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Early next year is a window of opportunity for Congress to act on immigration reform, says a leading national apple lobbyist. A year ago, Nancy Foster, president and chief executive officer of U.S. Apple Association, said the shift of power to the ...

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States has granted political asylum to the wife and children of jailed Chinese civil rights lawyer Guo Feixiong who the family says is suffering abuse, supporters said Saturday. Guo, who is serving a five-year prison ...

A week of work was far from average for seven Florence County sheriff's deputies who spent several days this month guarding the U.S.-Mexico border just a few paces from the most world's most dangerous city, Juarez, Mexico. During the first week of ...

that approximately 55,600 H-1B cap subject petitions had been filed. Also, that as already announced all 20,000 H-1B visas available for aliens with advanced degrees had been used and that new H-1B petitions filed for those with advanced degree will be ...

asylum to the wife and children of jailed Chinese civil rights lawyer Guo Feixiong. Mr Guo, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for 'running an illegal business,' became well-known for his work on behalf of villagers who tried to remove a local ...

The midterm congressional elections, a disappointed electorate and, most likely, more economic pain are all waiting for the country in 2010. And the Obama administration wants to tackle immigration reform? We'll see. For now, Homeland Security Secretary ...

A lesbian soldier who deserted the U.S. army won a key court victory Friday when a judge ordered the refugee board to reconsider her failed asylum claim and take into account compelling evidence that she was persecuted and that her sexual orientation ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said there is cross border fertilization of terrorism in :Pakistan from Afghanistan and the US would continue to press Islamabad to go after extremism in the country. 'We know that there is a cross-border ...

Two U.S. Senators have introduced legislation meant to prohibit major firms that lay off large numbers of American workers from replacing them with the cheap foreign labor through temporary guest worker programs. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and ...