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Massive police response breaks up protest blockade at ICE headquarters in...

CENTENNIAL — Dozens of law enforcement officers, many dressed in full tactical gear, have arrived to break up a protest at ICE's Colorado headquarters...

Protestors blocking entrances at Colorado ICE headquarters will stay ‘until they...

Protestors who support abolishing the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency are blockading entrances to an ICE field office south of Denver in a...

Littwin: Trump’s enablers in Congress cover themselves in, well, it’s not...

Coincidentally — or, I’d like to think, providentially — I came to understand something critically important about racism in America on Martin Luther King...

Littwin: The great American roundup

So now it's official. We can make America great for Americans again. The new rules for ridding our shores of undocumented immigrants are in...

Swing-state Latinos rally to Obama after immigration announcement

Latino voters have responded with enthusiasm to President Obama's decision Friday to limit deportation proceedings against and extend green card eligibility to roughly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants. But the head of a conservative Latino group in Colorado cautioned that the administration's track record on immigration demands at best only a cautious optimism.

Unauthorized immigration to US is trending down according to Homeland Security

Pic via Immigration and Customs Enforcement The number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States has fallen slightly since 2010, according to a report released by the Department of Homeland Security. The department study indicates that “in summary, an estimated 11.5 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States in January 2011 compared to a revised 2010 estimate of 11.6 million.”

Task force to Homeland Security: Stop Secure Communities

Former members of a task force on Secure Communities sent a letter this week to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano calling on her to suspend the immigration enforcement program.

New study: Border fences blocking black bear migration between Arizona, Mexico

There is a new political animal in America's age-old immigration debate: the black bear.

Homeland Security severs ties with Arpaio

The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it is immediately terminating its immigration-enforcement agreements with the office of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz.

Homeland Security to prioritize deportations

The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it will begin reviewing about 300,000 deportation proceedings to implement prosecutorial discretion measures laid out in a June 2011 memo issued by John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (aka ICE).