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Let us be clear. We support the idea of enhanced border enforcement, but we support it as one ingredient in the recipe of comprehensive immigration reform. Enforcement only doesnt work as a national strategy to control illegal immigration. In October ...

Lawmakers in Washington say U.S. and Mexican authorities need much more help to battle violent drug traffickers. At a hearing this week, several members of a Senate committee blasted plans for a so-called "virtual fence" as a waste of taxpayer dollars. ...

The trouble with Arizona's draconian new law ...

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Presidential candidate Barack Obama once spoke about his commitment to bring millions of illegal immigrants 'out of the shadows' by overhauling federal immigration law during the first year of his administration. But now, nearly a year and half after ...

PHOENIX A bill the Arizona Legislature passed this week that would hand the state and local police broad powers to enforce immigration law has split police groups and sown confusion over how the law would be applied. While Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, ...

made a series of phone calls to Republican senators on Tuesday in an effort to grease the wheels for a bipartisan bill on immigration reform. The time frame for consideration of that bill remains vague, however, as the administration dismissed reports ...

HONOLULU Hawaiian lawmakers are moving closer to passing a measure allowing the state to ignore repeated requests for President Barack Obama's birth certificate. A conference committee unanimously voted Tuesday to advance the bill, which is aimed at ...

WASHINGTON The doorbell rang early that morning in 2006, before the three oldest Romeike children had begun their schoolwork at the familys kitchen table in Bissingen, Germany. Uwe Romeike peeked through a window and saw two police officers. ...

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Editor's note: is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. His new book is 'Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security: From World War II to the War on Terrorism,' published by Basic Books. ...

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A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbold, also known as the WartHog, flies at low altitude over an airshow in Quebec in 2003. Planes like these, dispatched from Michigan, are flying over Sarnia, Ont., on a regular basis. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press) First ...

Quicklink submitted by Sheila Samples (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) View Ratings | Rate It Secretary of State Clinton, in her Independence Day message to Israel, speaks only of Israel settling for ...

WINSLOW, Ariz. In the days since it became clear that Arizona would pass the nation's toughest law targeting illegal immigrants, this congenial Old West outpost has shown signs of splintering, with neighbors turning against neighbors and police worried ...

ext Size la-na-obama-immigration-20100422 Reporting from Washington When the Obama administration went before California's 9th Circuit Court last year seeking to deport a middle-class couple from Nevada, one judge criticized the government's case as ...

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PHOENIX - Republican Sen. John McCain, who once championed a path to citizenship for the nation's roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants, is now pushing for a crackdown on illegals amid the toughest re-election fight of his career. McCain's hardline ...

Opponents of the Senate Bill 1070 held a vigil outside the State Capitol during the lunch-hour Monday, showing solidarity in their hope for her veto. (John Pellizzari) Passage sends the bill to Gov. Jan Brewer, who has not taken a position on the measure ...

The Mexican embassy in the United States has written to the U.S. government expressing 'grave concern for the potentially serious consequences' of a controversial law targeting migrants in the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona, the Mexican Foreign ...