Perry Endorses Work Visas For Illegal Immigrants
Governor Rick Perry proposed the government should extend work visas allowing illegal immigrants to move between the U.S. and their homes.
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Governor Rick Perry proposed the government should extend work visas allowing illegal immigrants to move between the U.S. and their homes.
The second unmanned aircraft to patrol the Texas-Mexico border has arrived at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.
The road to the White House passed through North Texas on Thursday. Tea Party members in Dallas welcomed Newt Gingrich to town.
Neither Rick Perry nor Mitt Romney can claim conservative purity on the issue of illegal immigration -- and now both must deal with it.
Texas tea party supporters is calling on Gov. Rick Perry to revive legislation that gives police broader powers to ask people about their citizenship.
Farmers Branch is asking a federal court to overturn a ruling that the city tried to impose unconstitutional restrictions on home rentals to illegal immigrants.
Rick Perry is calling his Republican rivals "heartless" and using ethnically charged language to defend moderate parts of his immigration record.
The Pentagon's announcement that 1,000 National Guard troops will remain deployed along the US-Mexico border is underwhelming to security experts.
Under a new state law, Texas parole officials can soon begin deporting some of the 11,000 foreign citizens who are incarcerated in state prisons.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the department will focus on deporting illegal immigrants who are criminals.
Gov. Rick Perry officially started his campaign for President on Saturday, and voters are already asking tough questions about his record.
With immigration slowing, babies born in the U.S. rather than newly arrived Mexican immigrants are now driving most of the fast growth in the Latino population.
Tucked inside the state school finance bill is a provision requiring Texans to prove their citizenship, or legal status, before receiving their first or renewing an old driver's license.
When the immigration enforcement bill died again this week without a vote in the Texas House, Democrats smirked while Governor Rick Perry and GOP lawmakers angrily blamed each other for its demise.
Texas Senate Republicans flexed their muscle again, passing a bill that gives police broader powers to ask people about their citizenship status.
Dallas and Houston law enforcement officials said Monday that they oppose legislation that would free up officers in so-called sanctuary cities to ask about the immigration status of anyone pulled over during a traffic stop, questioned as a witness or otherwise detained.
The Texas Senate is holding a public hearing on a bill related to police officers asking people that they detain if they are in the country legally.
Federal officials have a warning for immigrants considering too-good-to-true legal aid -- the wrong help can hurt.
President Barack Obama is pushing Congress to overhaul the immigration system, but lawmakers seems to have little appetite for the issue.
A Texas Senate panel derailed a plan Wednesday that would allow local police to question anyone they detain about their citizenship status.
On Tuesday Governor Rick Perry turned down an offier to meet with President Barack Obama at the El Paso airport and no meeting happened while President Obama was in Austin last night.
In a last-ditch effort to tweak one of their most despised bills of the session, House Democrats tried — and failed — to adopt several amendments today to the "sanctuary cities" bill initially passed by the House late Monday.
After an emotional debate, the Texas House passed a bill Monday night that would allow local police to help enforce federal immigration laws.
President Obama is making his first trip as president to the Mexico border, using the setting to sharpen his call for a remake of immigration laws.
Authorities are opening seven new inspection booths for commercial traffic heading north to the U.S. out of Mexico.
