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Newt Gingrich criticizes Romney for "self-deportation" plan

Immigration continues to be a major focus in the 2012 presidential campaign, with the two leading Republican contenders exchanging sharp words on the subject during their campaign appearances in Florida this week.

Romney on immigration: "Self-deportation" and military "DREAM Act"

n the latest Republican presidential debate in Florida, Mitt Romney described his plan for reducing the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.: "self-deportation." The former Massachusetts governor was responding to a question about his immigration position by a reporter who said he was "confused" about his stance on deportation.

Kansas slashes food aid for U.S. citizen children of illegal immigrants

The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services made a policy change on October 1, 2011 that eliminated food stamps for hundreds of low-income U.S. children whose parents are illegal immigrants. For many more households, benefits were reduced.

Executive order to speed up visa processing for visitors

On January 29, President Obama announced that the Departments of State and Homeland Security will be working together to improve and speed up the visa process for certain categories of travelers.

In deportation policy test, 1 in 6 offered reprieve

A fast-paced pilot of a new deportation review program has just been completed in Denver, where officials decided to shelve cases against 1,300 undocumented aliens while continuing removal proceedings for the remaining 6600. The pilot will soon be extended to all of about 300,000 deportation cases before the immigration courts nationwide.

Americans stumble on the math of immigration

Americans vastly overestimate the percentage of people living in the U.S. who are foreign-born, by more than a factor of two, and the percentage who are in the country illegally, by a factor of six or seven.

Offering a path to legalization for illegal immigrants could mean a local tax windfall

A new report by the Greater Houston Partnership (GHP) has estimated that legalizing undocumented workers in the Houston Metropolitan area would generate about $1.4 billion annually in tax revenue.

Wrinkle in immigration law may help those waved through border posts

In a recent immigration case, Davis, California waiter Rogelio Servin entered deportation proceedings in San Francisco unexpectedly came home with a Green Card. Servin was a child when he came to the U.S. from Mexico. Like a not inconsequential number of Mexican migrants, he entered in a car that was accidentally waved through a Customs and Immigration Enforcement checkpost at the border.