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Immigration Daily: the news source for legal professionals. Free! Join 17000+ readers Enter your email address here: David T. Beito has written a book of significance to many subdisciplines of history, including urban history, social history, ...

The Homeland Security Department is looking for creative ways to collect foreign visitors? biometric information upon exiting from land borders in the United States. The head of U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program ...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week offered the first public details of a proposed border-control system that will use biometric technology to authenticate the identities of visitors and immigrants entering the US. A request for ...

The new US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using the security efforts of others to secure the nation's borders with a state-of-the-art architecture that is spawning a long shopping list of technologies. Edward J Kinney, the bureau's ...

WASHINGTON-When it comes to immigration, Barack Obama and John McCain generally agree. It's just that they don't want to say so. Instead, the White House rivals accuse one another of flinching when it mattered most, during and after last year's Senate ...

Immigration stance called pandering Stephen Dinan (Contact) Font Size Sen. John McCain told a Hispanic group Saturday that passing an immigration bill to legalize illegal immigrants is 'my top priority, yesterday, today and tomorrow,' but ...

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What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law. Amazingly, that is happening now -- to some degree. This trend may already be shrinking the flood across the Mexican border and have a ...

Workers at the health department for Illinois' Bureau and Putnam counties don't need to look at a schedule to see whether the bilingual dentist is on duty. 'We tease around here that it's Spanish day because that's all we hear in the hallway,' says Diana ...

Drug cartels have made Juarez the deadliest city in Mexico. But they also operate just across the border, in El Paso, Texas one of the safest cities in the U.S. NPR's Jason Beaubien speaks with host Andrea Seabrook about efforts to stop the violence. ...

The Cuban migrant flow through Mexico, once an amusing novelty, is beginning to cause concern south of the border. Only three years ago, the sporadic arrival of Cuban migrants in Cancun and other ports in Mexico?s Yucatan peninsula drew only the ...

Congress has just passed a new law that will cost you dearly should you decide not to be a U.S. citizen anymore. You probably didn't notice this little provision inserted into the Heroes Act of 2008, passed by Congress on June 17. The headlines in the ...

WASHINGTON Courting the increasingly influential Latino vote, the rival presidential candidates each pledged Saturday to make overhauling the nation's immigration policies a top priority.In separate appearances before the National Assn. of Latino ...

McCain, the senator from the border state of Arizona who disappointed some Hispanic leaders by appearing to temper his support for comprehensive immigration law changes during the Republican primary, told the crowd that fixing U.S. immigration policy ...

McCain made the promise to a group of Latino elected officials as both he and Barack Obama court Hispanic voters who are a key constituency in several Western swing states and in the perennial electoral battleground of Florida. In a separate appearance ...

In the lead up to the Iraq War, the Bush Administration gathered more than 100,000 immigration records. The details remain murky on this effort, but it involved at least two programs: Operation Darkening Clouds, run by the FBI, and Operation Liberty ...

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US Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama have clashed over their commitment to immigration reform. Both Senators have made separate comments at an annual conference of Hispanic American officials. They have stepped up their efforts to court ...

WASHINGTON - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama on Saturday vied for the support of Hispanics, beginning a four-month courtship of a pivotal voting constituency by vowing to revamp immigration policy. 'I come from a border state, my dear ...