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edition of 'WorldTrade Interactive'. President Obama will make his first formal visit to Canada Feb. 19, and two U.S. lawmakers are asking him to restart negotiations on a shared border management [SBM] accord. Reps. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., and John ...

By Lucia Leal. ).- U.S. religious leaders and members of Congress on Wednesday announced a campaign supported by hundreds of religious organizations around the country to ask the new administration this year to get started on a 'humane reform' of the ...

Alaska Airlines has reopened the debate on whether Virgin America qualifies under foreign ownership and control restrictions on US domestic carriers, by petitioning the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to conduct a public inquiry into the San ...

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The immigration agency has a chronic shortage of detention beds, and must juggle detainees among available spaces. This means that within weeks of an arrest, an immigrant may find himself transferred halfway across the country, far from family and ...

Deloitte Consulting and the studied the issue of the Skills Gap in 2005. They concluded at that time that 90% of employers were experiencing a shortage of skilled production employees, with 18% calling that shortage severe. The study recommended a ...

As if the Obama administration didn't have enough on its plate with a recession, bank troubles and any number of foreign policy crises, a non-partisan immigration think tank has offered the new president a roadmap to mend the country's dysfunctional ...

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ U.S. figure skater, ethnic Armenian Pierre Balian is training for the oncoming World Figure Skating Championship due Mar. 20-25 in LA, Armenian Figure Skating Federation President Samvel Khachatryan told PanARMENIAN.Net. The issue of ...

A U.S. fugitive accused in a mortgage fraud scheme was arrested at the U.S.?Canada border with $1 million US in Swiss bank certificates and $70,000 US stuffed in his cowboy boots, authorities said Wednesday. Christopher J. Warren, 27, also was carrying ...

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illegal immigrants home last year. (Common Dreams) The nondescript 737 jet taxied to the front of the runway line at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Aboard the flight, 53 passengers stared out windows as their rising plane banked toward Mexico ...

WASHINGTON - An immigration policy group said Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Securitys immigration mission has been undermined by wasteful spending along the southern border, law enforcement efforts that focused on snaring illegal workers ...

Jin Kyu at 22Jin Kyu Robertson has come a long way since she immigrated to the United States as a housemaid when she was 22. Since then, she rose to the rank of major in the U.S. army and completed a doctorate at Harvard University. Jin Robertson says ...

One of the worst messes facing the Obama administration is the disgraceful state of the federal government's immigration detention centers. There are 350 of these centers around the country, housing almost 30,000 men, women and even children waiting for ...

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - An American fugitive accused in a $100-million (U.S.) mortgage fraud was caught at the Canadian border after taking a taxi from Toronto with $1-million in Swiss bank certificates and $70,000 stuffed in his shoes, authorities said ...

Pedro Pablo slowly folds up his American flag blanket and stuffs it in his duffel bag. With it goes his American dream. 'I left my family and lost four years with them. I will ask them to forgive me,' he said. Pablo is an illegal immigrant from ...

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - A drug gang has kidnapped and killed six people near a town in the U.S.-Mexican border region, prompting a series of gun battles with soldiers that left 15 others dead. The violence started when gunmen kidnapped nine alleged ...

NEW DELHI: Software exporter Infosys which has sizeable onsite employee base in the US said the latest amendment to the H-1B visa rules for the country will not be applicable to it. 'We believe the amendments are restricted to the US companies which ...