Mireya de los Santos has left her three girls just once. She went to register this spring with a probation officer after pleading guilty to driving - repeatedly - without a license. The probation officer alerted immigration officials, who started deportation proceedings against her. ...more

November 13, 2007

A Florida organization that assisted hundreds of illegal immigrants in fleeing to Canada must close and return thousands of dollars it collected from the immigrants, who thought they would be given legal status in that country, Florida's attorney general said Friday. ...more

November 10, 2007

A large increase in Border Patrol agents, additional fencing and expanded prosecution of illegal border-crossers contributed to a 20 percent drop in apprehension of undocumented migrants this year at the U.S.-Mexico frontier, immigration officials said Tuesday. ...more

November 7, 2007

Japan hopes to thwart potential terrorists from entering the country by fingerprinting and photographing all foreigners ages 16 or older on entry starting next month, an official said Friday. ...more

October 27, 2007

Patrick Henry and Francis Scott Key are out, but Susan B. Anthony and Nancy Pelosi are in. The White House was cut, but New York and Sept. 11 made the list. ...more

September 28, 2007