Immigration minister Damian Green announces intention to 'minimise' detention of children rather than end practiceThe government was yesterday accused of abandoning its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres in a climbdown th

A medical charity says it has documented for the first time the effects of immigration detention on children facing removal from the UK.

The Washington Legal Foundation asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco on Wednesday to reject a challenge by the Obama administration to Arizona's new immigration law, calling it a "well-designed effort" to p

Immigration authorities have rescued more than three dozen immigrants who were locked inside a sweltering boarded-up bedroom in a Southern California house.

Immigration minister Damian Green announces intention to 'minimise' detention of children rather than end practiceThe government was yesterday accused of abandoning its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres in a climbdown th

The Refugee Children's Consortium is a group of 30 NGOs working to ensure the rights and needs of refugee children are promoted and respected in accordance with domestic and international standards. We have long campaigned for an end to the detention

Greece struggles to deal with a European problemGUARDING their nation’s frontiers has traditionally been an honourable task for Greeks. These days they are almost begging for foreign assistance. Greece’s borders have become the ga

The Government spent more than £100 million on flights deporting failed asylum seekers, foreign nationals and immigration offenders in the last five years, figures showed.

Civil-rights lawyers sued the federal government yesterday to stop authorities from snooping in the laptops, cellphones and cameras of international travelers without probable cause. The lawsuit was filed in US District Court in Brooklyn against th

A San Diego restaurant owner has been thrust into one of the nation’s most contentious debates, sending a current of fear through the restaurant industry.

Los Angeles prosecutors have charged 33 immigration activists with a variety of misdemeanor crimes related to three protests beginning in May that blocked city streets.

A top government adviser says ministers may need to stop workers bringing families in order to meet an immigration cap.

Both Republican Nikki Haley and Democrat Vincent Sheheen had their gubernatorial campaigns running full steam ahead on Tuesday.

The Catholic church is one of the few mainstream institutions standing up for immigrantsOne of the most depressing trends in British and American politics is that opponents of immigration are currently winning the debate. In Britain the government is

The scam, thought to be the biggest of its kind in Britain, involved East European women being paid up to £3,000 a time to help the men, mostly Nigerians, by-pass UK immigration laws and settle in Britain.

Various polls report that George W. Bush in some states is now better liked than President Obama. Even some liberal pundits call for Bush to weigh in on the Ground Zero mosque or the Arizona anti-immigration legislation. Suddenly, Bush is missed.

On CTV's W5, Victor Malarek tells the story of Canadians victimized by spouses from foreign countries who marry for immigration, not love.

France’s immigration minister has changed the date of his wedding after Facebook users pledged to disrupt the ceremony, as the government faces criticism at home and abroad for security policies related to immigration.

As far as Eric Besson is concerned, Facebook, the social website, just became antisocial. The French Immigration minister, 52, has been forced to postpone his wedding to a 24-year-old Tunisian art student after more than 1,000 people

Despite the best efforts of mainstream politicians to demonise Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin he has struck a disturbing chord among his countrymen.

France’s immigration minister has changed the date of his wedding after Facebook users pledged to disrupt the ceremony, as the government faces criticism at home and abroad for security policies related to immigration.

European ministers on Monday discussed ways to crack down on illegal immigration, block false asylum demands and harmonize EU immigration policy so that one country's solution doesn't become another country's problem.

Parliament needs to consider minimum jail sentences for people-smugglers in order to send a message following the recent landing of 492 Tamils on Canada's West Coast, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said here Monday.

Home Secretary Theresa May is taking questions from MPs on alcohol licensing, police funding, private wheel clampers and immigration.

The Reverend Alex Brown was today sentenced to four years in jail after being found guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of breaches of immigration laws.

UK immigration rules that refuse visas to artists from non-EU countries are destroying our reputation for being open to international engagementThis afternoon Brett Bailey, founder of the renowned Third World Bunfight company and often described as S

Rev Alex Brown married hundreds of African men to eastern European women who were paid up to £3,000A Church of England vicar who conducted hundreds of sham marriages in an immigration fraud was jailed today for four years.The Rev Alex Brown married

The Immigration Minister, Damian Green has said the government is going to get tougher on the number of foreign students let into the UK.

The Rev Alex Brown married hundreds of African men to eastern European women who were paid up to £3,000A Church of England vicar who conducted hundreds of sham marriages in an immigration fraud was jailed today for four years.The Rev Alex Brown marr

'Machete,' which opened in theaters this weekend, is full of R-rated violence and goof-ball characters. But immigration – a hot political topic – is a subtheme to this end-of-summer flick.

A political storm is brewing in Germany, with, at its epicentre, a board member of the country's Central Bank. Thilo Sarrazin has caused an outcry…