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Deportations of undocumented immigrants reach new U.S. record in 2012

The United States deported more than 400,000 illegal immigrants in 2012, the most of any year in the nation’s history, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports. The record number, released Friday, is also important for another reason: It is a stinging reminder to Latinos that President…  …

Santorum: ‘Almost everything’ undocumented immigrants do is illegal

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told supporters in Spencer, Iowa Tuesday that a young woman who was brought to the U.S. as an undocumented 6-year-old was “repeatedly breaking the law” by staying in the country. “She came when she was probably young and she didn’t consciously break the law,” the…