A federal appeals court has ruled against President Barack Obama's plan to protect an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally from deportation.

A court hearing has been set for April 17 on whether a temporary hold on President Barack Obama's immigration executive action should be lifted, a federal appeals court announced Tuesday.

A coalition of states -- including Wisconsin -- suing to stop President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration alleges the government misled a judge about not implementing part of the plan before the judge temporarily halted it.

House Republicans are moving toward a vote authorizing legal action against President Barack Obama over his executive actions on immigration.

On a bright New Year's Day in 2010, a small group of immigrants including a young couple in love laced up donated sneakers for a 1,500-mile march from Miami to Washington.

Wisconsin has joined 16 other states in a joint lawsuit seeking to block President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration.

At oral arguments Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court scrutinized the language of federal immigration statutes to determine whether a visa applicant’s child who ages out of automatic eligibility while waiting in the queue for available visas must go to the back of the line.

When congressional lawmakers return from the summer recess Monday, they could decide to take up an issue that has stalled in Washington for decades: immigration reform.

President Barack Obama and members of Congress have turned their attention to immigration reform, unveiling their ideas on how to overhaul the federal immigration system for the first time in 27 years.

In 2009, when Sergio Garcia thought his future was assured, a question jumped off the page of the moral character questionnaire for his bar application: “Are you a U.S. Citizen, a lawful permanent resident, or what is your status?”

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down three of four challenged provisions of Arizona’s controversial immigration enforcement law – and essentially inviting future challenges to the remaining part of the statute – has lawyers prepared for a flurry of litigation in Arizona and other states with similar measures.

In two widely anticipated rulings, the Supreme Court ruled the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment bars juvenile homicide offenders from being sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

The Supreme Court is meeting Monday to issue opinions in some of the handful of cases that remain unresolved.

Emboldened by signals that the U.S. Supreme Court may uphold parts of Arizona's immigration law, legislators and activists across the country say they are gearing up to push for similar get-tough measures in their states.

The last oral argument of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term was an explosive one, as the justices considered whether SB 1070, the controversial Arizona immigration statute, is preempted by federal law.

An immigration statute limiting a legal permanent resident’s right of reentry does not apply retroactively to a felony conviction before the effective date of the law, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 6-3.

10-2760 Bueso-Avila v. Holder

In a debate that involved dueling federal statutes and immigration case law, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court questioned whether a permanent resident may seek discretionary relief from removal based on a conviction where he did not depart and reenter the United States.

10-3751 Escobar v. Holder

The Department of Justice has settled a lawsuit against Farmland Foods, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods Inc., that alleged the pork producer discriminated against non-U.S. citizens and foreign-born U.S. citizens in establishing their authorization to work.

Immigration Jordan; honor killings

Immigration U visas; judicial review

Immigration China; asylum; forced abortions

Immigration Removal; Sudan

Immigration Removal; aggravated felonies

Immigration Suspension of deportation

Immigration Judicial review

Immigration Removal; withholding

Immigration Removal; equal protection

Immigration Continuous presence