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General Board of Global Ministries The United Methodist Church 475 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10115 Contact: Elliott Wright Tel: 212/870-3921 email: ewright@gbgm-umc.org Phoenix, Arizona, April 16, 2009-- A group of United Methodist bishops has ...

The by U.S. companies is decreasing wages for computer programmers, system analysts and software engineers by as much as 6%, according to a study released last week by researchers at New York University's Stern School of Business and the Wharton School ...

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WASHINGTON (PRNewswire).- More than US$1.1 million will be used to improve agricultural training, marketing and planting more profitable crops along the impoverished Haiti-Dominican Republic border, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) ...

SUNLAND PARK, N.M. ? The U.S. military has no plans to send troops to the border with Mexico, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday. Adm. Michael Mullen, who spoke to reporters after a brief tour of the border in and around El Paso, ...

MANILA, Philippines - Two American fugitives, wanted for drug trafficking and an P18-million dollar bank fraud, will be returned to the United States to face trial, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said yesterday. The BI said in a statement that they have ...

POTTSVILLE, Pa. A Pennsylvania prosecutor says charges have been dropped against one of three teenagers arrested in the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico last year. Schuylkill County prosecutor James Goodman says 17-year-old Colin Walsh ...

The nation?s two largest labor union federations, the AFL-CIO and the Change to Win, announced on April 13 unanimous support for planned legislation that will achieve a wholesale overhaul of the official American stance on immigration. Specifically, ...

OTTAWA'Canada-U.S. border slowdowns are mainly a result of aging infrastructure at crossings, not overly restrictive U.S. policy, says a senior American security official. With a deadline looming that will require passports for entry into the U.S. by ...

MEXICO CITY The relationship between Presidents and Vicente Fox started promisingly in 2001 with talk of a U.S.-Mexico plan to reform the U.S. Immigration system. Then came the Sept. 11 attacks, and there was little appetite for aiding foreigners living ...

Escalating violence in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez has finally provided justification for something the United States should have been doing since the early 1990s?securing its southern border. Over the past few months, Mexican president ...

NEW: Obama says he has 'not backed off' pledge to reinstate ban NEW: Caldern says end of U.S. assault-weapons ban tied to rise in drug violence NEW: 90 percent of caotured assault weapons come from U.S., Caldern says Obama heading to Summit of the ...

The White House announcement that it will tackle comprehensive immigration reform this year is good news for the roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and their supporters. However, if the package does not include at least the ...

President Obama will make a stop in Mexico City today, the first presidential visit to the hemisphere?s largest metropolis since the early 1990s. He?ll meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and the topic will be what I?m calling the NAFTA ...

Bishop Minerva Carcao marches Feb. 28 in Phoenix with demonstrators to protest crackdowns on illegal immigrants. A UMNS file photo by Kathy L. Gilbert. A UMNS Report A United Methodist bishop is applauding the White House for upcoming conversations on ...

EL PASO, Texas -- A former Justice Department official who led a 1990s crackdown on illegal border crossings was named to the new U.S. post of 'border czar' Wednesday to oversee efforts to end drug-cartel violence along the U.S.-Mexico border and to slow ...

MEXICO CITYPresident Barack Obama says that when it comes to overhauling immigration, one of his goals is to eliminate the politics that doomed a previous attempt to revamp the system. Obama says he favors a commonsense approach that will help people on ...

The invitation came to a handful of Canadian journalists. Thirty minutes, on the record, with Jane Holl Lute - the number two official in the United States Department of Homeland Security - while she was Ottawa this week to discuss U-S perspectives on ...

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