WASHINGTON -- Members of the Senate immigration reform "gang of eight" worked furiously behind the scenes on Wednesday to come up with an amendment that would assuage Republican concerns about border security without driving away Democrats, a difficult balance that will prove pivotal to the success of the bill.

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WASHINGTON -- Erin Konkel traveled from Houston, Texas, to go to a daylong tea party rally on immigration reform Wednesday in front of the Capitol, where she held up a handmade sign for more than an hour. "RUBIO CONSERVATIVE RINO," it read, or Republican In Name Only.

She used to...

WASHINGTON -- The bipartisan immigration reform bill currently under consideration in the Senate would shrink the deficit by $197 billion over the next decade and $700 billion during the 10 years that followed, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated in a report released Tuesday.

The "gang of...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted down amendments on Tuesday to significantly expand border fencing and biometric systems to check entries into the United States, two Republican-proposed measures that could up the cost of comprehensive immigration reform and delay a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

The border amendment proposed...

WASHINGTON -- Senators working toward immigration reform insisted on Tuesday that House Speaker John Boehner hasn't doomed the effort by saying a comprehensive approach will only get a vote if the majority of his conference supports it. But they said his comments also show that the upper chamber...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced on Monday another amendment to throw a wrench into the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform bill: tying it to voter ID.

The amendment, which he first announced on Twitter, is unlikely to make it into the eventual bill. Cruz...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) made another threat on Thursday to walk away from his own comprehensive immigration reform bill, this time over an amendment to provide the same immigration benefits to LGBT couples as heterosexual ones.

"If this bill has something in it that gives gay couples...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) unveiled an amendment on Wednesday that some argue could bring down the comprehensive immigration reform bill by putting in costly and difficult to reach border security requirements.

"It's not possible for us to support [Cornyn's] amendment as it is presently written," Sen. John McCain...

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said on Wednesday that some of his fellow lawmakers are glad sequestration allowed for spending cuts and that government agencies were responsible for making the actual decisions about where to slash funds.

"A lot of members of Congress will publicly complain and moan about the sequester...

A strong majority of Latino voters reject the idea that border enforcement should come before a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, according to a poll released Tuesday from Latino Decisions and pro-reform group Presente.org.

The poll, like other surveys on the topic, found strong support -- 81...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate immigration reform bill passed its first procedural hurdle on the floor Tuesday in a 82-15 vote, with only Republicans voting to block the bill from moving forward.

All Democrats voted for the bill to proceed. Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), John Boozman (Ark.), Ted Cruz (Texas),...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama gave a full endorsement of the "gang of eight" immigration reform bill on Tuesday, just ahead of its first vote on the Senate floor.

"If you're serious about actually fixing the system, then this is the vehicle to do it," he said at the...

The Service Employees International Union made a seven-figure ad buy on Tuesday in support of comprehensive immigration reform, touting it from the perspective of law enforcement, business owners, veterans, Republicans and immigrants themselves.

"Our immigration system is broken," a woman says in one of the ads, which will air...

WASHINGTON -- As efforts to comprehensively reform the nation’s immigration system near the first of several likely Senate votes, behind-the-scenes political machinations are becomming increasingly dramatic.

The bill put together by the bipartisan “gang of eight” faces its first test Tuesday afternoon in the form of a cloture vote,...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate kicked off its debate Friday on the "gang of eight" comprehensive immigration reform bill with vows from Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to fight its passage.

"From my perspective, there is no one amendment that can fix this bill," Lee, who at...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said again on Friday that "nobody" is being deported from the United States -- a nation that expelled a record of more than 400,000 people last year.

"The federal government has reached a point now where virtually no one is being...

WASHINGTON -- The House voted 224-201 on Thursday to end Department of Homeland Security discretion policies that allow it to delay deportations for young, undocumented immigrants and other people deemed low-priority, effectively demanding the government force out Dreamers who came to the United States as children.

The amendment, offered by...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho), one of four Republicans working on a bipartisan immigration reform bill, dropped out of the group on Wednesday, citing irreconcilable differences on how the legislation would deal with health care for current undocumented immigrants.

The four Democrats and four Republicans in the group...

WASHINGTON -- After Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) gave a pitch on Wednesday for House Republicans to support the Senate "gang of eight" immigration reform efforts, conservatives said they appreciate his attempt to strengthen the bill, but ultimately don't expect to support the upper chamber's legislation.

"We have enough House...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has made some immigration reform advocates nervous by insisting that the Senate "gang of eight" bill he helped draft needs more changes before it can pass, but fellow members of the group said on Tuesday that Rubio is still fully on board....