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DETROIT - A federal immigration board has reopened the deportation case of a Kenyan who attended a U.S. college and wrote a book about his conversion to Christianity from Islam. Hussein Wario says Christians continue to be persecuted in Kenya, and he ...

Georgia, Alabama, and Utah are the first states to follow in the footsteps of Arizona, passing laws that expand the power of local police to check the immigration status of residents. Legislators who back the new laws say they're sending a message that ...

2011 Jun 07 The Boston Globe: The US government will force the state of Massachusetts to join a controversial federal program to detect and deport illegal immigrants, despite Governor Deval Patricks refusal to endorse it, a senior Homeland ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - U.S. drone aircraft struck the tribal region of South Waziristan in at least three attacks yesterday, killing at least 18 people, Pakistani officials said. A local army commander in Wana, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday rejected a challenge to California's policy of granting reduced, in-state tuition at its colleges and universities to graduates of its high schools who are illegal immigrants. The justices turned down an appeal ...

In the 10 years or so that Ive been writing about the H-1B visa program, I have steadfastly argued that despite rampant abuse of the system, the positive contributions of many, many people here on H-1B visas warrant continued support of the program. I ...

Taipei, June 7 (CNA) A newly found 1904 U.S. official document showing that the Republic of China's founding father had U.S. citizenship and was born in Honolulu, Hawaii will go on display at a special exhibition in Taipei on July 4. Taiwan's ruling ...

A new report released Tuesday found that the number of backlogged federal immigration court cases in May 2011 is edging toward 300,000, an all-time high, representing a 48% increase since the end of 2008. The caseload back-up has risen steadily since ...

WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court declined June 6 to hear an appeal of a decade-old California law that allows undocumented immigrants and others without state residency to attend college at in-state tuition rates. The action allows the policy to ...

PM PDT Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts has decided the state will not participate in a fingerprint-sharing program that is central to the Obama administration's immigration enforcement strategy, dealing a new political blow to a program that has met ...