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Millions of non-citizens, with 600,000 recently legalized, power Spain's economy. The once illegal immigrants now command higher wages and enjoy job security. But a recent economic downturn has spurred unemployment, and Spanish citizens looking for work ...

A South Florida man detained in Mexico for allegedly smuggling 37 Cubans into that country told friends he was merely going to visit his girlfriend's family there.Rufina Valdez said Thursday she is Nairobi Ortega's godmother and lives at an apartment ...

SAN DIEGO -- U.S. citizens here looking to relieve the pain from the pump have turned to Mexico for the remedy. There, a gallon of regular gasoline retails for $2.54, and less if you pay in pesos, The Associated Press reported. The difference is more ...

MEXICO CITY The hijacking of a bus carrying the illegal migrants to a detention center shows how violent criminal organizations are increasingly smuggling Cubans into the United States through Mexico. Cuba's ambassador to Mexico Manuel Aguilera blamed a ...

MEXICO CITY: A group of 18 Cubans crossed into Texas in good health more than a week after heavily armed masked men seized them from immigration agents in southern Mexico, the Attorney General's office said Thursday. The hijacking of a bus carrying the ...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Frustrated by a steady flow of illegal Mexican immigrants into Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has decided to take matters into his own hands. Arpaio dispatches teams of sheriff's deputies into Hispanic communities where ...

Mexico City, Jun 19 (EFE).- The Mexican Attorney General's Office confirmed Thursday that 18 of the 33 Cubans who were detained by the INM immigration agency before being snatched away from federal agents by a group of armed assailants have arrived in ...

Stockholm: Sweden on Thursday denied asylum to a Chinese Muslim who was released from Guantanamo Bay after the US acknowledged he was not a terrorist. Adel Abdu Al Hakim, who belongs to a minority group of Turkic-speaking Chinese Muslims called Uighurs, ...

Mexican officials said Thursday that at least 18 Cubans have reached Texas more than a week after masked gunmen hijacked an immigration bus in southern Mexico and seized them.Mexico's Attorney General's Office said in a statement that the U.S. Border ...

Russia: Politkovskaya Investigation Closed; Three Suspects Charged Commentary: Important, Doable, But (For Now) Improbable Belarus: Study Brands Minsk Worst City In Europe Russia: Hate-Crime Deaths Mounting, As Nationalists Close Ranks Central Asia: ...

Earlier this month, several groups including the Immigration Law Reform Institute and The Programmers Guild filed a lawsuit to extend the amount of time foreign nationals can work in the United States on student visas from one year to 29 months. The ...

NEW DELHI: The US industry has once again come out in full force demanding that highly skilled workers on non-immigrant H-1 B visas be given employment-based immigrant visas or green cards. At a hearing before the committee on judiciary of the US House ...

State police commander Rodolfo del Angel says the Cubans found themselves adrift near Playa del Carmen, 60 miles (97 kilometers) south of Cancun, after the high-powered motorboat they were traveling in ran out of fuel. Del Angel says the Cuban were ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government Wednesday regretted the European Parliament's decision to tighten rules on the deportation of illegal immigrants. The European Parliament has adopted stricter rules to approach immigrants that ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Jun. 17, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A migrant-smuggling business appears to be operating in Mexico in collusion with the police and other corrupt authorities. Nearly 1,000 Cuban migrants were detained in the first four months of this year ...

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In North Carolina, individuals without legal permanent resident status can still qualify for what is known as an 'ITIN mortgage' as long as they have an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), a sound credit history, and proof that they have ...

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is looking for a few good men or women, and will host a recruiting blitz in six cities, including Jacksonville.The federal agency hopes to hire 1,500 agents by the end of 2008 and educate Florida communities about ...

U.S. prosecutions of illegal immigrants are soaring so quickly that such cases are now dominating the federal courts, a study released this week said. A statistical analysis of the federal courts' caseload compiled by Syracuse University's Transactional ...