Poll: Most oppose deporting illegal immigrants
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Most Americans would like there to be fewer illegal immigrants in the country, but only three in 10 say all of them should be deported, a CNN Opinion Research poll said Wednesday.
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A California Democrat is pushing a plan to allow the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country since Jan. 1 to remain, work and get a shot at citizenship as the Senate heads to a final vote on its sweeping immigration bill.
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The Senate plan to provide illegal immigrants with a shot at citizenship probably is a deal-breaker that will prevent passage of a compromise on immigration overhaul, the House&#039;s lead negotiator said Sunday.
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The ambitious immigration overhaul package that Congress is studying has drawn criticism from conservatives who say it offers amnesty to lawbreakers, and from immigration advocates who say it will not do enough to bring millions of people out of the shadows.
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Conservative Republican senators and a handful of Democrats are trying to put a final knife in President Bush's plan for legalizing millions of unlawful immigrants.
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A poll suggests that a large majority of Americans support restrictions on the use of Social Security numbers if it would help prevent identity theft.
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The issue of illegal immigration is gathering political force in Long Island, and as the complaints grow, politicians are responding with new laws.
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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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The United States expects to deport more than 200,000 immigrants this year who are serving time in prisons and jails across the country, the top U.S. immigration enforcement official said.
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Despite bipartisan opposition backed by religious and business leaders, Arizonans look set to carry an anti-immigrant ballot initiative
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The world is upside down. A posse of Republican lawmakers who, when opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants, like to talk about how rules must be followed and how we shouldn't reward lawbreakers. They're now demanding that a pair of convicted felons be rewarded with a presidential pardon.
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MADRID, Feb 7 (IPS) - The process of legalising the status of  undocumented  immigrants, which began Monday in Spain, will open  doors to foreign workers  who are already living in the country  in order to close them more tightly  against those who try to  enter in the future.
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The Senate&#039;s effort to curb illegal immigration involves the hiring of 14,000 Border Patrol agents, more detention centers to hold illegal immigrants and 370 miles of fencing. But those get-tough provisions aren&#039;t generating much support from a key GOP lawmaker in the House &amp;#151; at least not when combined with a provision that would allow millions of illegal immigrants already in the country a chance to become U.S. citizens.
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Illegal immigrants seeking to make a home in this northeastern Pennsylvania city could face barriers to finding a home and job after the city council passed one of the nation&#039;s strictest ordinances to fight illegal immigration.
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More than 60 percent of U.S. Border  Patrol agents and immigration officers said the Department of  Homeland Security could do more to stop potential terrorists  from entering the United States, a new study said.
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Several thousand immigrants and   their supporters -- far fewer than predicted -- rallied before   the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to urge Congress to make   citizenship possible for those who have entered the country   illegally.
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In the Nov. 3 BC-ELN--Texas Glance and BC-TX Exit-Poll Excerpts, The Associated Press overstated President Bush's support among Texas Hispanics. Under a post-election adjustment by exit poll providers Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International, 49 percent of Hispanics in the state voted for Bush, not a majority. The revised result does not differ to a statistically significant degree from Bush's 43 percent support among Texas Hispanics in a 2000 exit poll.