Immigration News

BOSTON (AP) -- The former owners of a New Bedford leather goods factory raided last year by immigration agents will pay $850,000 to workers - including illegal immigrants - to settle a lawsuit claiming the company violated wage laws, attorneys said Tuesday....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Federal immigration officials let thousands of inmates in the nation's third-most populous county walk out of jail despite the suspects admitting they were in the U.S. illegally, a newspaper investigation found....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- More than 500,000 immigrants call the Philadelphia metropolitan area home, with more than one-fifth of them arriving since 2000, according to a new report....