Mexican President Felipe Calderon Visits Bay Area
Mexican President Felipe Calderon was in the San Francisco Bay area where he spoke at a San Jose job training center about immigration issues and other topics.
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon was in the San Francisco Bay area where he spoke at a San Jose job training center about immigration issues and other topics.
Democrats in California's Assembly joined other states Thursday in questioning the federal system that uses fingerprints to check the immigration status of people picked up by police.
San Francisco prosecutors and Mexican authorities announced an agreement Monday they hope will improve workplace safety for immigrants in hazardous professions.
San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey said Friday he will soon begin releasing undocumented immigrants held in county jail for low-level offenses.
College students who entered the country illegally appear closer than ever to receiving financial aid in California.
Susan Xiao-Ping Su, 41, president of Tri-Valley University, is accused of obtaining several million dollars in purported tuition fees by helping foreigners obtain fraudulent student visas.
Day laborers and domestic workers rallied in San Francisco Monday and will do so Tuesday at the state capitol in opposition to the federal government's Secure Communities program.
A San Jose man is spending the first days of a three-year prison sentence for lying on a naturalization form.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Monday blocked four key provisions of Arizona's controversial immigration law.
The former housekeeper of billionaire California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman was honored at an immigrant rights gala in Los Angeles.
Republican state Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of San Bernardino County said his bill would go after so-called "sanctuary cities" and those who hire illegal immigrants.
San Jose police officers need to focus on building relationships with the communities they patrol rather than indiscriminately enforcing federal immigration laws, Police Chief Chris Moore said Thursday.
San Jose congressman Mike Honda is calling on the United States to issue an official apology for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Immigrants rights activists joined a growing call for Mexico's government to end repression of its labor unions.
The government of India is urging the United States to show leniency toward Indian students who were enrolled at a "sham university" in the East Bay that U.S. authorities say was a front for illegal immigration.
Federal officials are accusing a Pleasanton university of serving as a front for an illegal immigration operation that accepted millions of dollars to obtain student visas for foreign nationals.
San Francisco and Santa Clara County Supervisors have already voted to opt out of Secure Communities, under which states forward the fingerprints of the arrested to federal immigration authorities, to make sure they're not illegal immigrants.
Oakland is moving forward with plans for a municipal identification card that is being touted as the first in the nation that would double as a full-fledged debit card.
The city of San Francisco is accusing a former lawyer of providing shoddy representation to clients with immigration problems even after giving up his license to practice law.
A new effort is underway at UC Berkeley to further study the sometimes complicated subject of immigration.
Bracing for the worst, supporters of a 20-year-old San Francisco nursing student facing deportation were preparing to stage a news conference Friday to urge Sen. Barbara Boxer to intervene by sponsoring an emergency bill.
Arizona's controversial new immigration law is being questioned by a federal appeals court.
There is some concern that laws targeting illegal immigration passed recently in Arizona may keep legal immigrants from voting here in California.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman on Thursday accused her Democratic opponent of lying to voters about her stance on immigration.
