Republican leadership in the House of Representatives has plans to present legislation to a vote in March 2014, despite John Boehner's comments to the contrary.

The Speaker of the House said that his Republican majority will not conference any of their immigration reform legislation with the larger bill passed by the Senate in June. Chances of legislation which extends a path to citizenship for most of the nation’s 11.7 million undocumented immigrants look a lot slimmer.

On Thursday at the King Center in Atlanta, the vice president will continue his recent push on immigration reform during a visit to a naturalization ceremony. On Wednesday, he and President Obama will also meet with faith group leaders.

Denham's stated commitment to move on the issue comes just after the third-ranking Republican in the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, said there was too little time left on the Congressional calendar to act in 2013.

Another campaign from immigration reform advocates meant to urge House Republicans to act on the issue points to the contributions of immigrants to the nation's armed forces.

Hillary Clinton spoke at a brunch to benefit the Mexican-American Leadership Initiative at USC where she was presented with an award: in her speech she urged congress to pass immigration reform.

Arizona's border fence project may have stalled - permanently. The private donations expected to fund the 375-mile-long fence dried up after only a fraction of the necessary funds were received,

On Tuesday, the District of Columbia approved a bill to go into effect in May which would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a special kind of driver's license. A rash of states have passed such laws in recent times, most recently California.

The president says he's rallying "unlikely bedfellows" in his latest push for immigration reform. The White House said in Tuesday morning's meeting, he would be touting the economic benefits of an overhaul.

Valadao (R-Calif.) told a California newspaper that he would be "happy" to become the third Republican to co-sponsor a comprehensive immigration reform bill from House Democrats if it would help move the process along.

The 23-year-old activist, who was brought to the US illegally from Veracruz, Mexico at age 4, had requested asylum from authorities during a protest at the US-Mexico border.

President Barack Obama and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have recently said they could support the small-bill approach on immigration, as embraced by most House Republicans. But on Tuesday, Rep. Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) became the 2nd House Republican to sign onto a comprehensive bill previously sponsored by an array of House Democrats.

Diaz-Balart is working on a bill which would grant legal status to some undocumented immigrants living in the US, though it's not clear if that would include a path to citizenship. He recently praised the president's reversal of stance on how to best approach immigration reform legislation.

The Florida senator helped write the Senate overhaul which House Republicans have rejected. Now, Rubio is saying his fellow Republicans in the House should be accommodated in their insistence that the issue be undertaken one small bill at a time.

Goodlatte reiterated his opposition to a single, comprehensive bill on immigration, pointing to flaws earlier this month with the website for the Affordable Care Act as an example of problems which stem from the comprehensive approach.

Backlogs swelled in the nation's immigration courts for the seventh year in a row, growing by an additional 10,266 cases.

Politico reported on Wednesday that Issa, an influential Republican in the House of Representatives, was planning to release his legislation next week.

The president returns to his push for comprehensive immigration reform on Thursday in remarks made from the White House's East Wing. Watch it as it streams live.

The Speaker of the House has frustrated the hopes of immigrant advocates by refusing to bring the Senate immigration bill to the floor of the House for a vote. But Boehner said on Wednesday morning it was still possible that he could introduce some other bill on the issue in 2013.

Tech groups say they're not ready to give up on immigration reform in 2013 even as many Republican lawmakers say bad blood between them and President Obama has defeated any chance for compromise between them on the issue.

“I think immigration reform is harder to achieve today than it was three weeks ago because of what happened here,” Rubio said, adding, “The president has undermined this effort, absolutely, because of the way he has behaved over the last three weeks."

The two-week government shutdown may spell an end to significant immigration reform as it has now forced the government to come to another agreement in just 25 days. Given the embittered state of the GOP and the lack of time for reform to pass, immigration legislation passing the floor this year has become increasingly unlikely.

The appointment of the former general counsel with the Defense Department and longtime supporter of the president comes as a surprise to many.

An advocacy group for undocumented youth issued a sharply worded open letter to President Barack Obama on Wednesday demanding action to halt deportations of about 1,100 people per day and urging a "real legacy of leadership" on immigration.

The president says he’ll go back to pressuring House Republican leadership into considering the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill. He might be facing an uphill battle.

The New Jersey governor has in the past said he’d veto a bill granting in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities to undocumented immigrants. But in a speech at a Latino Leadership Alliance dinner over the weekend, he expressed support for the idea.

If the United States defaults on the $12 trillion it owes in interest payments and social security bills, it would likely send shockwaves rippling through world markets. But even if Congress avoids an impasse, the effects of the political struggle will likely have consequences on immigration reform legislation.

Fernanda Romero is a Mexico born actress that is building her career by following her instincts and defying all odds.

The lawmakers were part of a group of 200 demonstrators who marched to the main street in front of the Capitol and sat down or stood in the road, refusing to move for traffic.

The governor’s veto comes after he signed a flood of bills expanding rights for undocumented immigrants this weekend, saying he wanted California to lead the way on immigration reform even if Congress was dragging its feet.