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Democrats concede it’s unlikely to succeed. They're keeping up pressure on House Republicans on a tendentious issue for conservatives during an election year.

The first of three immigration-related bills -- which take aim at the president in part for his creation of DACA, defund an immigrant-advocate position within ICE, and require the Attorney General to report to Congress whenever a Justice Department official doesn't administer the law -- passed the House on Wednesday.

Rep. Paul Ryan says GOP leaders are still working on finding how much House Republican rank-and-file are willing to bend on immigration.

California newspaper La Opinión has slammed president Obama for not taking more decisive action to halt the deportation of illegal immigrants.

The House Judiciary Committee is considering a bill which would axe funding for a community-outreach officer in the 20,000-man ICE.

A new ad buy from a Mark Zuckerberg lobby group criticizes House Republicans for their inaction on immigration reform, marking a new, more sharper approach.

An estimated 1.15 million undocumented children live in the US. A new GOP amendment would deny a child-tax refund worth as much as $1,000 per child to their families.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), a key player in Senate negotiations on immigration, proposed that Republican distrust of the president's commitment to immigration laws could be circumvented by simply passing a reform now and letting it go into effect after Obama left office.

The vice president blustered on Thursday during a live Internet discussion on immigration that House Republican leaders would eventually cave on a bill they have repeatedly rejected.

Boehner's comments come less than a week after he said House Republicans would "absolutely not" conference their own small immigration bills with the comprehensive overhaul passed by the Senate in June.

The president reiterated that he would accept House Republicans' preferred approach to immigration reform "as long as all five pieces get done".

New Jersey Governor Chirs Christie has said that the key to his election victory was communicating with the Latino voters.

The president says he’ll go back to pressuring House Republican leadership into considering the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill. He might be facing an uphill battle.

Republicans in the House of Representatives have slowed the passage of a US-Mexico treaty over a provision which would make oil and gas companies disclose their payments to foreign countries.

After battles between Democrats and Republicans over funding the Affordable Care Act wind down, it’s possible that immigration reform could be next on the list for House Republicans.

Republicans in the House have rejected the Senate’s comprehensive bill on immigration reform and pursued small, single-action bills instead. The president is saying he’s not concerned about methodology as long as his priorities make it in.

House Republicans’ new and ambitious campaign says they want to cut into Democrats’ advantage over them among Hispanics. But they may not be willing to give up the Tea Party vote to do it.

The president appeared on “This Week” on Friday, telling George Stephanopoulos that the intransigence of House Republicans was responsible for lack of movement on the issue of immigration reform.

A host of states have passed resolutions asking the federal government to move on immigration policy. But in the meantime, they’re also passing reforms of their own.

The Republican-majority House of Representatives might not get around to dealing with immigration until 2014. Advocates of reform fear that political tides might mean death for a bill.

Brave New Films, an old GOP media adversary, has created a new video skewering three Republican representatives using clips from the 1986 comedy "Three Amigos".

The month-long August Congressional recess is expected to be a busy one for supporters of comprehensive immigration reform, who hope to use the month to bear down hard on House Republicans who have thus far dragged their feet on the issue.

Republican leaders question Obama's ability to deliver on immigration reform.

Gridlock reigns on the question of immigration reform. After a two-hour meeting on Wednesday to discuss the GOP’s approach on immigration, Republicans rejected the Senate bill and its path to citizenship for the undocumented and indicated it would continue to consider small bills reflecting the priorities of its most conservative members.

The House is slated to unveil its own bipartisan, comprehensive take on immigration reform after the July 4th Congressional recess. It will reportedly offer legal status to many of the nation's 11 million undocumented, but it remains to be seen whether it will offer a path to citizenship.

The Associated Press spoke to eight Republican members of the House of Representatives, who indicated that local anti-immigration reform pressures in their staunchly conservative districts influenced their stance on the current bill. Many of the GOP's most powerful members believe if their party blocks an immigration reform from passing, it would spell doom for its 2016 presidential chances.

"If we don’t pass immigration reform," Graham said, “if we don’t get it off the table in a reasonable, practical way, it doesn’t matter who you run in 2016."

Former CBS anchor Dan Rather weighed in on MSNBC's "Morning Joe", blasting Republicans' response to the recent alleged scandals in Washington.

The House committee has been established to investigate whether the State Department probe into the 2012 Benghazi attacks took senior leaders to task and whether the Obama administration misled the public in its early statements on the attacks' authors.

A recent national poll indicated that nearly half of Latinos have a favorable view of Obamacare, the highest rate of favorability among any ethnic or racial group. The finding comes as the GOP looks to expand outreach among Hispanic voters.