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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]

Door creaks ajar for undocumented Haitians in the US

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lindsey Graham is wading back into the immigration reform debate, a political minefield that has prompted conservative activists across the nation to vilify him ever since he helped lead a failed Senate bid to overhaul the immigration system in 2007.

A group of business owners from the Northwest suburbs has called on Sen. Dick Durbin to lead Congress in reforming the country's immigration system, which they said could be the "recipe" needed to stimulate the country's struggling economy.

Three years after efforts by Congress to reform the immigration system went down in flames, the issue is slowly re-emerging onto the national stage as two senators from the opposite sides of the political aisle work on crafting another bill.

But tensions remain, including finding a second GOP co-sponsor.

Panel: Stopping 'Hate' Is Really about Stopping Debate

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]

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.