowing this, but Republican authors of the immigration bill insist that they'll abandon their support for their legislation if such a measure is included.and more »

As large businesses, labor organizations and interest groups promote their own agendas to fix our immigration laws, one voice that should be heard is that of the millions of small businesses across America that rely upon guest workers at their companies.and more »

A judge at Britain's Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) ruled on Monday that the preacher, once dubbed Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, should remain in custody. “There is no doubt about the national security threat which the ...and more »