Pelosi’s plan would drop the “border surge” amendment, which set aside $46 billion toward Border Patrol agents, fencing and surveillance technologies along the US-Mexico border. In its place, it would pick up a piece of House legislation which offers a simpler set of criteria for Homeland Security to establish along the border.

Maria and Mauro Bilbao told Univision they felt despair upon hearing the news that the House Gang of Seven on immigration had disbanded, but that they took it as proof that Republicans weren't serious about resolving the status of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

“It doesn’t appear that we’re going to move forward with the group of seven,” Democrat Rep. Luis Gutierrez told the Washington Post on Friday. Shortly afterward, two Republican members said they were leaving the group.

Days after President Barack Obama called a piecemeal approach on immigration “acceptable”, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said his committee was busy crafting four immigration bills in addition to the four it has already approved. But what might they propose for one of Obama’s priorities – a path to citizenship for the nation’s undocumented immigrants?

Republicans in the House have rejected the Senate’s comprehensive bill on immigration reform and pursued small, single-action bills instead. The president is saying he’s not concerned about methodology as long as his priorities make it in.

The 29-year-old CEO and founder of immigration reform lobby group FWD.us is in Washington this week to press for reform.

House Republicans’ new and ambitious campaign says they want to cut into Democrats’ advantage over them among Hispanics. But they may not be willing to give up the Tea Party vote to do 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.

The six-time Grammy winning Tigres and singer Olga Tañón will cap off four days of rallies and events beginning on October 5, which organizers are calling the “National Day for Dignity and Respect”.

About half of the American public thinks it’s “essential” for the president and lawmakers to pass an immigration overhaul this year.

The president appeared on “This Week” on Friday, telling George Stephanopoulos that the intransigence of House Republicans was responsible for lack of movement on the issue of immigration reform.

A host of states have passed resolutions asking the federal government to move on immigration policy. But in the meantime, they’re also passing reforms of their own.

Chances that House Republicans will consider a comprehensive bill by the end of the year look slim -- and slimmer now with the question of Syria on lawmakers' minds. But advocates for an overhaul of the nation's immigration system say that's not an excuse.

Ministers, business leaders and mayors on the US side of the Mexican border are becoming increasingly vocal in their opposition to putting more fences and agents along the border, and point instead to what they see as unexplored potential to improve international commerce across it.

Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho), a former member of the bipartisan House “Gang of Eight” on immigration reform, doesn’t see much of a future for a debate on an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system.

Sunday, September 8 marks the beginning of a coordinated effort from Catholic dioceses to push for immigration reform both in churches and with Congressmen.

The organizers of the “National Day for Dignity and Respect” say they “won” the August Congressional recess, and look to keep the pressure for immigration reform on lawmakers who’ve got the budget and Syria on their minds.

“Notarios”, or unsanctioned, non-lawyer immigration consultants who advertise themselves as public notaries capable of advising immigrants on the finer points of the immigration process, have for a long time been the object of awareness campaigns by immigrant-advocacy organizations.

Eleven people walked from Sacramento to the Bakersfield district of Rep. Kevin McCarty (R-Calif.), the third-ranking member of the House of Representatives, to express their support for an immigration reform overhaul with a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

This past August, Canada welcomed the first skilled-trades immigrants to be allowed entry under refitted criteria. The architects of the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill say they crafted their legislation with an eye on their northern neighbor’s own series of 2010 immigration bills overhauling the system.

The question of whether or not lawmakers should pass legislation with a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants is looking like it could down the chances of a bipartisan bill on immigration reform. One analyst thinks he’s got a compromise which would please all parties involved.

Aides say Republicans from the House “Gang of Seven” representatives who have crafted a comprehensive immigration reform bill are waiting for the “right bipartisan moment” to release it. But with much of the House GOP resolved to take a “piecemeal” approach on the issue, it’s unclear when that moment might come.

The Republican-majority House of Representatives might not get around to dealing with immigration until 2014. Advocates of reform fear that political tides might mean death for a bill.

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 offer of a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants – whether it’s just the young ones or adults too – has been looking more and more like the final line which House Republicans won’t cross in immigration reform legislation. On Tuesday, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) signaled that he might get on board with a bill that offered legal status without citizenship, while adding that he remained hopeful that House Republicans wouldn’t “absolutely reject” a path to citizenship.

The Homeland Security Secretary is leaving her post to become president of the University of California. In her farewell speech on Tuesday, she defended her record as secretary, warned of a probable cyber-attack on the US homeland, and scolded Congress for not passing the DREAM Act, which would have offered legal status to many young immigrants brought to the US illegally as children.

Facebook CEO will meet Senator Marco Rubio and possibly talk about immigration reform.

The American Action Network, the lobbying arm of the center-right think tank American Action Forum, has developed a new interactive web tool which gives district-by-district estimates of how many jobs would be created by the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill. It’s being sent out by the AAN to House Republicans in an effort to convince them of the benefits of the Senate’s plan.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he’ll do everything in his power to make sure the lower chamber of Congress never considers the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill – a piece of legislation which would extend a 13-year path to citizenship for about 8 million of the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants.

ICE said 30 who were deported have criminal history.