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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas Texas native Monica Castro accuses the U.S. Border Patrol of refusing to release her daughter to her when the girl's father was arrested in December 2003. Despite proving the child was born in the U.S., Castro says officials took ...

? Media Center Video Immigration News In a post on its public policy blog, on 5 June 2008, Google voiced its desire to see the U.S. government raise the 'artificially low' H-1B visa cap. The Internet search giant submitted 300 H-1B visa ...

The top U.S. immigration enforcement official told a congressional subcommittee yesterday that the Bush administration will disclose more information about foreigners who die in the sprawling network of federal detention centers around the country. Julie ...

Ottawa, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina) The Canadian Parliament's House of Commons approved an initiative Wednesday, that if ratified, would give asylum to US defectors from joining the Army for the occupation and war in Iraq in Canada. The approval of the project ...

Arthur Mkoyan, 17, and his family are set for deportation 10 days after graduation The family says they left Armenia in 1992 fearing for their lives Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the family has no legal basis to stay (CNN) -- A high school ...

OTTAWA (AP) - Parliament's lower house passed a nonbinding motion Tuesday allowing U.S. military deserters to stay in Canada, but the Conservative government was expected to ignore the vote. The opposition parties banded together to bypass ...

SAN DIEGO Christopher Saint Lucero and Manley Lamont Smith work for Wackenhut Corp., which holds a Border Patrol contract to escort illegal immigrants to Mexico after they are captured by agents in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. It was ...

Federal law enforcement agencies have increased criminal prosecutions of immigration violators to record levels, in part by filing minor charges against virtually every person caught illegally crossing some stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, according ...

WASHINGTON The Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog told lawmakers his office has new information that contradicts an earlier conclusion in the case of Maher Arar. Inspector general Richard Skinner released two versions of the investigative ...

Editor's Note: The term 'historic' is applied far too loosely to events that some authors wish to magnify in importance. But the vote by the Canadian parliament to give U.S. war resisters asylum and Canadian citizenship is worthy of the term. After all, ...