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(Reuters) - The U.S. homeland security chief vowed to install more high-tech equipment along the border with Mexico and said on Wednesday the first section of a 'virtual fence' was working despite problems and delays. 'The system is now functionally ...

EL CALABOZ, Texas/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Standing on a grassy levee, Eloisa Tamez stares at the modest dwellings on her property near the U.S. border with Mexico and cannot imagine a wall running through it. Tamez filed a class-action suit in February ...

(This is the second story in a series on U.S. border fences) EL CALABOZ, Texas/WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - Standing on a grassy levee, Eloisa Tamez stares at the modest dwellings on her property near the U.S. border with Mexico and cannot imagine a ...

In January, the U.S. Immigration Service signed a pact with the Vietnamese government, agreeing to deport thousands of illegal Vietnamese immigrants who are currently under deportation orders. Prior to this pact, the Vietnamese government refused to ...

ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: As Sen. John McCain was making the Republican rounds in Washington on his first day as the official presumptive presidential nominee, appearing unified with his party at the White House and the Republican National Committee, ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. homeland security chief vowed to install more high-tech equipment along the border with Mexico and said on Wednesday the first section of 'virtual fence' was working despite problems and delays. 'The system is now functionally ...

PMWASHINGTON, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- County officials along the U.S./Mexico border say the cost of apprehending, arresting and convicting undocumented immigrants is crippling their courts and the region's entire criminal justice system. In a ...

CARACAS (AFP)--Venezuela's Defense Minister Gustavo Rangel on Wednesday said Caracas' deployment of troops toward the Colombian border was aimed at countering a U.S. expansionist drive. Rangel told a press conference that 10 batallions of troops were ...

Some folks predict the volume of H-1B visas petitions employers file starting April 1 will be lighter than last year. But that's not because demand is waning for foreign tech talent. Rather, companies are being more selective in the kind of talent ...

Posted by: Michael Hammond in: H-1(b) News, USCIS On Feb 4th, the USCIS issued a new policy stating that they will proceed with the adjudication of certain petitions, most notably I-485 cases if the FBI fingerprint check and IBIS check have both cleared ...