PRO-IMMIGRATION SUPPORTERS PROTEST ELVIRA ARELLANO ARREST AND DEPORTATION IN LOS ANGELES
A young girl joins a small group of immigration supporters in front of the Federal Building in Los Angeles, on August 20, 2007, protesting the deportation of immigrant activist Elvira Arellano back to Mexico. At the news conference immigration activists said they will continue Arellano's original plan to go to Washington, D.C., and take part in a prayer meeting and rally for immigration reform at the Capitol on September 12. They also called for a national boycott on that date. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen)
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U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday told a crowd of 400 at a Texas high school not to listen to all the "doom and gloom" coming out of Washington.
A U.S. Senate committee Thursday began the arduous process of marking up proposed legislation overhauling the nation's immigration laws.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says he hopes Congress will pass immigration reform legislation by the end of the summer.
Americans are down on Congress as a whole while saying they're OK with their individual congressional member, a Gallup poll released Thursday indicated.
President Obama meets with electric utility leaders, and Asian American and Pacific Islanders national leaders Wednesday, the White House said.
President Obama practiced golf cart, not shuttle, diplomacy as he and three U.S. senators played a bipartisan round of golf at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
President Obama plans some day trips to remind Americans the economy still tops his agenda alongside immigration reform and other issues, the White House said.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday honored Mexican-Americans and called for immigration reform in a statement on Cinco de Mayo.
Former South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint said implementing the bipartisan immigration reform proposal before Congress would cost trillions of dollars.
A leading Democrat in the U.S. Senate said the bones of an immigration reform bill will remain in place despite some anticipated tweaks.
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