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As earlier reported by Michigan Messenger, activists in Detroit say Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surrounded a school in order to detain an undocumented resident. In a follow up on the press conference held by the Alliance for Immigrants Rights and Reforms, Khaalid Walls, spokesperson for ICE in Michigan, first issued the following statement: Jose Maldonado Placensia, a fugitive alien, was arrested March 31st and is currently in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

It might not be quite as dramatic as the recent Congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball, and Roger Clemens won’t be there to attract hordes of

There’s been a lot of talk about the so-called clean energy race between the United States and China. But there’s a home-grown energy race brewing that has

More economic pessimism from Paul Krugman, whose skeptical views have a growing following: The United States risks losing an entire decade of growth and

Thought the massive quantities of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico were the only major threat to the country’s southeast coastal waters right now? Think

The coal mine that exploded last month in West Virginia -- killing 29 workers and all but killing a 30th -- may be shuttered in the wake of the blast, but

Rather than waiting on legislative approval for his most recent budget cut push, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has issued an executive order slashing the state budget

The next few weeks will be filled with discussions about the future of U.S.-Mexico relations in fighting drug cartel violence. The Houston Chronicle reports

Less than two weeks after U.S. Rep.

Moments ago, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) took to the chamber floor with a strange claim about the urgency surrounding legislation to extend unemployment

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was already facing a tough re-election campaign. And that was before he was indicted on seven counts of corruption-related

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) just gave a remarkable speech at the Senate Judiciary Committee markup session explaining why he’s voting against reauthorization of

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) was none too pleased with The New York Times this morning. At the Senate Judiciary Committee’s markup session of the Patriot

Speaking of Guantanamo, The New York Times profiles an Al Jazeera journalist, Sami al-Hajj, who was wrongly imprisoned there for seven years. We’ve had protests

More from the loquacious Barney Frank, whose patience with Treasury Sec. Henry M. Paulson Jr. appears to be growing thin after the White House yesterday chose

Sarah Zibanejadrad of our video team was at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) speech today to the America’s Future Now conference when a protest broke

Ben Smith has the scoop on Keep America Safe, a new pressure group headed up by former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs

We wrote yesterday that housing advocates were concerned that the Senate’s stimulus bill eliminated all funding for a program allowing communities hit hardest

Yesterday, Noah Shachtman asked if the United States was really at war in Pakistan. Today President Obama made it clear: yes, the war is in Pakistan, with an

Leading up to the 2012 election, women are watching -- more specifically, Planned Parenthood is watching. On Election Day 2011, when Mississippians voted down

California Republicans are publicly wringing their hands this primary day over the possibility that a birther movement leader may actually be their nominee for