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Fifteen large-scale black-and-white portraits dot the grounds outside Chicago’s Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. The young people depicted are all undocumented immigrants living in Chicago.

Lawmakers in other parts of the country, most recently the District of Columbia, have approved bills modeled after the policy. Some Republicans want the trend stopped.

A DuPage County man claims ICE’s Secure Communities violates the U.S. Privacy Act.

Key provisions of Arizona's crackdown on immigrants were struck down, but a much-debated portion on checking suspects' status could go forward, the justices said.

The Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's controversial immigration law may come as early as Monday; both sides of the political debtae agree Arizona 1070 is the most hardline stance on immigration in recent memory. Journalist Maria Hinojosa, who has been covering immigration issues for 25 years, joins us Friday to weigh in. 

President Obama’s DREAM Act executive order was a survival-mode move to counteract Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s own ambitious move. Rubio has been talking up his own version of the DREAM Act, which, unlike to the original, would not provide a path to permanent residency or citizenship.  

After months of rancor among its leaders and residents, a Chicago suburb has rejected a plan by the country’s largest private prison company to build and operate an immigrant detention center.