Deportation

During a speech on immigration at the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center in San Francisco on Monday morning, Obama told security not to remove hecklers who interrupted him during his speech and addressed them sharply.

On Wednesday, New York City rolled out the nation’s first publicly-funded legal defense project for detained immigrants facing deportation. Organizers say the pilot program, which saw its funding approved in June by the City Council, might inspire similar projects across the country aimed at a group which almost never wins their cases when they have to go at it alone.

The 30 are the second such group of immigrant activists to present themselves at the US-Mexico border in a protest of immigration policies which saw them either deported or denied re-entry to the country where they grew up.

Sandra Ávila Beltrán, an alleged drug dealer known as the "Queen of the Pacific," is being deported back to México today, after serving 70 months in prison.

The number of unaccompanied minors has shot up since 2008. Over 13,000 of them were Mexicans, according to a report by Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Data from the Pew Center suggests that much of the remaining number were Central Americans.

With the future of thousands of immigrants at stake, the Supreme Court on Thursday considered whether to extend a rule that requires lawyers to tell clients who are not citizens that they can be deported if they plead guilty to crimes.

Marlon Morraz, 19, an undocumented immigrant from Nicaragua, wasted no time to sign up for temporary legal status in the United States under the Obama administration's relaxed deportation rules that took effect on Wednesday.