illegal immigration

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Homeland Security buses carrying migrant children and families were rerouted Tuesday to a facility in San Diego after American flag-waving protesters blocked the group from reaching a suburban processing center.

SAN JOSE LAS FLORES, Guatemala (AP) -- The mother of a Guatemalan boy whose body was found in the desert about a mile from Texas' southern border said Tuesday she begged him not set out on the dangerous journey from their modest wood and sheet-metal home high in the northern Cuchumatanes mountains.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the face of an unyielding Congress, President Barack Obama said Monday he will no longer wait for Republicans to act on immigration and will move on his own to make policy changes in what has been a top second-term priority of his presidency.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- President Barack Obama will seek more than $2 billion to respond to the flood of immigrants illegally entering the U.S. through the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas and ask for new powers to deal with returning immigrant children apprehended while traveling without their parents, a White House official said Saturday.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Children's faces pressed against glass. Hundreds of young boys and girls covered with aluminum foil-like blankets next to chain-link fences. The pungent odor that comes with keeping dirty travelers in close quarters.

Lawmakers are set to consider a bill Monday that would allow people who are in the country illegally to pay in-state tuition at New Jersey colleges and universities.

People are preying on undocumented immigrants attempting to achieve U.S. citizenship says one New Jersey lawmaker. Assemblywoman Annette Quijano is calling called on the so-called ‘Gang of Eight’ U.S. Senate leaders overseeing the federal immigration reform efforts to help crack down on those perpetrating the fraud.