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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 interpreted as a sign ...

OROVILLE, Wash. - Astride sturdy mustangs named Okanogan and Spurs, US Border Patrol agents Darrel Williams and Justin Hefker ride quietly along a ridgeline above the Similkameen River valley. The mustangs are among a dozen the Border Patrol's Spokane ...

When Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., campaigns in Iowa this week, sooner or later, he will surely be asked at a town hall event about one issue that has bedeviled him for months: illegal immigration. It comes up at almost every stop, no matter what state he's ...

This overview of the Ellis Island complex, including ferry and hospital buildings, was taken in 2001. The In the distance, the World Trade Center was still standingIn New York Harbor lies Ellis Island, which was once an immigration center so prominent ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers said on Wednesday that the United States could make financial aid to Egypt conditional on Cairo doing more to prevent smuggling of arms into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The two U.S. lawmakers -- Republican ...

JERUSALEM, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers said on Wednesday that the United States could make financial aid to Egypt conditional on Cairo doing more to prevent smuggling of arms into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The two U.S. lawmakers -- ...

OROVILLE, Wash. - Astride sturdy mustangs named Okanogan and Spurs, US Border Patrol agents Darrel Williams and Justin Hefker ride quietly along a ridgeline above the Similkameen River valley. The mustangs are among a dozen the Border Patrol's Spokane ...

AMHANOI, Vietnam-Vietnam has granted citizenship to a foreign soccer player for the first time, making it possible for the Brazilian-born goalkeeper to play for the national team, officials said Wednesday. President Nguyen Minh Triet signed a decision ...

A law making it easier for children adopted abroad to become Canadian citizens went into effect Sunday, according to a statement on Citizenship and Immigration Canada's website. Parents previously had to apply to sponsor such adopted child to come to ...

.(immigrants) will bring with them the principles of governments they leave, or if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbridled licentiousness, passing, as usual, from one extreme to the other. It would be a miracle were they to stop ...