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Tuesday, January 22, 2013  Support is building in New York for a "DREAM Act" that would provide financial aid and other assistance to college-bound illegal immigrants in the state.

Friday, June 15, 2012  President Barack Obama says his plan to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children will make the system "more fair, more efficient and more just."

Friday, May 04, 2012  Local labor leaders are calling for a crackdown on illegal immigrants after the arrests of 6 workers employed at a Syracuse University dormitory project.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012  Five illegal immigrants discovered in Cortlandville were turned over to Border Patrol.

Tuesday, April 03, 2012  A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to transporting illegal immigrants from Texas to northern New York, where he was arrested after mistakenly trying to enter Canada.

Thursday, March 08, 2012  Federal agents say a green card mill operating out of a Lewis County farmhouse provided fake documentation to dozens of illegal immigrants.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011  Health insurers in New York will no longer be allowed to require policy holders to have their prescriptions filled by mail under a bill signed into law Tuesday that is considered win for local drug stores and for immigrants.

Thursday, August 05, 2010  Children are now in the center of the immigration controversy.

Wednesday, August 04, 2010  A group of Republicans senators is calling for a closer look at how the U.S. determines citizenship