Immigration Bond

Update | 6:00 p.m. Clarifying how much Google spends on visa adminstration. My article in The New York Times on Sunday about immigration and the tech industry left out a central character, Google’s immigration fixer.

The Justice Department official, who was charged with cracking down on illegal immigration in the 1990s, will oversee efforts to end drug-cartel violence and slow the tide of people crossing illegally into the United States.

Advocates on both sides of immigration overhaul debate crank up lobbying efforts The battle has begun again.

Labor giants AFL-CIO and Change to Win came together Tuesday to promote a jointly drafted proposal for comprehensive immigration legislation, forming an unprecedented unified front that members hope will boost the chances that a bill is considered in Congress this year.

Union leaders said Tuesday they have set aside differences to agree on a unified immigration overhaul plan they hope will win passage in Congress this year.

U.S. immigration agents arrived Tuesday at John Demjanjuk’s suburban Cleveland home to deport him to Germany, where an arrest warrant alleges the frail 89-year-old was a Nazi death camp guard, his son said.

A speech by immigration hawk and former Republican Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo ended abruptly Tuesday night at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after the event degenerated into a brief verbal confrontation between student activists and Tancredo himself, and culminated with a protester shattering a window.

In his new book Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies argues that immigration may have been good for America a century ago but not today—not because the immigrants have changed but because our nation has changed.

Immigration advocates say that with one spouse gone, once self-sufficient families are forced to seek food stamps and other government assistance With her two children to feed and her husband recently deported to Haiti, Jocelyne Jules says she had no choice but to sign up for food stamps.

Latinos in New Jersey, including those who are here legally, are being reported to immigration officials after such routine things as traffic stops, says a Seton Hall University Law School report released today.