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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... ...