I really wish that the media would quit referring to illegal aliens as immigrants. They are not remotely the same thing. The difference between an immigrant and an illegal alien is the difference between the person who you let into your home after he knoc

The city’s Human Rights Commission may set up a rapid response network to spread information to immigrant communities during times of crisis. At a community meeting in East Somerville Oct. 10 Human Rights Commissioner Mary Lu Mendonca said the move was

A high-ranking immigration official in Detroit has been charged with bribery and fraud for accepting money and expensive gifts in exchange for freeing numerous illegal immigrants, including one who later killed a college student and two registered sex off

Federal officers in Southern California over the last two weeks have arrested more than 1,300 immigrants, most of whom either have criminal records or have failed to abide by deportation orders -- part of an intensifying but controversial effort across th

The government has stepped up efforts to deport as many criminals as possible, but many are able to slip back into the country. Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not track how many deported criminals are re-captured inside the United States, but im

Governor Spitzer's decision to allow illegal immigrants in New York to obtain driver's licenses is coming under increasing assault on several fronts.

People who come into the United States illegally and then become victims of crime may get special protection from the U.S. government. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Wednesday announced an interim final rule that grants "temporar

(a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) el

Mr. Bush changed positions last April, embracing a path to citizenship, and in this new deal dropped his insistence on illegal aliens paying back taxes.

Laura Capps, a spokeswoman for Kennedy, said a provision for requiring back taxes was in Kennedy's original bill and that Chertoff called for it to be removed. "Chertoff thought it would be too challenging to accurately determine the amount of an applican