Adolescentes paraguayas como esclavas sexuales en bares de Cancún, albañiles nicaragüenses en Tabasco, hondureñas limpiando casas en Mérida, guatemaltecos asentados en Campeche en remedos de sus pueblos de origen. Cubanos desde la Riviera Maya hasta Veracruz haciendo un poco de todo. Desde Panamá...

A federal appellate judge expressed deep skepticism Monday about a Justice Department lawsuit challenging Arizona’s new immigration law, leaving uncertain the Obama administration’s chances of stopping the law from taking effect. Judge John T. Noonan Jr. grilled administration lawyers...

Tomball City Council late Tuesday defeated a proposal to make English the city’s official language and voted down another measure seeking to prohibit illegal immigrants from renting or owning property or owning or operating a business there. Council also voted to keep the city’s day laborer...

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States, after peaking at 12 million in 2007, fell to about 11.1 million in 2009, the first clear decline in two decades, according to a report published Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center. The reduction came primarily from decreases among illegal immigrants...

The Department of Homeland Security is systematically reviewing thousands of pending immigration cases and moving to dismiss those filed against suspected illegal immigrants who have no serious criminal records, according to several sources familiar with the efforts. Culling the immigration court...

A federal investigation of a controversial Arizona sheriff known for tough immigration enforcement has intensified in recent days, escalating the conflict between the Obama administration and officials in the border state. Justice Department officials in Washington have issued a rare threat to sue...

The Obama administration, while deporting a record number of immigrants convicted of crimes, is sparing one group of illegal immigrants from expulsion: students who came to the United States without papers when they were children. In case after case where immigrant students were identified by...

El próximo jueves entrará en vigor en Arizona la ley SB1070 que criminaliza en ese estado la inmigración ilegal y permite la persecución de indocumentados bajo criterios arbitrarios como el color de piel. Nada se hizo desde México para evitarlo y, al parecer, nada se está haciendo tampoco para...

In a bid to remake the enforcement of federal immigration laws, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants and auditing hundreds of businesses that blithely hire undocumented workers. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency expects to deport about 400,000 people...

In the political marketplace, there’s now a run on Obama shares. The left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday, Democrats...