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is months away, but government officials are already preparing for the next federal census, when all adult residents of the United States will be asked to answer questions about their ethnicity, employment status, household size and other personal facts. ...

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Julio Ledezma had been chief of police in La Junta, a town of 8,700 in northern Mexico, for barely three months when a pair of strangers paid him a visit. They said an aide to the mayor had sent them, and they bore gifts: a briefcase stuffed with cash ...

Print E-mail MEXICO CITY- A survey by Mexico's National Human Rights Commission shows that thousands of mainly Central American migrants crossing the country to reach the United States are kidnapped for ransom every year. The commission says an estimated ...

MEXICO CITY - Criminal gangs, but also authorities, kidnapped almost 10,000 undocumented migrants in six months in Mexico, in an alarming, growing trend, the national human rights commission said Monday. 'The kidnapping of migrants has become a constant ...

CHICAGO - Raudel Sanchez's American dream was so strong that he tied a few possessions around his waist in 1967 and swam across the Rio Grande into Texas. 'I wanted to make a better life in America,' says Sanchez, 63. 'My dream was bringing my family ...

As the immigration reform debate begins to heat up again, some observers expect that one of the biggest and most controversial new elements will be a proposed national worker identification card for all Americans. A 'forgery-proof' worker ID card, ...

The U.S. and Mexico have agreed to work together to secure legal travel and trade across the countries' shared border. ...

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that a White House meeting on US immigration policy has been delayed yet again. No new date has been set for the meeting. The meeting is to launch the Obama administrations push for immigration reform. Two meetings one on 8 June and another on 17 June ...