IMMIGRATION

The number of those detained peaked in March 2011, when police were holding nearly 28,000 people.

The measure comes after an extremist Lebanese Muslim cleric mysteriously obtained a valid Nigerian visa.

Indian outsourcing providers, major beneficiaries of the U.S. H-1B visa program, have faced repeated scrutiny for their labor practices.

Sarah Palin, who is popular among some U.S. conservatives, said that "a unifying aspect of a nation is the language that is understood by all."

Republicans in Iowa, many of them flocking to Donald Trump, have expressed alarm at a rising immigrant population in their state.

A libertarian group criticized the report because its authors conflate immigration policy with public assistance programs.

As Bush picks up his efforts to take down Trump, the candidates are beating at one another over conservative credentials and Spanish.

A new poll released on Wednesday had Donald Trump leading the pack of Republican candidates for president.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush seems to be picking up the pace, attacking rival Donald Trump more often on Twitter.

As thousands of men, women and children -- many fleeing Syria's civil war -- continued to arrive from the east, authorities let thousands of undocumented people travel on towards Germany.

The Mexican government filed a brief Monday in support of immigrant parents who sued the state after their American-born children were not granted birth certificates.

"We must send them back to their own countries," said Marine Le Pen, leader of France's right-wing nationalist party.

Bush, while trying to temper his own "anchor babies" comment, dismissed Trump's border wall plan as "a great sound bite" but not practical or "conservative."

As the war of words and would-be presidential policies, especially on immigration, heats up between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor is taking a trip Monday to the Texas-Mexico border.

A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to comply with her order on undocumented immigrant children in detention centers within the next two months.

A federal judge describes as "deplorable" the conditions under which hundreds of undocumented immigrant children are being held in family detention centers.

Donald Trump is slamming the H-1B specialty visa program -- while using it to hire foreign-born models for his agency.

The Persian Gulf state, which will host soccer's World Cup in 2022, has come under intense scrutiny for the exploitation of migrant laborers.

Police thought initially there were 20 people in the group.

Under U.S. asylum law, persecution must be on account of a person’s race, religion, nationality, or political opinion.

Republicans were more likely than Democrats to be worried about undocumented immigrants' effect on the workforce.