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springs, Texas is a small town - population 1,200 - with a tough battle on its hands. It's an old wool-shipping center where God, church and the border are at the center of life. The Edwards County Sheriff's Office keeps watch over the city with just ...

The head of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee is calling on President Bush to commute the prison sentences of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted for shooting a fleeing drug suspect in Texas. Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Bill Delahunt called ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Felipe Calderon on Friday told Mexican consuls to the U.S. and Canada that they must work to 'neutralize' anti-immigrant attitudes north of the border. Calderon's instructions came two days after he accused U.S. presidential ...

Following unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Patrick Shen was sworn in Nov. 13, 2007, as Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Previously, Mr. Shen was ...

Government Neglecting Healthcare Needs of Ill Detainees (New York, December 7, 2007) The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should upgrade its care and treatment of immigrant detainees with HIV, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A crackdown by scores of U.S. states and municipalities on illegal immigration threatens the competitiveness of businesses across the country, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce report said on Friday. The report looked at more than 1,500 ...

PM SEATTLE, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of U.S. State Legislators, including Texas State Senator Eliot Shapleigh of El Paso, recently learned first-hand how the Canada-U.S. Border works. As participants on the Canada Border Security Tour, ...

WASHINGTON - A crackdown by scores of U.S. states and municipalities on illegal immigration threatens the competitiveness of businesses across the country, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce report said on Friday. The report looked at more than 1,500 measures ...

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(AP) Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee proposes to stop illegal immigration with a Mexico border fence, more border patrol agents and forcing illegal immigrants to go home before they can return. Released Friday, Huckabee's plan takes a tough ...

DES MOINES, Iowa: Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee proposes to stop illegal immigration with a Mexico border fence, more border patrol agents and forcing illegal immigrants to go home before they can return. Released Friday, Huckabee's plan ...

MEXICO CITY - President Felipe Calderon on Friday told Mexican consuls to the U.S. and Canada that they must work to 'neutralize' anti-immigrant attitudes north of the border. Calderon's instructions came two days after he accused U.S. presidential ...

From 1965 to 1973, while the U.S. government was engaged in a brutal war against the people of Vietnam, more than 50,000 draft-age men from the U.S. fled to Canada, refusing to participate in what they considered an immoral war. Then, Canadian Prime ...

PORTLAND, Ore. A panel of students, faculty and administrators is proposing charging in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students at Oregon's public universities. The idea didn't get to the last Legislature but is being discussed through Friday ...

TECATE, California: The tunnel opening cut into the floor of a shipping container here drops three levels, each accessible by ladders, first a metal one and then two others fashioned from wood pallets. The tunnel stretches 1,300 feet to the south, ...

PHILADELPHIA A doctor and his wife who were ordered deported because of a long-ago error on their immigration paperwork have been granted an indefinite reprieve, authorities and their lawyer said Thursday. Deportation proceedings against Dr. Pedro ...

PMThe Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR) TIME: 10 a.m. EVENT: The Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR) holds a discussion on the impact of illegal immigration and state efforts to enforce immigration laws. PARTICIPANTS: State ...

Mexico, Dec 6 (Prensa Latina) Mexico's Attorney General's Office (PGR) defines the border between the Mexican state of Tamaulipas and the United States as the center of operations for the Gulf drug cartel and Los Zetas group, PGR revealed on Thursday. ...

8:30 AM CST, December 6, 2007 DALLAS ...

Nation by Claudine LoMonaco Listen Now [3 min 30 sec] Morning Edition, December 6, 2007 As if the controversy over constructing hundreds of miles of border fence to stem the tide of illegal immigrants along the Mexican border isn't enough, there is now ...