A four-day sweep in and around Los Angeles led to the arrest of 244 immigrants in the U.S. illegally, all Level 1 and Level 2 criminal offenders.

As Democrats and the Obama administration say they'll give House Republicans until August to move on immigration reform legislation, some immigrant advocacy groups are expressing anger and impatience, saying that more waiting is intolerable for those with skin in the game.

“When the president says that he’s going to set a time limit and then consider taking actions himself … that makes doing immigration reform harder, not easier,” said Goodlatte.

A survey of Dreamers indicates that their support for either party depends heavily on action on immigration-related issues.

About 82 percent of the 673,417 people who submitted applications since June 2012 have received temporary relief from deportation and work authorization.

Spouses of high-skilled workers will be able to work while their SOs wait for green-card requests to come through.

May 1, when many countries celebrate Labor Day, will see anti-deportation protests staged in front of the White House.

Initial changes may include granting lengthier background checks of detainees and shortening the time period undocumented immigrants are considered recent entries.

After a case is referred to immigration courts, ICE officers rarely exercise discretion on whether or not to prosecute undocumented immigrants.

A new group of immigrant activists joined fasters who protested in front of the White House for an end to deportations.

Some 22 Republican senators addressed a letter to President Barack Obama this week, which slammed the use of proprietorial discretion in immigration enforcement and expressed "grave concern" with proposed changes.

Muñoz told Fusion's Leon Krauze that Obama did not have the authority to extend deportation relief to those who would get legal status under a Senate bill which died last summer in the House.

The percentage of Mexicans among deportees declined 10 percent from fiscal year 2012 to 2013, but they still make up about two-thirds of those removed by the US government.

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus returned from a meeting with DHS head Jeh Johnson seeming pleased with what they'd been told.

Most people who get deported are not who the Obama administration claims they are.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has released a series of recommendations for the Obama administration which includes extending protection from deportation to a much greater group of undocumented immigrants.

Sen. Paul said on Tuesday that the GOP wouldn't be able to expand its appeal to Latino voters until its members "get beyond" deportations.

Mario Vargas Lopez, who spent five months in a Louisiana detention center, has been released after posting bond. His 10-year-old daughter had jumped a barrier at the Vatican to ask Pope Francis to help put a stop to deportations.

Obama considering policy changes on immigration-enforcement which would cut back on deportations of noncitizens who were only guilty of immigration violations.

Obama has ordered Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson to review how the agency can "conduct enforcement more humanely."

Hundreds of detainees in a Tacoma, Wa. detention center are striking to protest deportations and what they describe as exploitation within the center, which is owned by the prison operator GEO Group.

Obama called himself the "champion-in-chief" of comprehensive immigration reform and said Latinos should support him despite recent accusations by immigrant- and Latino-advocate groups that he has not done all he could to halt deportations.

One of the last Latino groups to back the Obama administration despite its record on deportations is inaugurating a tougher approach.

Six family members of detainees at the Eloy Detention Center -- one of whom has been there for three years -- have staged a hunger strike to call for their release.

56 percent of the 330,000 Mexicans repatriated by US authorities in 2013 told Mexico’s migration institute that they wanted to stay in Mexico.

The president told House Democrats at their party retreat on Thursday that some Republicans in the House did want to see immigration reform passed, but that they were reluctant to face potential "political blowback" on the issue.

Half of all ICE’s filings to have an individual deported were awarded by immigration judges so far in fiscal year 2014, the lowest ever rate.

The first month of 2014 saw a jump in deportations of Guatemalans compared to the first month of 2013, according to Guatemalan authorities.

Details on an ICE pilot program targeting “fugitive aliens” pit Obama administration priorities against civil-rights and immigrant-advocate groups who say it amounts to racial profiling.

An immigrant advocacy group has filed a petition to temporarily halt deportations. They cite a law on federal agency procedure in saying DHS must explain its decision to deny or grant the request.