Immigration Bond

Since taking office, President Barack Obama has seemed intent on keeping the politically explosive issue of immigration on the back burner.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — A gunman entered an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton on Friday, shot at least four people and took as many as 41 hostage, according to media reports.

Police are grappling with a tense hostage situation in downtown Binghamton, N.Y., where a gunman has shot four people and taken at least 40 hostages at a local immigration services centre.

President Barack Obama has begun refocusing some of the more controversial immigration practices of the Bush administration, delaying some worksite raids and shifting the focus of others from workers and onto business owners.

At least four people were shot and as many as 41 people taken hostage Friday morning at an immigration services center in Binghamton, according to media reports.

At least four people were shot and several people taken hostage at an immigration services center in Binghamton, N.Y.

  If the May 12 immigration raid at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, was meant to send a message, that message was that the U.S. immigration system needs repair, said two people working on the frontlines in Postville since the raid.

BINGHAMTON, New York — At least four people were shot and dozens of people were taken hostage Friday at an immigration services center, according to police and news reports.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent from Weston is expected to plead guilty today to taking more than $15,000 in kickbacks from two informants who worked for him, the Miami Herald reports.

Four people have been reported to be shot and dozens others taken hostage at an immigration services center in New York on Friday.