Illegal students await immigration plan
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At 23, Mariana should be carefree. She is finishing up her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been accepted to a master's program at Harvard University's education school.
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Illegal immigrants could fall prey to loan sharks and other unscrupulous lenders if they have to pay $5,000 in fines and thousands more in fees and back taxes as required under the immigration reform measure now before Congress, some advocates are warning.
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Senators are betting the U.S. would benefit from giving most illegal immigrants the chance to become American citizens &amp;#151; highlighting their resolve to pass a landmark immigration overhaul.
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PHOENIX, Ariz./MONTERREY, Mexico  - An  Arizona-based citizens group is recruiting hundreds of  volunteers to patrol the border with Mexico this spring, saying  that U.S. government has failed to stem the flow of illegal  immigrants.
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Ines Olivia Martinez wonders if her family will be denied medical care. Even her mentally disabled 13-year-old son has been anxiously pointing out police cars amid fears of a local crackdown on illegal immigrants. Resolutions to deny a potentially wide range of public services to illegal immigrants have thrust two northern Virginia counties into the nation's immigration debate.
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HAZLETON, Pa. - Officials in this city plan to meet Friday to consider toning down one of the nation's toughest laws targeting the employers of illegal immigrants.  The revised law would still impose $1,000-a-day fines on anyone who employs someone unauthorized to work in the United States.
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By Deborah Bulkeley Deseret Morning News  A proposal to give qualified undocumented students a pathway to legal status through education or military service has re-emerged in Congress.
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In many towns that have enacted laws to target illegal immigrants, substantial consequences have followed.
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Frustrated with Congress's inability to pass an immigration overhaul bill, state legislatures are considering or enacting a record number of strongly worded proposals targeting illegal immigrants.
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Americans want to allow illegal immigrants to gain legal status and to create a guest worker program, a Times/CBS News poll found.
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While Congress keeps debating immigration reform, cities are passing their own laws to try to deter undocumented workers from coming to town
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The move had been thought to be at odds with Gov. Eliot L. Spitzerâs plan to allow illegal immigrants to apply for driverâs licenses.
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In California, illegal immigrants and US citizens alike debate tighter ID requirements.
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With the immigration debate focused on the estimated 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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Jason Woodward, 31, a financial analyst in Clarksville, Tenn., says that putting illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship would be issuing a "free pass for lawbreakers" but that an attempt to deport 12 million of them would be "wasting millions of taxpayer dollars."
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Congress should take tough steps to stop the flow of illegal immigrants, House Republicans agreed Tuesday, while putting off the question of whether undocumented workers already in the country should be given a path toward legal status.
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Malaysia appears to delay the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal foreign workers.