May 24 - By Doug Gross, AP Writer
Former president Carter, a Democrat and frequent critic of President Bush, sees eye-to-eye with him on immigration.
May 24 - By The Associated Press, AP Writer
Highlights of separate immigration and border security bills passed by the Senate and the House.
May 24 - By Liz Sidoti, AP Writer
Call it an early, conservative rehearsal for the 2008 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, four senators supporting a chance at citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants, one opposed.
May 24 - By Sara Kugler, AP Writer
Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg thrust himself into the national immigration debate Wednesday, advocating a plan that would establish a DNA or fingerprint database to track and verify all legal U.S. workers.
May 24 - By Lolita C. Baldor, AP Writer
The first wave of about 800 National Guard soldiers will head to the U.S-Mexico border as early as next week, including planners and leadership personnel who will stay longer than the planned 21-day missions, the National Guard chief told lawmakers Wednesday.
May 24 - By Suzanne Gamboa, AP Writer
Senate supporters of landmark immigration legislation looked ahead Wednesday to passage of a measure along lines set by President Bush, but they also signaled a willingness to seek common ground with conservatives whose House version would be far tougher on millions of men and women in the country illegally.
May 23 - By Suzanne Gamboa, AP Writer
Employers would face fines as high as $20,000 for hiring undocumented workers and have to screen all new hires as part of legislation that would grant legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
May 23 - By Associated Press
A clergyman and five others are accused of taking more than $200,000 from illegal immigrants in exchange for helping them gain amnesty by lying about when they entered the United States.
May 23 - By Gillian Flaccus, AP Writer
Luis Orozco was among the first in line nearly 20 years ago when federal lawmakers offered U.S. citizenship to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants. Today, he has a wife, two daughters and a car — but he still is not an American citizen.
May 23 - By Alicia A. Caldwell, AP Writer
President's Bush announcement that he wants to beef up enforcement of immigration laws was met with a weary sigh by the new police chief of this little border village.
May 23 - By Suzanne Gamboa, AP Writer
The Senate rejected a California Democrat's plan to allow the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country to remain, work and eventually become Americans, preserving a fragile bipartisan coalition needed to pass the bill.
May 22 - By Elliot Spagat, AP Writer
A U.S. attorney disputed a document that stated Border Patrol agents were demoralized by a lack of prosecutions of suspected immigrant smugglers, saying Monday the language reflected an individual's opinion and was not approved for release by Border Patrol management.
May 22 - By David Espo, AP Special Correspondent
The Senate, eager to stanch the flow of illegal immigrants, signaled overwhelming support Monday for President Bush's plan to dispatch National Guard troops to states along the Mexican border.
May 22 - By Giovanna Dell'Orto, AP Writer
Laila Montezuma was 16 when she sneaked across the Rio Grande from Mexico with her mother, only to be abandoned by the smuggler paid to get them into the United States. They had to hire another "coyote" to reach Houston.
May 21 - By Hope Yen, AP Writer
Despite the brouhaha the Senate has caused with its immigration bill, making English the "national language" of the United States will not change current laws, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday.
May 20 - By Lynn Brezosky, AP Writer
In the Rio Grande Valley, an area known for both blended cultures and intense U.S. patriotism, National Guard soldiers recently back from Afghanistan are taking stock of President Bush's plan to use their ranks to patrol the Mexican border.
May 20 - By David Espo, AP Special Correspondent
For all the controversy, immigration legislation is moving steadily through the Senate, shielded by a bipartisan coalition durable enough to defeat crippling amendments, shake off political warning shots and even recover from an occasional stumble.
May 19 - By Lara Jakes Jordan, AP Writer
It will take nearly 35,000 more jail beds to end a much-criticized "catch and release" program for dangerous illegal immigrants in the United States, but the Bush administration has not budgeted enough to do that, the Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog said Friday.
May 19 - By Suzanne Gamboa, AP Writer
The White House took both sides in a dispute over English being the national language Friday as a broad immigration bill moved toward a final Senate vote next week with one conservative predicting it will never become law.
May 19 - By Aaron C. Davis, AP Writer
President Bush's planned deployment of National Guard troops to the Mexican border would last at least two years with no clear end date, according to a Pentagon memo obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
May 19 - By Juan A. Lozano, AP Writer
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended President Bush's immigration proposal Friday, rejecting claims that giving some illegal immigrants a shot at citizenship amounts to amnesty.
May 19 - By Richard N. Ostling, AP Religion Writer
While the Roman Catholic Church, mainline Protestants, Jews and Muslims have backed the emerging immigrants' rights movement, the situation has proved more complex for some conservative Protestants.
May 19 - By Suzanne Gamboa, AP Writer
A prominent congressional opponent of sweeping immigration legislation conceded Friday the measure is likely to pass next week, adding "The Senate should be ashamed of itself."
May 19 - By Juan A. Lozano, AP Writer
Martin Saucedo, an illegal immigrant from Michoacan, Mexico, would like to participate in a guest worker program like one Congress is considering as a part of sweeping immigration reform.
May 18 - By David Espo, AP Special Correspondent
The Senate voted Thursday to make English the national language of the United States. Sort of.
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