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OMAHA, Neb. - Residents of Fremont will get the chance to vote on a contentious proposal seeking to curb illegal immigration. A Dodge County district judge on Monday dismissed the city's claim that it can't legally enact a proposed ordinance that seeks ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that within the first five business days of April 2009, USCIS received almost half the petitions needed to meet the FY2010 cap of 60,000 and has received just short of the 20,000 needed to ...

The president of the American Samoa Chamber of Commerce, David Robinson, says he was finger-printed and locked in a room by federal agents upon arrival at Honolulu International Airport two weeks ago. He says there was no explanation. Mr Robinson says he ...

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Editor's Note: As immigrant rights advocates welcome the Obama administration's promise of comprehensive immigration reform, state and local authorities are stepping up efforts to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identify, arrest and ...

UNOFFICIAL websites charging Australian travellers to the US for mandatory security checks that should be free are still occupying top paid-for spots on Google despite the US Government complaining about the scam. Under new US legislation that came into ...

Luong Vu asks his daughter the same question each time she visits his Westminster hospital room: 'When are my sons coming?'Kimberly Vu sighs, as usual. 'We are still waiting,' she says to the 85-year-old family patriarch, who is fast losing his battle ...

Tags: Online, Big Tech, Politics, H-1B The H-1B visa program for skilled foreign workers depresses wages in the tech sector by about 6%, says a new report from NYU Stern and Penn's Wharton School of Business. Hardest hit: Recent college grads and people ...

Hawaii employers are seeking out fewer foreign workers with the recession cooling demand for the once highly prized H-1B temporary work visa. With layoffs and cutbacks across all industries, the flood of work-visa applications last seen in 2006 has ...

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The number of truck crossings into the United States from Canada and Mexico was 10.8 million in 2008, 6.0 percent fewer than in 2007, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a part of the Research and ...

Civil liberties groups are renewing calls for the Obama administration to change screening at border posts by limiting questions about Americans' political beliefs and religious practices and establishing a process for U.S. citizens and residents who are ...

Summary: A Media Matters analysis found that April 9 reports about immigration policy on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News frequently featured footage of people apparently crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The footage distorts the issue; it does not ...

PHOENIX -- It seemed a fortuitous alignment of justice and politics, George Iknadosian's trial beginning just as President Obama called for new attention to the flow of weapons from the United States to the drug cartels inside Mexico. The Phoenix gun ...

According to statements made in court, in March 2006, agent Rene Soliz of Alice, Texas contacted an individual in Dar-Es Salaam, Tanzania, who was selling leopard tortoises. Soliz asked to buy eight of the tortoises and indicated an interest in buying ...

EL CALABOZ, Texas -- With the hope of change evaporatingduring the Obama Administration, a federal judge ruled that Homeland Security can seize the Tamez family land. After a court battle, with an alert to the international community, the Tamez family ...

ASK THE US AMBASSADOR William E Todd, US Ambassador to Brunei. This week, I received an interesting question, one related to an issue very important to me - travel to the US. Before I begin to answer questions, as always, I look forward to hearing from ...

'Mexico to use biochip to control illegal immigration,' screamed the headline at earthtimes.org. That seemed like another terrific reason to break out the bubbly a bit early. As if I needed any excuse to imbibe early and often. Without reading the small ...

The movement for comprehensive immigration reform has gained a head of steam in the ten days since a the president planned to begin addressing the issue this year, and Bay Area residents are weighing in. Though overhauling the immigration system has ...

A type of crime, and criminal, once foreign to this landscape of blooming dogwoods had arrived in Shelby County. Sheriff Chris Curry felt it even before he laid eyes on the grisly scene. He called the state. The FBI. The DEA. Anyone he could think of. 'I ...