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Going back to Ronald Reagan, the Rev. Wilfredo De Jesús—the senior pastor of a 4,500-member Hispanic evangelical church in Chicago—has pulled the lever for Republicans in presidential elections. "I always voted on the issue of abortion and the sanctity of marriage," he says. This time, though, Sen. Barack Obama's message of faith and social justice, combined with strident GOP rhetoric on illegal ...
Q. Since the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at Howard Industries, many readers have asked Leader-Call reporters about the process of becoming a legal United States citizen or if illegal immigrants can become citizens.
This is in response to the long, very sympathetic article in the paper, Aug. 25, regarding the shattered lives of the forced returns of illegal Mexicans to Mexico. It leaves me feeling sad for California.
Democrats have avoided doing much appropriations work this year, but when Congress returns Monday there is one must-do item on the agenda: keeping the government from running out of money.
A federal judge ruled that a popular imam accused of terrorist connections could stay in the United States indefinitely.
Every day Sergio leaves for work at the House of Raeford Farms poultry plant on U.S. 378 in West Columbia, he wonders whether he will be arrested. The 40-year-old undocumented poultry worker from Mexico says there’s a growing concern among workers that immigration agents will target the West Columbia plant, called Columbia Farms, once they finish investigating the company’s Greenville plant. ...
From the fear-struck eyes of a Senegalese man waiting to scale a wire fence into Europe to the blank stare of a Russian housewife in Panama, a provocative exhibition setting off from Mexico explores the many faces of one of the world's pressing issues -- immigration.
The White House formally asked Congress Friday to back more offshore oil and gas drilling, requesting that lawmakers allow a current moratorium to lapse when they put together stopgap funding legislation for the early months of fiscal 2009.
Lack of money and manpower might hamper federal efforts to deal with illegal immigrants, but Anderson-area sheriff’s offices are finding that they can get things done with what they have on hand.
Bishop Thomas Tobin has not been timid during three years as the most prominent religious leader in Rhode Island, the nation's most heavily Catholic state.
HOUSTON -- Shipley Do-Nut Flour and Supply Company Inc. pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to harbor illegal immigrants and agreed to pay a $1.3 million forfeiture to the government, federal prosecutors said.
SAN BERNARDINO — The immigration screening operation at West Valley Detention Center has marked nearly as many criminal aliens for deportation during the first quarter of 2007 as the federal program did in all of 2005, according to officials.
An influential New Jersey Muslim leader accused by some federal officials of having terrorist ties but praised by others as being an important ally won his fight to gain permanent U.S. residency Thursday.
Nine million Hispanic voters scattered across battleground states pose a dilemma for Republican White House hopeful John McCain: how to win their support without angering his party's base.
Attorney General Jim Hood’s office is determining whether a new state law was violated by Howard Industries in Laurel, the site of the largest workplace immigration raid in U.S. history.
Category: Local News Topics: Education Following Wednesday’s arrests of Sun Valley Floral Farms workers by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a number of local schools have been unable or hesitant to link student absences to the sweep.
