The Homeland Security Department estimates the number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. fell about 7 percent to 10.8 million in January 2009. The drop is the second in two years. The population rose to 11.8 million in January 2007. It ...

Federal agents have raided more than a dozen bus companies in Houston they say dispersed illegal immigrants across the U.S. in wide-reaching smuggling networks. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say 14 businesses were targeted this week, including one that used armed guards and pit ...

Before she started receiving dialysis treatments at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, Bineet Kaur was so sick from kidney failure she could hardly walk. The memories of that pain came flooding back in September, when she received a letter saying the clinic was closing. The treatment ...

A northern Idaho senator is trying a fourth year to toughen punishments for businesses that employ illegal workers, against opposition from the dairy and construction industries that say this should be a federal issue. At the heart of the disagreement: E-Verify, the currently voluntary federal ...