Immigration News

==In Israel, era of mass immigration ends

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Melissa Schwab is no Zionist zealot. She's not an Orthodox Jew seeking to be nearer to God. She didn't flee anti-Semitism....

==Opponents sue to stop Texas city's immigration law

DALLAS (AP) -- Opponents of a Dallas suburb's latest effort to force out illegal immigrants filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop a city ban on apartment and home rentals to tenants who can't prove they are legally in the country....

==Immigration issues resurface on some state ballots

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- In a high school classroom, Xavier Chavez is trying to teach a group of restless teenagers about Manifest Destiny - the 19th century belief that the United States was divinely fated to stretch from sea to shining sea....

==ACLU sues to halt RI governor's immigration order

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A civil rights group filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block Gov. Don Carcieri from enforcing an executive order requiring private employers to electronically check the immigration status of new hires....