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It could happen. How can he not talk about it? It would be like the Dalai Lama visiting Beijing and not mentioning human rights. As we know, the The church has much to gain from the immigration issue. Its ranks have grown significantly in the last 30 ...

During the five-day window in April that the United States was accepting H-1B visa petitions, the government received 163,000 H-1B applications, nearly double the 85,000 visas that can be issued for fiscal 2009 starting Oct. 1. Of the petitions received ...

WASHINGTON, April 14 (UPI) -- U.S. military veterans about to finish their overseas tours of duty are a prime recruiting target of the U.S. Border Patrol, an agency spokeswoman says. Two teams of agency officers just returned from visiting six U.S. ...

The Bush administration is bulldozing environmental laws to build a controversial fence designed to block illegal immigrants from crossing the Mexican border. To force through its construction, the secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, waived ...

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- In an episode of the television show 'Seinfeld,' Jerry Seinfeld worries that his dentist has converted to Judaism so he can tell jokes about Jewish people. Someone asks Seinfeld, 'And this offends you as a Jewish person?' ...

Foreign students from US universities were previously required to leave the country and apply for the highly competitive H-1B visa. This s is due to change. /24-7PressRelease/ - April 13, 2008 - The influx of petitions for highly skilled foreign migrants ...

Comitan (Mexico), April 14: Mexican police has rescued 83 illegal migrants being transported in a hidden compartment of a truck carrying animal feed, Spain's EFE news agency reported Sunday. The migrants, 76 Guatemalans, five Salvadorans and two ...

NEW YORK: They risked their lives for America, but federal red tape is strangling the citizenship hopes of a new generation of foreign-born veterans. Just ask Feyad Mohammed of Queens - it took him four tries and more than a year to become a citizen, and ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reports that it has already received enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally mandated cap for fiscal year 2009. USCIS has also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on behalf of ...

Nikolaj Pedersen is receiving fewer visitors at his New Brunswick farmhouse, after friends, family and delivery people were told that getting there could be in violation of international laws. The 85-year-old lives outside of Aroostook, N.B., off a dusty ...