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Just west of El Paso, near where Spanish conquistador Juan de Onate crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in 1598, construction crews have completed a steel fence authorities say is a new model for border security. The five-meter (18-foot) tall fence has a ...

It is now being reported by several outlets that the Department of Homeland Security has been granted the power to seize travelers 'device(s) capable of storing information in digital or analog form,' including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, ...

By Paul Kiernan, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Monday he expects either Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., or Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to pass an immigration reform law quickly, whoever wins the ...

WASHINGTON ? U.S. officials said the Bush administration has approved the sale of the M1A1 Abrams MBT to the Iraq Army. They said the sale would significantly enhance the post-Saddam Hussein military and launch efforts to help Iraq defend against enemy ...

Keen to avoid a US intervention or cut-off of funds, Pakistan's government has proposed 'immediate action' by revamping its military and intelligence set up in the restive border areas with Afghanistan to counter the growing threat from al Qaeda and ...

MEXICO CITY - Olga Arellano sobs as she recalls how her HIV-positive daughter spent two months succumbing to infections in a U.S. migrant detention centre, complaining that she didn't see a doctor or get the right medicine. Fellow inmates also begged for ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Olga Arellano sobs as she recalls how her HIV-positive daughter spent two months succumbing to infections in a U.S. migrant detention center, complaining that she didn't see a doctor or get the right medicine.Fellow inmates also begged ...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Two decades ago, the Rubashkin family of Brooklyn opened up a kosher slaughterhouse amid the cornfields of Iowa not exactly a center of Jewish culture.The bearded, fedora-wearing strangers from Brooklyn quickly transformed Postville into ...

Sweet sorghum Photo: icrisat.org SANTO DOMINGO. - The Agro-industrial Complex Fnix, an alternative energy project whose expected cost is US$340 million, will improve the economy of the border provinces Montecristi, Dajabn, Santiago Rodriguez and ...

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over immigration reform is how to deal with the estimated 12 to 15 million illegal aliens in the United States. Supporters of 'comprehensive' reform often falsely present the issue as a choice between ...

Mexico City - The Sixth International AIDS Conference (IAC) scheduled for San Francisco in 1990 instigated boycotts that drew international attention due to the discriminatory bar on HIV-positive people traveling or immigrating to the U.S. Since that ...

Equal parts graceful and eerie, massive brick and stone asylums once loomed over towns from Maine to California as the 19th century's ideal for the humane treatment of America's mentally ill. Ornate facades, turrets, sprawling grounds and sheer palatial ...

By The Associated Press VERACRUZ, Mexico - Two people are dead after a shootout between Mexican police and smugglers driving a truck packed with illegal immigrants from Central America. Police caught up with the truck near the town of Agua Dulce in ...

Voting records and campaign pronouncements are the coin of the realm for pundits trying to predict how a presidential contender will lead once he moves into the Oval Office. But presidential scholars say congressional votes and campaign promises are ...

CHICAGO -- Immigrant children of all backgrounds get even less vigorous exercise than their U.S.-born counterparts, the largest study of its kind suggests. Plenty of earlier evidence shows that U.S. children are pretty inactive. The new study of nearly ...

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Previous Issues Comment Double Jeopardy Washington Post reports 'Lawyers and activists said Ingleson is one of a rising number of legal immigrants with relatively old and minor criminal records to be snagged in the federal government's stepped-up ...

Many Mexican immigrants with HIV/AIDS say their country still has a repressive, sometimes brutal way of dealing with those afflicted with the virus. As a result, HIV/AIDS patients in Mexico are seeking and getting political asylum in the U.S. ...

DETROIT - A film critic is accused of illegally trying to return to the United States with nearly $12,000 stashed in a cigar box. Elvis Mitchell's explanation: Oops. He was travelling with the wrong box. Mitchell was entering Detroit in a cab from ...

Intel unveils chip technologyIntel on Monday is providing the first details of a chip technology that is designed to help break into new markets, starting with high-end graphics used for computer games and animation, reports The Wall Street Journal.The ...