IMMIGRATION

Mexican soldiers found 140 migrants inside a truck in the state of Chiapas near the Guatemalan border.

Illegal immigration is the issue of the week in Frederick County, Maryland following an incident last week in which an illegal immigrant was charged with murder.

The U.S. Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court Thursday to refuse to hear a case challenging Arizona's anti-immigration law.

A powerful Republican state Senate leader who championed Arizona's controversial crackdown on illegal immigrants appeared headed for early removal from office in a historic recall election, returns showed Tuesday night.

A powerful Republican state Senate leader who spearheaded Arizona's controversial crackdown on illegal immigrants appeared headed for defeat Tuesday night in a historic recall election, early returns showed.

Russell Pearce, the Senate President of Arizona and author of controversial anti-illegal immigration bill SB 1070, is facing a recall election Tuesday.

A boat full of more than 70 asylum seekers headed for Australia capsized off the coast of the island of Java on Tuesday, drowning at least eight people, including three children.

The U.S. Department of Justice has been filing lawsuits against states that have passed anti-immigration laws.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the House Judiciary Committee that instead of enforcing the Alabama immigration Law, her department has been working with the Justice Department to challenge it.

With ongoing turmoil in Africa and the Middle East, illegal immigration is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge in Europe.

Arizona had claimed that the U.S. abdicated its responsibility in enforcing immigration laws.

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.