U.S. illegal immigrants 'self deport' as woes mount
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Mexican illegal immigrant Lindi sat down with her husband Marco Antonio in the weeks before Christmas to decide when to go back to Mexico.
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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 intense debate over illegal immigration has made life more difficult for U.S. Hispanics, the fastest-growing minority in the country, with many fearing deportation and having difficulty finding work and housing, study found.
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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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For dozens of illegal immigrant families, a gymnasium outside Paris has become a temporary home. They sleep shoulder-to-shoulder, their dingy mattresses piled high with necessities and small treasures: cooking pans, diapers, stuffed animals.
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Amadou Diouf, an immigrant from Senegal, says U.S. agents injected him with drugs against his will as he was about to be deported in February 2007.
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Authorities are targeting some employers the same way they go after drug dealers. But advocates say it does little to solve the problem of illegal workers in the U.S.
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The weakening economy coupled with recent curbs on illegal immigration are steering immigrants away.
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The measure would have required illegal immigrants to return home before obtaining temporary legal status.
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More than two dozen illegal immigrants were picked up for deportation as part of an immigration sweep targeting contractors at a U.S. Navy base in Southern California.
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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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Clutching a photo of her son, Maria Carvajal walks Tijuana's sweltering streets searching for the mentally disabled man she says was deported more than a month ago despite being a U.S. citizen and then disappeared in this chaotic border city.
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Fear of deportation is one of the many obstacles preventing illegal immigrants who lost their homes or jobs during Hurricane Charley from seeking disaster relief. The language barrier is also a problem, and undocumented workers can't apply for cash assistance, although they are eligible for food and temporary shelter.
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New feelings of insecurity in immigrant communities is helping fuel a rise in the number of legal immigrants seeking to become United States citizens.
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Messages reminding people not to overstay their visas are part of a government drive to clamp down on immigration.
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A cry is rising that illegal immigrants are being &quot;criminalized&quot; because the state Department of Motor Vehicles is cracking down on people who used fake Social Security numbers to get driver&#39;s licenses. Well, guess what? Anyone who does that is a ...
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At least 25 foreign-born surviving spouses and perhaps many more -- most of them widows -- are on the brink of deportation, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington.