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Supporters of immigration reform are making another push to pass a congressional bill that would give undocumented farm workers a path to permanent residency and ultimately citizenship.

Crowds gathered downtown in Telluride for a candlelight vigil on Saturday night as part of an effort to raise awareness about immigration reform. Here, Elisa Marie Overall of One Telluride, a local immigrant integration advocacy organization, addresses the crowd in Spruce Street Park. [Photo by Merrick Chase]

Obama's pursuit of immigration reform this year must focus on the bipartisan idea of a national worker ID. It would do more than the jobs bill to open up work for the unemployed.

Her words reduced us to tears. Beatrice Vasques, a 15-year-old born in LA, came home from school one day to find her mom arrested and deported by immigration officers.

During their day-to-day activities in public, some 10 million people in the United States live a lie. They pretend to be legal residents when they are not.

A local federal judge calls it the most "bizarre, Alice-in-Wonderland" scenario he ever has encountered in the world of government prosecutions.

Should undocumented college students who attended K-12 school in Oregon pay out-of-state or in-state tuition at the University of Oregon, Oregon State and other public institutions?

Supporters of immigration reform are making another push to pass a congressional bill that would give undocumented farm workers a path to permanent residency and ultimately citizenship. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the sponsor of the AgJobs bill in the Senate, and representatives Howard Berman, D-Van Nuys, Calif., and Adam Putnam, R-Bartow, Fla., are backing it in the House.

The only way to see or speak to Moses Ssentamu is through a Plexiglas window at the West Japan Immigration Center in Ibaraki City, so there is no independent way to verify his claims of physical and psychological abuse. But if true, they raise serious concerns about Japan's treatment of visa overstayers and asylum seekers. Did a group of security guards at the center punch and kick Ssentamu in a ...

Idaho lawmakers balked Monday at sweeping immigration legislation proposed by state Sen. Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden Lake, that sought to penalize employers who hire illegal workers and enact an array of other provisions, from penalizing "sanctuary cities" to requiring driver’s license tests to be in English.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama promised to tackle comprehensive immigration reform in 2010. The administration--which has been focused on issues including healthcare and financial reform--is considering reviving this initiative before congressional midterm elections.

Crowds gathered downtown in Telluride for a candlelight vigil on Saturday night as part of an effort to raise awareness about immigration reform. Here, Elisa Marie Overall of One Telluride, a local immigrant integration advocacy organization, addresses the crowd in Spruce Street Park. [Photo by Merrick Chase]

Gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner will discuss his proposals for tax cuts and illegal immigration Monday at a meeting of the San Diego County Federation of Republican Women.

Crowds gathered downtown in Telluride for a candlelight vigil on Saturday night as part of an effort to raise awareness about immigration reform. Here, Elisa Marie Overall of One Telluride, a local immigrant integration advocacy organization, addresses the crowd in Spruce Street Park. [Photo by Merrick Chase]

In this nation, where nearly anyone has a relative who first stepped on foot on American soil from a boat, it’s something of a paradox that we make it tough to immigrate. “I’ve got mine,” we seem to say, “so shut out the rest.”

Texas native Joe Vasquez will become the first Mexican-American bishop to serve Central Texas when he is installed as bishop Monday in Austin. He will lead a Mass on March 15 in Waco.

As a little boy growing up in a West Texas town of 3,000, Joe Vasquez went with his grandparents to Catholic Mass every day. Vasquez remembers being awestruck at the priests and their abilities to connect with parishioners.