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Immigrant detainees walk through the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention facility on February 28, 2013 in Florence, Arizona

Mentally deficient immigrant detainees get counsel

By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal officials are implementing a new policy that guarantees legal counsel to detained immigrants who can't represent themselves because … Read More

Controversy erupted in Maryland after a Puerto Rican teen refused to stand for the pledge of allegiance to bring awareness to the status of Puerto Rico. (Courtesy Enidris Rodriguez)

Teen refuses to stand for pledge of allegiance because “situation in Puerto Rico is undemocratic”

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Enidris Siurano Rodriguez,15, has not stood for the pledge of allegiance at school since she was in 7th grade to bring awareness to what she believes is an … Read More

Female undocumented immigrants rest, some in thermal blankets, at the U.S. Border Patrol detainee processing center on April 11, 2013 in McAllen, Texas. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Immigration debate brings issue of sexual abuse in detention facilities to the forefront

By Alexis Garrett Stodghill, The Grio

Many Americans visualize an immigrant coming into the U.S. illegally as a single Mexican man looking for work. In truth, many crossing our borders are more … Read More

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Small Georgia town turns pro-immigration reform to survive

By Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News

UVALDA, Ga. – In this town of 600 deep in southern Georgia, where onions and farming are a way of life, change does not come easy. Just ask Paul … Read More

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has asked the 9th Circuit to overturn a lower court's ruling striking part of Arizona's immigration law. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Court asked to bar piece of Arizona immigration law

By Jason Dearen, Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The federal government argued Tuesday that a section of Arizona's 2010 immigration law that prohibits "harboring" people living in the … Read More

This image shows a portion of press release distributed by the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles which illustrates new driver's licenses for applicants of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. (AP Photo/North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles)

NC scraps proposed pink-striped license for some

By Martha Waggoner and Gary D. Roberston, Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina said Thursday it is abandoning its plan to issue pink-striped driver's licenses to certain undocumented immigrants, beset … Read More

The private prison lobby supports Latino GOP groups who support increased arrests of undocumented immigrants.

Opinion: Private prison lobby pushes for tougher immigration enforcement to increase profits

By Stephen A. Nuño

The private prison lobby, which gains profit off the misery of minorities and the poor, has emerged as one of the main influencers of tougher enforcement of … Read More

United States Border Patrol keeps watch on U.S. side of the border just outside Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Human rights, religious and legal groups denounce Operation Streamline

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As the nation discusses immigration reform including border security, a number of civil, religious and human rights groups are denouncing a border prosecution … Read More

A new report says there were almost 1 million detention hold requests from 2008 to 2012.

Report: ICE detained 800 U.S. citizens in 4 years

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A new report using records obtained from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) found that between 2008 and 2012, ICE issued nearly 1 million … Read More

Javier Contreras, 17, addresses a news conference at the Michigan American Civil Liberties Union headquarters in Detroit, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. Contreras and two others are suing the Michigan secretary of state over her refusal to grant driver's licenses to applicants who can stay in the U.S. under a new federal immigration policy. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Dreamers sue Michigan Secretary of State over driver’s licenses

By Ed White, Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — A high school homecoming king and two other people who illegally entered the U.S. as children sued the Michigan secretary of state Wednesday … Read More