Facing Deportation but Clinging to Life in U.S.
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Over the last year, illegal immigrants and their families have retreated from community life under the pressure of tougher federal and local enforcement.
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"It's a horrible feeling to think I may be deported."  A U.S. citizen who moved to Scotland at the start of the Great Depression said Friday that she could be deported from Britain as an illegal immigrant and was scared of returning to an America she didn't remember.Marguerite Grimmond, 80, was born in Detroit, but at the age of two she moved to Arbroath in northeast Scotland with her Scottish mother.In May, she traveled outside of Britain for first time since 1929 on a family vacation to Australia. But when she returned, immigration officials at London's Heathrow Airport said she did not have the necessary permit to remain in Britain, Grimmond said. Read more
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A woman who moved to the US as a baby and later won a California council seat faces deportation for illegally voting.
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ederal and city officials said yesterday they had arrested scores of immigrants in New York City, who were facing possible deportation to their home countries because of their convictions in sex crimes.
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Fundamental issues of ethnic and religious identity and the agony of exile are at the heart of âLive and Become.â
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Foreign-born New Yorkers who plead guilty to misdemeanors are increasingly being turned over to immigration authorities for deportation.
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Former paramilitaries have been threatened with deportation from the United States since new anti-terrorism laws were introduced after Sept. 11, 2001.
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Resistance to barrier between U.S., Mexico raises concerns about feasibility, potential effectiveness.
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A Detroit outsider faces an industry slump and a tough economy.
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In far smaller numbers than they did this spring, supporters of illegal immigrants marched in several U.S. cities Monday, calling for them to be given the chance to live and work freely in the United States.
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A Cuban father allowed his young daughter to emigrate legally to the United States with her mother to find a better life. But months later, the mother has become incapable of caring for the girl and the father wants to take the child home.
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SCRANTON, Pennsylvania  - A Pennsylvania town's anti-illegal-immigration law created a climate of fear in which businesses failed and people moved out, a lawyer argued on Monday as a trial seen as a test of U.S. immigration policy began.
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With the immigration debate focused on 10 million to 12 million immigrants who have come to the United States illegally, hundreds of thousands of others who have obeyed the law are disappointed by the legislation now pending in Congress.
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Family detention centers for illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in the United States are like prisons, where residents face harsh discipline and lack adequate health care, two advocacy groups said on Thursday.
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The political crisis unfolding in Ukraine has brought both hope, despair, and worry to Ukrainian immigrants in Maine.
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- A life capsized has stranded Jose de Jesus Torres atop these craggy cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Waves crash and dolphins dance as this modern-day cliff dweller waits for another opportunity to cross the US border.
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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico  - Illegal immigrants from Latin America are heading deeper into the United States to find work and avoid deportation as crackdowns in border states like Texas and Arizona make life more difficult for them.