IMMIGRATION

Fires were lit and fences destroyed at the remote Christmas Island facility after the death of an Iranian Kurdish asylum seeker.

Activists are saying more than two dozen detainees in a Texas detention center have faced punishment for staging hunger strikes in the past week, although the U.S. denies the claims.

The presidential candidate now says he'd end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, even if Congress does not pass immigration reform.

A recently leaked memo shows that the Obama administration has been looking into a legal go-around on immigration.

A Pew survey of U.S. religious groups found all Christian communities much more accepting of gays and lesbians, including 70 percent of Catholics.

The leader of a conservative Latino organization said Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s stance on undocumented immigrants needs a little work.

“We tried Obama, right? Time for a change."

“Policies like yours compel Texas to take action to protect Texans’ safety,” Gov. Greg Abbott wrote in a letter Monday.

In an election hinging on economic promises, a Euroskeptic, right-wing party could come to power in Poland Sunday.

"When we think of who is in our corner the most, and who will reform the legislative process to actually make immigration reform possible, Sanders is the obvious choice."

The European nation's leadership also denounced remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asserting Palestinian influence on the Holocaust.

After months of speculation, Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will not run for president.

“I am extremely, extremely tough on illegal immigration. ... If I were running things, I doubt those people would have been in the country," the presidential candidate says.

After Coulter called herself a “settler” and made a comment about immigrants, Raven-Symoné asked Coulter why she could not stop herself from saying offensive things.

Activists in New Orleans accused an appeals court of stalling on executive actions that would provide deportation relief to 5 million undocumented immigrants. And the government could be running out of time.

The lower rate has come from discretion by agents in the field, not policy changes, a Texas Border Patrol union representative said.

Texas and 25 other states filed a lawsuit in December to block the program.

U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement mandates that undocumented immigrants arrested on minor charges be detained for an additional two days post-release-date.

India's IT services companies face currency volatility and shifting demand patterns even as they prepare to grow faster.

Many Latin American countries celebrate the Day of the Race, or Día de la Raza, instead of Columbus Day as a way to celebrate Hispanic heritage and culture.

More than 40 percent of new arrivals in the past five years held at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 20 percent in 1970, Census Bureau data show.