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Attorney says gay man faces persecution, quarantine Raul Hernandez, a gay man who defected from Cuba in 1993 to live in Brazil, had hoped to obtain permanent U.S. residency under the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act after he arrived in 2000. Congress passed ...

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The U.S.-Canada border has a history of being porous, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced this week - a good reason for both countries to 'harden' the international boundary, according to a report in the Canadian Press. Homeland Security ...

The Project 28 virtual border fence in Arizona cannot currently deliver live streaming video to Border Patrol agents in the field, a Department of Homeland Security official said May 19. Streaming video is a key capability that would have allowed agents ...

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei spoke of enemy plans to destabilize the Iranian government from behind the western borders. 'The United States is promoting terrorism behind [Iran's] western frontiers... They [the US government] directly finance operations ...

Mexican troups guard 10 tons of marijuana that was seized this week at the border with California. MORE ON POLITICS WASHINGTON ? The Defense Department and Department of Homeland Security are finalizing plans to station National Guard troops along the ...

Canadian Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan will meet with US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on May 26 and 27 in Detroit and in Ottawa to discuss border issues, a statement said Wednesday. The meeting would be the first of twice yearly ...

While legislation to reform H-1B and L-1 worker visas has resurfaced in the Senate, changes to the visa programs used for foreign temporary IT workers will likely be debated by U.S. lawmakers only if the amendments are part of a more comprehensive ...

The number of arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped 27 percent this year, a decline that could put the figure at its lowest level since the early 1970s, federal officials said yesterday. The decline accelerates a three-year-old trend that experts ...

What's this PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. government program empowering local police officers to enforce immigration laws undermines their efforts to maintain public safety, according to a report released on Wednesday. Around 11.9 million mostly Hispanic ...

What's this WASHINGTON (AFP) - US senators on Wednesday reintroduced legislation aimed at bringing together immigrant families who are often torn apart for years due to a severe backlog. The bill stalled last year in Congress but the political climate ...

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By Maria Pea. ).- President Barack Obama has scheduled a meeting with congressional leaders from both parties to discuss the topic of immigration reform with a view making progress on that contentious issue this year, an official told Efe. 'The ...

WASHINGTON: Owing to sluggish US economy, the H-1B visa programme, once the most sought after among Indian professionals, still has nearly 20,000 slots vacant, seven weeks after the American authorities started receiving applications for the fiscal 2010 ...

Although President Obama has spent much of his time in office moving away from the policies of his predecessor, on immigration enforcement, he has embraced several Bush administration initiatives, and the changes he has promised to make are couched in ...

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WASHINGTON (AFP) US authorities have nabbed 338 smugglers, and 1,441 firearms on the Mexican border in less than a year in an operation aimed at keeping the guns out of Mexico, a top US official said Wednesday. 'Since its (June 2008) inception, ...

Washington: Owing to sluggish US economy, the H-1B visa programme, once the most sought after among Indian professionals, still has nearly 20,000 slots vacant, seven weeks after the American authorities started receiving applications for the fiscal 2010 ...

WASHINGTON: Once the most sought after H-1B American work visa is still having nearly 20,000 slots open seven weeks after the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) started receiving applications for the financial year 2010 beginning October ...

Although President Obama has spent much of his time in office moving away from the policies of his predecessor, on immigration enforcement, he has embraced several Bush administration initiatives, and the changes he has promised to make are couched in ...