The ACLU had filed a lawsuit in 2011 over the release of some 22,000 individual case files of immigrant detainees. The government says they can't provide them.

The number is down from 409,000 in 2012. Over 1.9 million people have been deported since the president entered office in 2009.

In a letter on Thursday, 29 House Democrats added their voices to a growing chorus -- led by immigrant advocates -- in urging the president to expand a reprieve from deportation to a greater part of the nation's estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants.

During an interview last week, a White House spokesman said that President Barack Obama would not take executive action to stop deportations but would not comment on the future use of it by the president to address immigration reform.

"We received, in this past year alone...370,000 Mexicans," wrote the head of Mexico's National Migration Institute in a statement to Mexico's Congress, adding that the agency expects a rise in the number of deportees arriving in Mexico from the United States in 2014.

The Dominican Supreme Court’s September ruling which stripped some 200,000 Dominicans of their citizenship is having unintended consequences.

Valeria Fernández and Dan DeVivo's new documentary, "Two Americans", takes a closer look at the lives of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Katherine Figueroa, who was nine years old when her parents were arrested in one of the Arizona sheriff's immigration raids.

After Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a previous version, the bill's sponsors revamped it to meet more of his criteria. The state Senate passed that new version earlier this month. Now Brown has until October 13 to decide if he'll sign it.

In an interview with Telemundo on Tuesday, the president ruled out the idea that his suspension of deportations for young undocumented immigrants could be extended to a broader portion of the nation’s estimated 11 million people without legal status.

An article from The Atlantic published on Wednesday afternoon joined a growing chorus of voices who say that with chances of a comprehensive immigration bill being passed looking slim, the president might issue an executive order putting a halt to deportations of undocumented immigrants.

The memo issued on Friday evening directs Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel to consider the toll that overly punitive treatment of detained undocumented immigrants could have on their family, while stopping short of offering relief from deportation.

Only 49 percent of those eligible applied for a two-year deferral of deportation procedures and workplace authorization, according to a new study by the Migration Policy Institute. Why is that number so low?

In a protest organized by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, 8 young undocumented activists trying to re-enter the US from Mexico are asking for "humanitarian parole".

The Republican representative from Iowa will make a rare appearance on Univision’s “Al Punto Con Jorge Ramos” this Sunday. Advance transcripts indicate Ramos will confront King on his stance regarding the legal status of the nation’s estimated 11 million undocumented as well as his comments comparing immigrants to dogs.

The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was perhaps the most controversial since the agency was established after 9/11.

Immigrant advocacy groups continue to demand that Obama put a stop to deportations. On Friday, one such group protested in Santa Monica, California, calling the president the "deporter in chief".

In Los Angeles, which expected one of the biggest turnouts, protestors demanded an end to deportations. Record numbers of undocumented immigrants have been deported under the Obama administration. Elsewhere, protestors rallied in support of immigration reform.