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Mitt Romney may face even more scrutiny for Romneycare.

Farmers in Alabama and other states that have recently passed tough immigration laws say they are unable to find American workers who are willing or capable of taking their places.

The two men touted as Republican frontrunners - Rick Perry and Mitt Romney - resisted, with great difficulty, an urge to get into a physical fight during a tense GOP presidential debate on Tuesday. In the midst of a heated verbal sparring session, Romney apparently tried to physically intimidate his opponent by placing a hand on his rival's shoulder, after being visibly annoyed by the Texas Gov.'s repeated interruptions.

Ever since Rick Perry's GOP rivals began lambasting him for signing a bill granting undocumented immigrant children in-state tuition at Texas universities, immigration has emerged as a key litmus test for verifying the conservative credentials of the men and women seeking the Republican nomination. It was not always so -- a debate between Bush and Reagan struck a far softer tone.

It what was probably Mitt Romney's worst debate so far, if only because Rick Perry wrested him from his seat of calm, cool, collected and reasonable, and thrust him into the dueling ring of anger.

The U.S. has deported 400,000 illegal immigrants in the past year, the largest one-year total ever, and an increasing number -- 55 percent -- were convicted criminals.

She is frequently described in the British press as a “rising star” in the Conservative Party and some believe she might one day become the first Asian Prime Minister of the U.K.

Herman Cain says he was just making a joke about deterring illegal immigrants from coming into America with electrocution at the border. His so-called joke, told to two crowds in Tennessee where the GOP presidential candidate was campaigning last week, went like this: It's giong to be 20 feet high, Cain said, according to The New York Times. It's going to have barbed wire at the top. It's going to be electrified. And there's going to be a sign on the other side saying, ...

Republican presidential hopefuls Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain had some strong words about illegal immigration this weekend when they campaigned in Iowa and Tennessee, respectively.

A U.S. appeals court panel placed a temporary injunction on enforcing part of the law requiring suspected illegal immigrants to carry papers and a part that makes schools collect the immigration status of new students and their parents.

The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday filed a class action suit to block South Carolina's anti-immigration law from going into effect next year, arguing that the law is unconstitutional and will lead to the detention of Hispanics. The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing South Carolina's law, slated to go into effect Jan. 1.

China's young migrant workers believe manufacturers can afford bigger pay rises and they are increasingly willing to strike to win them, according to a report that documents the spread of labor unrest across the country's export zones.

In some of his strongest rhetoric against the problem of illegal immigration to the United Kingdom, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has urged Britons to report such lawbreakers to the authorities so they can be deported.

At least one town in Alabama has warned undocumented immigrants that their water supply will be cut off if they cannot prove they are U.S. citizens.

U.S. Department of Justice has asked an appeals court to expedite its bid for an injunction against Alabama's immigration law.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed the second half of the two-part California Dream Act, which makes illegal immigrant students eligible for state-funded scholarships and aid at state universities.

Alabama agricultural commissioner suggests using prisoners to fill void migrant laborers left due to the tough anti-immigration law. A similar program in Georgia failed to fix farmers' problem.

More than 2,000 Hispanic students in Alabama missed school on Monday following a judge's decision to uphold the state's strict immigration law, which requires schools to verify the citizenship status of their students.

City Commissioners in Dayton, Ohio, approved an initiative that will make it easier for immigrants to live and thrive in the city.

Dayton, Ohio wants to be welcoming to all immigrants.

A judge's decision to uphold Alabama's stringent new immigration law has led immigrants to flee their homes, pull their children from school and avoid farming jobs at the height of harvesting season.