At least 75 per cent of respondents would increase fines for employers who hire illegal immigrants, require police to report illegal immigrants to federal government, and make it a crime to hire illegal immigrants.

A crackdown on illegal immigrants south of the border has caused a ripple effect in Peel Region, as taxpayers have so far doled out more than $70,000 in accommodation bills for people claiming refugee status in Canada.

The U.S. Border Patrol plans to announce today a "zero tolerance" operation to prosecute, jail and deport all illegal immigrants caught in the bustling Laredo area, marking a significant tightening of immigration enforcement along a key U.S. border corrid

Ramon Morales timed it, and when U.S. Border Patrol agents weren't around, he ran. He hurdled over rocks and sagebrush into the United States on Sept. 2 - about three weeks after he learned of a Bush administration plan to tackle illegal immigration by fo

Pat McDonough, a Republican who represents portions of Baltimore and Harford counties, is making a new push to make it more difficult for illegal workers to stay here. He told ABC-2 News, “We are in probably the worst state in the nation when it comes t

Immigration hawks have been on a winning streak lately. An unprecedented surge of public outrage at the prospect of amnesty for illegal immigrants led to the defeat in June of the Senate immigration bill. And that was merely the latest in a series of vict

The Homeland Security Department is suing Illinois to undo a new state law the federal agency says would make it more difficult to enforce the nation's immigration laws. The law is an amendment to Illinois's “Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act" which

When the Bush administration announced a crackdown on companies suspected of employing illegal immigrants last month, labor unions, business and immigrant rights groups shuddered. The unions feared mass firings, including the wrongful dismissal of many le