Judge Sonia Sotomayor is the subject of much scrutiny lately due to her leading role examining the Arizona Immigration Law, titled S.B. 1070. These photos outline her history, from her unique childhood experiences through her meteoric rise to the highest court in the United States justice system.
Fundamentally, the case pivots on the relationship between states and the federal government when it comes to enforcing immigration law.
With a potentially landmark Supreme Court decision on Arizona's tough new immigration law looming, Senate Democrats called a hearing to denounce the law as unconstitutional and discriminatory.
Mexican immigration to the U.S., considered the largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the states, has dropped sharply and may have reversed due to the weak U.S. jobs market, stricter regulation on border crossing and rising deportations.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is hoping a federal judge will block the Labor Department's proposed changes in the way foreign unskilled guest workers are recruited under the H-2B visa program. Those changes are set to go into effect April 27.
The Obama campaign launched an appeal to Latino voters on Wednesday, seeking to bolster its advantage with a bloc of voters that could play a pivotal role in several swing states.
The Republican Party's diminished standing among Latino voters could be a fatal weakness come November, likely presidential candidate Mitt Romney said at a closed-door fundraiser on Sunday.
Alabama's tough new immigration law has faced a torrent of criticism, and Alabama lawmakers are debating new legislation that supporters say will address those concerns.
Mitt Romney got an influential endorsement of his immigration views on Tuesday, winning plaudits from a former Arizona lawmaker who sponsored the state's tough 2010 immigration law.
As he gathers with other movers and shakers at the White House on Thursday afternoon to witness President Barack Obama's signing of the Jobs Act, AOL Inc co-founder Steve Case is already thinking ahead to the next cause he can help champion behind the scenes: immigration reform.
A six-day operation led federal agents to arrest more than 3,100 immigrants who had criminal records or had re-entered the United States illegally, the government announced on Monday.
House Republicans are decrying revised rules for U.S. detention centers that house undocumented immigrants as too lenient. Democrats say conditions for detainees are still too harsh.
Senate Republicans are working on an alternative version of the DREAM Act, a Democrat-supported bill that has become a lightning rod in the immigration debate.
South Carolina's new immigration law exempts domestic and farm workers from otherwise mandatory background checks, a provision that opponents say undercuts the law's stated purpose.
President Barack Obama would vastly outperform his Republican opponent among Latino voters -- a rapidly-growing voting bloc that could prove decisive in several swing states in 2012, according to a new Fox News Latino poll.
In a sign of progress towards reforming America's immigrant detention system, officials have launched an innovative new facility in Texas.
Le Pen is expected to make an official announcement of her candidacy in the Pas de Calais in northern France, a National Front stronghold.
Nicolas Sarkozy said during a rally on Sunday that France should pull out of the Schengen zone in an effort to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, recasting himself as France's savior from low-cost competition and high immigration, threatened to disregard European limitations on protectionism as he sought to give his re-election campaign a second wind Sunday.
A federal appeals court has blocked parts of an Alabama immigration law that restrict business transactions with undocumented immigrants, further diluting a law that was considered the toughest in the country.
In a televised interview Tuesday night, the French president up for re-election Nicolas Sarkozy, claimed there were too many immigrants in France. He suggested a mass scaledown of foreign entries to jump-start the French integration system.
Annie George, the owner of a lavish 34-room mansion in upstate Rexford, N.Y., stands accused of keeping an Indian woman, V.M., in forced labor as a domestic worker in her home. V.M.'s circumstances, and the unanswered questions surrounding her time in the U.S., combine human trafficking and modern-day slavery laws with a tangled web of immigration laws, compounding the suffering that result from the modern-day struggles that plague domestic workers, regardless of citizenship, as they ...
