Gay activists protested Sen. Marco Rubio after same-sex couples were left out immigration reform bill.
Immigration activists in Miami on Wednesday marked International Workers Day with a vehicle caravan from Little Havana to Doral to urge Congress to speed immigration reform and President Barack Obama to halt deportations of undocumented immigrants.
Paola Arango and Bruce Eckel are married, but she is still barred from returning to the U.S. from Colombia.
Feds say that figures show an increasing number of Cubans are arriving in the U.S. — but what the number is is not yet known.
A bipartisan group of senators formally filed an 844-page immigration bill, setting the stage for months of public debate about the proposal.
The highly anticipated proposal from an eight-member bipartisan group also aims to stem the flow of undocumented immigrants into the country by creating tens of thousands of new visas for foreign workers in low-skilled jobs, according to a 17-page summary of the bill obtained by The Washington Post.
New details of the massive immigration bill to be introduced in the Senate next week show it contains a list of tough requirements for undocumented immigrants to become citizens.
State representatives overwhelming voted in favor of a bill extending in-state college tuition rates to students born in the United States, but whose parents are undocumented immigrants. However, the Senate hasn’t yet had a hearing on the subject, lessening its chances of it becoming a law this session.
Of the 225 immigrants freed by U.S. authorities in Florida as a result of the sequester, 76 had prior convictions and 10 fell into the riskiest category.Of the 225 immigrants freed by U.S. authorities in Florida as a result of the sequester, 76 had prior convictions and 10 fell into the riskiest category.
Along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, there’s plenty of cynicism about ‘border security.’
A Supreme Court decision this spring could allow gay men and women to sponsor their foreign-born same-sex husbands and wives for residency in the United States.
One of Mexico's most powerful criminal gangs has muscled into the migrant-smuggling racket, changing what had been a relatively benign if risky industry of independent operators into a centralized business that often has deadly consequences for those who try to operate outside it.
Those suspected of being in the country illegally soon may have to prove they are U.S. citizens, at least in South Carolina. S.C. House members approved an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigrants by a 69-43 vote.
Palm Beach Police and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office are attempting to track five migrants who illegally came ashore near the Southern Boulevard Causeway Thursday night.
When the Senate refused to pass the immigration bill known as the Dream Act last week, a bunch of undocumented young people in South Florida found themselves on the wrong side of the nation's contentious political divide.
A controversial bill that would have granted legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented students was blocked once again in the Senate Saturday.
Immigrants who want to come here can't simply get in line because often there isn't a line. The government has a guest-worker program designed to fill seasonal jobs, but California's Central Valley farmers say it's too difficult to use. So they keep hiring illegal immigrants.
States that had been watching Arizona's immigration law in hopes of copying it received a rude awakening when a judge put most of the measure on hold and agreed with the Obama administration's core argument that immigration enforcement is the role of the federal government.
Civil rights advocates vowed Saturday to challenge Arizona's tough new law targeting illegal immigration, saying it will lead to racial profiling of Hispanics despite the governor's assurance abuses won't be tolerated.
Ten Haitian immigrants were in custody Tuesday morning after coming ashore in Pompano Beach overnight, Border Patrol agents report.
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