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President Barack Obama said last week that he wants to follow through on his promise to fix the immigration system. But that goal, always politically difficult, faces major hurdles: the crumbling economy, drug violence in Mexico, and a jam-packed agenda ...

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The US government's controversial restriction on companies from hiring skilled foreign workers with non-immigrant H-1B visas will continue for only two years, the immigration department has said. As part of a stimulus package passed last month for ...

Do you ever wonder how we can conquer the Middle East when we can't close our own borders? In the news just last week was this small sampling of headlines: More than 7,000 lives have been lost in Mexico's drug war in just the last 14 months, in which ...

The United States has unveiled an unlikely weapon in its battle against drugs gangs and illegal immigrants at the Texas-Mexico border - pub-goers in Australia. The drinkers are the most far-flung of a sizeable army of hi-tech foot soldiers recruited to ...

The US government's controversial restriction on companies from hiring skilled foreign workers with non-immigrant H-1B visas will continue for only two years, the immigration department has said. As part of a stimulus package passed last month for ...

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Washington: The U.S. governments controversial restriction on companies from hiring skilled foreign workers with non-immigrant H-1B visas will continue for only two years, the immigration department has said. As part of a stimulus package passed last ...

Washington: The U.S. governments controversial restriction on companies from hiring skilled foreign workers with non-immigrant H-1B visas will continue for only two years, the immigration department has said. As part of a stimulus package passed last ...

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* BRUSSELS: The insurgents are operating out of bases in Pakistan, but the US and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan will not be crossing the mountainous border to hunt them, said the US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan on Saturday. Richard Holbrooke's ...

WASHINGTON (AFP)--The U.S. is expected this week to announce plans to dispatch more federal agents to its border with Mexico in a bid to combat drug cartel operations there, U.S. officials said. Washington appears poised to bolster its customs and border ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) The US is expected this week to announce plans to dispatch more federal agents to its border with Mexico in a bid to combat drug cartel operations there, US officials said. Washington appears poised to bolster its customs and border ...

SEOUL: North Korea confirmed Saturday that it was holding two American journalists and accused the women of 'illegally intruding' on its territory. The two were arrested March 17 after crossing the border with China, the Korean Central News Agency said. ...

Washington: The US government's controversial restriction on companies from hiring skilled foreign workers with non-immigrant H-1B visas will continue for only two years, the immigration department has said. As part of a stimulus package passed last ...

With concerns over the economy taking precedence in Washington, efforts to re-ignite the contentious debate over Immigration reform in Congress have been met with resistance. George sought to cast the issue in moral terms, calling it 'a matter of ...

NEW YORK -- Farzana Morshed arrived from Bangladesh three years ago without any real grasp of English. Her husband had to help her open a bank account, an interpreter was necessary when she needed medical care and she couldn't go anywhere by herself for ...

At next month's G-20 meeting, leaders from 20 countries will put their heads together to solve the world's toughest challenges. But imagine if the super-collaboration of the G-20 became a meeting of just G-1? Protectionist regulation added to the ...

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Mexico this week to discuss the drug-related violence that left 6,200 dead there last year and is now spreading across the U.S. border, she should be told in unmistakable terms: Stop the trafficking of U.S. ...

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