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Two Cubans in a boatload of people being smuggled to the United States drowned last week when their craft capsized off the island's coast, authorities said Thursday. Nine other passengers and two smugglers managed to swim to shore. A note from Cuba's ...

HAVANA: Two Cubans in a boatload of people being smuggled to the United States drowned last week when their craft capsized off the island's coast, authorities said Thursday. Nine other passengers and two smugglers managed to swim to shore. A note from ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 Naturalists who do field work on the border between the United States and Mexico are increasingly wary of drug and people smugglers. While there are no statistics on interactions between scientists and smugglers, many researchers ...

LANSING, Mich. - Illegal immigrants are ineligible for driver's licenses, Michigan's attorney general said Thursday in an opinion that affects one of the few states that have been granting licenses to undocumented residents. Attorney General Mike Cox's ...

Uncertainty exists in the U.S. sugar market due to the opening of duty free trade with Mexico on Jan. 1 and the lack of a final version of a new farm bill with its requisite sugar program. But what is clear to the market is sugar supplies will be ample ...

(AP) Hispanic activists who viewed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as a voice of moderation on illegal immigration say they've been taken aback by the hard-line stance he's adopted as a presidential candidate. While governor, Huckabee gained favor ...

AMLITTLE ROCK, Arkansas-Hispanic activists who viewed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as a voice of moderation on illegal immigration say they have been taken aback by the hard-line stance he has adopted as a Republican presidential candidate. While ...

LOS ANGELES -- U.S. border authorities arrested just under 877,000 illegal crossers in fiscal 2007, which ended in September, down 20 percent compared with the year before, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. A drop in apprehensions is often ...

Vu Tran of Calgary, Alberta, figures he saved about US$14,000 when he recently bought a new car at a dealership in the U.S. state of Montana. After driving the 640 kilometers back to Calgary, he told family and friends about the deal and ended up coming ...

Source: American Shipper+ Shippers' NewsWire Date Posted: 12/26/2007 10:43:31 AM U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors have stopped several types of prohibited items from entering the country in recent days, according to the agency. Officers in ...