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A top regional official with U.S. Customs and Border Protection is going to be meeting with residents of the Vermont border community of Derby Line to talk about what some residents feel is heavy-handed policing along the U.S.-Canadian border. ...

Obama began with a review of the key role immigration has played in the development of the United States, including fueling a youthful work force essential to economic expansion. He described how various waves of newcomers, from Poles and Irish to ...

A US immigration judge on Wednesday ruled in favor of an asylum petition from Mosab Hasan Yousef, the son of a prominent Hamas sheikh who converted to Christianity and worked as an undercover agent for Israel, after the US Department of Homeland ...

By Colleen Long New York - An imam who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into a suicide bomb plot against New York City subway stations has been deported. The lawyer for Ahmad Afzali says Afzali and his wife left on a Saudi ...

President Obama tried to put the contentious issue of immigration reform back on the table with a speech last week, but there were reasons to wonder how much political capital he is willing to spend to overhaul the broken system. Clue No. 1 that Obama... ...

WASHINGTON - In his first major speech on the issue, President Barack Obama on Thursday called for immigration reform legislation that would include a pathway to citizenship for the country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants but said it could not ...

When Obama could have passed comprehensive immigration reform when he still had 60 Senate Democrats he didnt lift a finger to push it. Now that he cant pass it it is too late in the year, he doesnt have 60 votes and many Democrats ...

A Toronto-area man who came to Calgary after an investment deal went sour was found tied in his Range Rover only a few hundred metres from the border as his alleged abductors tried to take him to the United States. Police say the incident unfolded on ...

July 06--Grade C, Mr. President. That's how I rate your speech on immigration, pitched as a message 'to make the clear case for comprehensive immigration reform.' Americans don't need to be mollycoddled with phrasings from the Statue of Liberty and ...

How often in recent times have you heard of a group of Muslims filing a formal protest over some action, be it large or tiny, done or said by our Christian citizens for whom this country was founded? Plenty, Id bet; as I know it seems that way to me. Any ...

Reporting from Phoenix Rafael Robles has been eligible to vote ever since he became a U.S. citizen 23 years ago, but nothing has spurred him to register until two young activists visited his house here last week. The canvassers were part of an ambitious ...

At dinner recently here in Washington D.C., one of our good friendsbright, well informed, and politically activeadvised my wife and myself that she and her friends have recently been up on Capitol Hill lobbying for the Dream Act. 'Those poor kids ...

The Farmers Branch City Council was warned by its former city manager that litigation over its immigration ordinance would be costly and that similar issues were already being litigated by the city of Hazleton, Pa., "with somebody else's money," ...

Lisa Anne O?Connor Dalton first saw Boston from the water a decade ago, when she sailed into the city as a crew member on one of the Tall Ships that had crossed the Atlantic. She fell for Boston, hard, and came back as soon as she could. Seven years ago, ...

"Years before the statue was built," Barack Obama began the peroration of his July 1 speech on immigration, Emma Lazarus "imagined what it could mean." Actually, the French sculptor Bartholdi was at work on the Statue... ...

This week as always, Both Sides Now sought to clarify differences or bridge them. With Federer and King losing their crowns this week, it appeared that Kagan was winning her robes. Arianna and Susan Molinari (sitting in for a traveling Mary Matalin) ...

The federal government verses the state government on the issue of federalism is now at the forefront of American interests this month. We have a clear-cut case of preemption by the state of Arizona, who has grown tired and frustrated with the powers ...

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday said Israel must present a clear peace initiative to the US, showing proposed borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state. Speaking at the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Barak noted that ...

Anticipating a furor of voter criticism over the July Fourth recess, Democratic lawmakers from the border region shot back at the White House last week, challenging the presidents speech on immigration in which he said that the southern border is ...

By Jane M. Orient, M.D. (AXcess News) Phoenix - On July 1, Barack Obama spoke of the immigrants who helped build our country - such as my great-grandparents. They passed through public health screening, obeyed the law, worked hard, and never got welfare ...