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President Obamas budget proposal for fiscal year 2011, which he unveiled recently, matches funding requests to a policy agenda thats played out his first year. In particular, the Obama budget sells America short on border security -- though there are a ...

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State Sen. Gilbert Cedillo with visitors at his Capitol office last week. A staunch early supporter of Obama, Cedillo says he's frustrated. WASHINGTON As one of the first Latinos in the nation to endorse Barack Obama, Democratic state Sen. Gilbert ...

J.D. Hayworth, who is contesting Sen. John McCain in the GOP primary, plans to make border security and illegal immigration key campaign themes and to tap 'energy' of resurgent conservatives. Radio personality and former US Congressman JD Hayworth ...

Judges pressured to decide deportations quickly, advocates say The Arizona Republic Stepped-up immigration enforcement is overloading U.S. immigration courts and undermining the ability of judges to rule fairly because they are under growing pressure to ...

When federal agents kicked in the door of a upscale home near Seven Lakes High School in Katy in June 2008, they found cocaine, handguns and an unexpected bonanza; $1,379,510 in cash bundled up and waiting for a short trip back to the Mexican border. ...

tags: immigrants, workers A new study by the Economic Policy Institute takes on the idea that immigration is causing a drop in wages of U.S.-born workers. Rather, it suggests that immigration actually increases the wages of U.S.-born workers overall, but ...

Judges in Phoenix courts inundated with immigration cases find it hard to rule fairly under increasing pressure to decide cases quickly, legal analysts say. Increased immigration enforcement efforts are creating a judicial backlog, which means delays of ...

Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River, wants to stop offenders from breaking the law overseas. WASHINGTON If Rep. Dan Lungren has his way, Megan's Law will soon be going international. The law requires convicted sex offenders to be registered with the ...

Gov. Rick Perry has asked the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy a Predator -- the unmanned aircraft used by the military both for gathering intelligence and carrying out missile strikes -- to help improve border security and provide 'real-time' data. ...

Armenia -- Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian and U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch attend a panel discussion in Yerevan on February 12, 2010. Armenia would draw substantial economic benefits from the possible opening of its border with Turkey and most ...

dwalters@sacbee.com The Sacramento Bee The professional football season has ended. Baseball is a couple of months away, but a die-hard fan still has plenty of midwinter sports on the tube, not even counting the Winter Olympics. Basketball, both pro and ...

Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River, wants to stop offenders from breaking the law overseas. WASHINGTON If Rep. Dan Lungren has his way, Megan's Law will soon be going international. The law requires convicted sex offenders to be registered with the ...

in Arizona this year has been lethal for illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico into the United States, with nine people dying from hypothermia since November. The same number of immigrants died of hypothermia during the previous three winters combined. ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Dozens of immigrants from North Africa rioted during the night in a multi-ethnic neighborhood in Milan, smashing shop windows, overturning cars to protest at the knifing death of an Egyptian, Italian police said on Sunday. ...

Tucson, Ariz. - An unusually wet winter in Arizona has been lethal for illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico into the United States, with nine people dying from hypothermia since November. The same number of immigrants died of hypothermia during the ...

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. There was a time, just a few years ago, when the lives of Emilio and Analia Maya brimmed with possibility, when their little Main Street cafe thrived and their hard-fought dream of life in America seemed enticingly within reach. They ...

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NEW YORK Federal officials said they will work to ensure that immigration detainees being transferred from a Manhattan detention center to a New Jersey jail can return to the city to meet with relatives and their lawyers. The U.S. Immigration and ...