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By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff Dozens of immigrants pulled over Wednesday in Foxborough during a federal search for fugitives from deportation were on their way to Gillette Stadium to shovel snow before this weekend's playoff game, Guatemala's consul in ...

Washington (CNN) -- Legalization of the more than 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States would raise wages, increase consumption, create jobs and generate more tax revenue, two policy institutes say in a joint report Thursday. The report ...

by WebMemo #2746 In 2009, 90 counties across the country became participants in the Secure Communities program. This program provides a modern means for state and local law enforcement to share information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ...

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the U.S.slowly pulls free froma deep recession, agroundbreaking new study concludes that comprehensive immigration reformwould provide just the type of boostour economy needs. Today, the Center ...

What's a sure-fire way to inject the struggling U.S. economy with $1.5 trillion, create jobs, increase wages and tax revenues? Three words: comprehensive immigration reform. At least that's the premise of a new study released today by the Center... ...

Dow Jones Newswires WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration laws would increase the country's gross domestic product by $1.5 trillion over a decade, a new report from the Center for American Progress concluded Thursday. ...

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The images tend to be memorable and camera-friendly federal agents stage a well-publicized bust on a manufacturing or meat-packing plant and cart off hundreds of undocumented workers. It happened in May 2008, when the U.S. Department of Justice and ...

Creating a pathway to legal status for an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants would benefit the U.S. economy and boost wages for all workers, according to a new report by Ral Hinojosa-Ojeda, UCLA associate professor of Chicano and Chicana ...

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Zenit News Agency The bishops' conference announced today the beginning of a postcard campaign and two Web sites to help build momentum in the effort to bring reform to immigration laws this year. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Zenit.org) - The U.S. bishops are ...

Houston-area immigration lawyer Annie Banerjee provides some timely advice for employers caught in the FDNS crossfire. Raids conducted by the U.S. office of Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) targets those businesses employing immigrants ...

Officials from the Transport Security Administration discovered Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's name on the Customs and Border Protection database after he boarded his Northwest flight in Amsterdam and were waiting to question him upon landing in Detroit, ...

It wasn't supposed to be like this. The fear, the persecution, the prejudice, the families divided that had been the reality of immigrants - legal or not - under , were not what candidate Barack Obama promised. Fair immigration reform, a humane way of ...

BY BABURAM KHAREL IN KATHMANDU A SCANDAL in Nepal over the high-quality forging of United States visas has thrown the spotlight on a recent returnee from Singapore - who is said to be the mastermind behind the racket. Earlier this week, in what was ...

Mexico City, Jan 7 (IANS/EFE) Mexico has expressed 'profound concern' over the death of its und migrant who was shot by a US Border Patrol agent and said it will closely monitor the investigation into the incident. The Mexican foreign ministry said ...

The US made new threats about the condemnation and seizure of Lipan Apache lands in Texas for the US/Mexico border wall, as the abuses of Indigenous Peoples in the borderzone continues unabated. President Obama continues the genocidal borderland policies ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., JAN. 6, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The U.S. bishops are seeking legislation to reform immigration policy in 2010, saying migration should be a choice, not a necessity.The bishops' conference announced today the beginning of a postcard campaign ...

Increases the bookmark twitter facebook digg Google Windowslive Delicious buzz friendfeed Linkedin diigo reddit stumbleupon Mexico was 'deeply concerned' about Monday's fatal shooting of a Mexican citizen near its border with the U.S. state of Arizona, ...