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LANSING, Mich. - For lack of $10, Margo Kindred was forced to move with her teenage son and three young grandchildren to a homeless shelter.Though she qualifies for welfare benefits, Kindred didn't find out she needed to present her Colorado birth ...

While the nation's immigration cops have raided job sites and picked up illegal immigrants across the country in the past year, hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants sit in jails, already convicted of crimes.Yet they often are released back ...

CIUDAD JUREZ, Mexico: When George Terrazas was mugged at gunpoint in this Mexican border city several months ago, he vowed never to return. That, however, was before gasoline hit $4 a gallon in his hometown, El Paso, Texas, just across the border. On ...

Kindred was eligible for welfare benefits from the state of Michigan, but she couldn't qualify without her Colorado birth certificate and didn't have the $10 to get it. 'I couldn't squeeze it out, because there was nothing left to squeeze,' the ...

LIMA, Peru-Peruvian President Alan Garcia says immigration legislation approved by the European Union is abusive toward undocumented Latin American migrants. Garcia plans to meet with members of the Organization of American States this week to form a ...

YUMA, Arizona (Reuters) - U.S. National Guard troops are coming to the end of a temporary deployment on the Mexico border next month, widely credited with helping border police stem the flow of illegal crossers. President George W. Bush ordered 6,0 ...

by John Martellaro, 2:50 PM EDT, June 25th, 2008 The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to search, copy contents or seize a notebook computer or mobile phone when travelers re-enter the U.S. Various groups have sought scrutiny of the practice in ...

The raid took place at Action Rags U.S.A., just north of the Houston Ship Channel. The company's Web site says it specializes in selling used clothes to countries such as Africa, South America, India and Pakistan. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

The US military has constructed four advanced bases 20 miles from Iraq's border with Iran, a senior Iraqi police officer has announced. The (more) The US military has constructed four advanced bases 20 miles from Iraq's border with Iran, a senior Iraqi ...

WASHINGTON The unprecedented Labor Department inquiry centers on Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy a New York firm at the forefront of a political effort to ease hiring of skilled foreign workers. The Labor Department is auditing all pending ...

Labor Department Targets Employers And Lawyers For Perceived Fraud Then Backtracks - Paparelli & Partners LLP - 24/06/2008, , United States: U.S. Labor Department Targets Employers And Lawyers For Perceived Fraud Then Backtracks Free Personalized ...

Larry Abramson, NPR Juan Medina of the Florida Department of Education meets with new laptop owner Ifrain Ramas, his brother and mother. Ifrain and 45 other students from Immokalee, Fla., have received their own laptops through the One Laptop Per Child ...

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0 What's this VANCOUVER (CBC) - The Mexican Consulate in Vancouver has launched an investigation after 80 people from Mexico were turned back at Vancouver International Airport Monday, even though they may have had the legal paperwork to allow them to ...

WASHINGTON - The nation's largest immigration law firm is under federal scrutiny over whether it helped major U.S. corporations disqualify American job applicants and give thousands of high-paying positions to immigrants. The unprecedented Labor ...

LOS ANGELES - Nitin Dhopade, the chief financial officer for Micro Solutions Enterprises, was headed toward the accounting department on the afternoon of Feb. 7 to deliver checks he had just signed. Suddenly, he says, he encountered armed men and women ...

The 32-year-old star became a US citizen last year, allowing her to vote in her first presidential election this November. She admits she was at least partly motivated by the convenience of being able to travel the world with an American passport instead ...

NEW YORK (June 24) - During a visit to Mexico in the wake of the massive Salmonella outbreak linked to raw tomatoes, Health & Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said he wants to open a food safety office in Latin America, according to the ...

NEW YORK - The New York Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit against the Justice Department alleges that federal authorities may have violated the privacy of the immigrants under a previously undisclosed FBI program the document refers to as 'Operation ...

The Governor of the Northern Marianas, Benigno Fitial, is poised to sue the U.S. government over the Commonwealth?s new immigration law. Governor Fitial announced last night on television that he has hired a team of U.S.-based lawyers to review a draft ...