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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Frustrated by a steady flow of illegal Mexican immigrants into Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has decided to take matters into his own hands. Arpaio dispatches teams of sheriff's deputies into Hispanic communities where ...

Mexico City, Jun 19 (EFE).- The Mexican Attorney General's Office confirmed Thursday that 18 of the 33 Cubans who were detained by the INM immigration agency before being snatched away from federal agents by a group of armed assailants have arrived in ...

Stockholm: Sweden on Thursday denied asylum to a Chinese Muslim who was released from Guantanamo Bay after the US acknowledged he was not a terrorist. Adel Abdu Al Hakim, who belongs to a minority group of Turkic-speaking Chinese Muslims called Uighurs, ...

Mexican officials said Thursday that at least 18 Cubans have reached Texas more than a week after masked gunmen hijacked an immigration bus in southern Mexico and seized them.Mexico's Attorney General's Office said in a statement that the U.S. Border ...

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Earlier this month, several groups including the Immigration Law Reform Institute and The Programmers Guild filed a lawsuit to extend the amount of time foreign nationals can work in the United States on student visas from one year to 29 months. The ...

NEW DELHI: The US industry has once again come out in full force demanding that highly skilled workers on non-immigrant H-1 B visas be given employment-based immigrant visas or green cards. At a hearing before the committee on judiciary of the US House ...

State police commander Rodolfo del Angel says the Cubans found themselves adrift near Playa del Carmen, 60 miles (97 kilometers) south of Cancun, after the high-powered motorboat they were traveling in ran out of fuel. Del Angel says the Cuban were ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government Wednesday regretted the European Parliament's decision to tighten rules on the deportation of illegal immigrants. The European Parliament has adopted stricter rules to approach immigrants that ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Jun. 17, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A migrant-smuggling business appears to be operating in Mexico in collusion with the police and other corrupt authorities. Nearly 1,000 Cuban migrants were detained in the first four months of this year ...