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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Farmers are reporting their fruit and vegetable pickers have fled, leaving crops to rot in the field, and principals say many students have withdrawn from school as even legal U.S. residents flee Alabama after a harsh new immigration ...

Computerworld - WASHINGTON - The White House is attempting to make it more attractive for foreign entrepreneurs to create a business in the U.S. by "clarifying" H-1B visa and green card rules. This idea of making it easier for foreign investors to create ...

Alabama asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to allow the state to enforce much of its strict law targeting illegal immigration, and state officials tried to clear up confusion over the crackdown among court officials and police. The state said in ...

Mexico City Mexican singer Pablo Montero criticized anti-illegal immigration laws that have been enacted in different parts of the United States and asked the White House to give the undocumented a little more help. The artist, who will appear in ...

(Updates with excerpt from states filing in third paragraph.) Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- A new Alabama immigration law empowering the police to question the status of persons otherwise detained shouldnt be blocked while the U.S. government and civil ...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's immigration chief says there has been a sharp drop in the number of Central Americans crossing Mexico to reach the U.S. Commissioner Salvador Beltran del Rio says the number of Central Americans crossing Mexico without ...

Catapult Technology, Ltd., a leading Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDVO) Information Technology (IT) contractor to the federal government, has won a contract to provide U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) with executive coaching services. ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Non-U.S. citizens imprisoned in Texas have begun seeking expedited parole even though the system to release and deport them is not in place, officials say. A law allowing early parole for foreigners as long as they are ...

MEXICO CITY Mexicos immigration chief says there has been a sharp drop in the number of Central Americans crossing Mexico to reach the U.S. Commissioner Salvador Beltran del Rio says the number of Central Americans crossing Mexico without documents has ...

A B.C. man falsely accused and subsequently acquitted of sexual assault has been repeatedly questioned and detained at the U.S. border for being a sex offender. Leonard Walker, 61, blames the RCMP for not flagging his acquittal in the criminal records ...