Over the past 25 years, Edward Juarez-Pagliocco built a reputation as a national expert on immigrant affairs. His work earned him keys to cities in Florida and New Jersey, he had a radio show on WPAT-FM (93.1) in New York, and he wrote an immigration column for El Diario La Prensa, the Spanish-language daily.

When activists from around the country rally for immigrants' rights Saturday, it's no coincidence that they'll converge here.

Bishops John Wester of Salt Lake, Utah, and Howard Hubbard of Albany, New York, announced a campaign by the bishops to urge Congress to pass comprehensive compassionate immigration reform soon (see statement of Bishop Wester).

For several years now the Catholic bishops of the United States have called for passage of comprehensive immigration reform. It is anticipated that immigration reform will be considered in 2010.

Lawmakers and immigration groups are calling on the Obama administration to grant Haitians in the USA, including those here illegally, a special temporary legal status that would protect them from deportation and allow them to take jobs.

Dozens of immigrant advocacy groups and several members of Congress are renewing a long-standing call for the Obama administration to grant temporary legal status and work permits to as many as 125,000 Haitians living in the United States illegally.

Dozens of immigrant advocacy groups and several members of Congress are renewing a long-standing call for the Obama administration to grant temporary legal status and work permits to as many as 125,000 Haitians living in the United States illegally.

Capitol Hill will probably not take up immigration reform this year.

The impassioned chant rising from a crowd of nearly 200 last night on the steps of Borough Hall spoke to the frustrations of hardworking Americans -- people who are separated from their families, whose children are not entitled to work or get financial aid for college, or who live in limbo, worried that at any moment, the government could order them back to a country they left decades ago.

Representatives from Maine organizations in favor of immigration reform marched Thursday to the district offices of U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, requesting meetings during the coming Presidents Day break in order to discuss federal immigration policy.