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In a joint statement issued late Tuesday, US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) said they would reexamine two provisions of a contentious immigration bill passed by the House...

A series of speakers in the Arizona State Legislature offered stinging criticism in floor speeches Monday of demonstrators who marched in support of a chance for citizenship for illegal immigrants in the US. A group...

Large numbers of immigrants and supporters assembled in cities across the United States Monday for a National Day of Action for Immigrant Justice , urging lawmakers to make it easier for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants...

President Bush indicated in his weekly radio address Saturday that he would not support any immigration reform that would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. Although he continued to call for a temporary guest worker...

Former immigration official Michael Maxwell testified about alleged widespread corruption and security vulnerabilities within the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) before the US House Committee on International Relations on Thursday. Maxwell, who resigned in February as...

US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) , Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and eleven other senators announced Thursday that party leaders have hammered out a compromise immigration reform bill that...

JURIST Guest Columnist Bill Hing of UC Davis School of Law says that immigration legislation now being debated in Congress presents lawmakers with a moral choice, and that in its own economic, social, and national security interests it's time for...

Unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the United States before an as-yet-undetermined cutoff date would be allowed to apply for permanent residency provided they pay fines and back taxes and learn English under the latest alternative immigration reform [JURIST news...

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said in a press conference Tuesday that he likely does not have the 60 Senate votes required to overcome the expected procedural maneuverings of conservatives who oppose his bipartisan guest-worker plan, supported by...

The United Kingdom launched its first non-police law enforcement agency Monday - the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) - modeled after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US....