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The Obama administration is still weighing proposals for the U.S. to accept thousands more Syrian refugees, United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power said on Wednesday, amid increased calls for the country to more proactively respond to the crisis. “The conversation is just picking up,” Power said at a lunch in Washington […]

About 295,000 ba­bies were born to un­au­thor­ized-im­mig­rant par­ents in 2013, mak­ing up 8 per­cent of the 3.9 mil­lion U.S. births that year, ac­cord­ing to a new, pre­lim­in­ary Pew Re­search Cen­ter es­tim­ate based on the latest avail­able fed­er­al gov­ern­ment data. This was a de­cline from a peak of 370,000 in 2007. […]

On the 2016 campaign trail, immigration has been a flash point unlike any other. But as Donald Trump pushes his scheme to build a wall across America’s southern border and Hillary Clinton promises to go further than President Obama in protecting migrants without documentation, a major immigration reform a half-century […]