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CAIRO: An American tourist had her laptop shot by border guards as she entered Israel via Taba two weeks ago. Lily Sussman, 21, who had been residing in Cairo for some time, was about to vacation in Israel and while at the Taba border crossing, after two ...

Lodi, CA Pittsburgh, PA: Obama's Choice-Immigration Moratorium Or Defeat In 2012 December 04, 2009 View From Lodi, CA Pittsburgh, PA: Obama's Choice-Immigration Moratorium Or Defeat In 2012 By If I were President Barack Obama's advisor, I would tell him ...

For Peter Watts, life can be stranger than science fiction. Watts who has written six such books was on his way back to Toronto last Tuesday after helping a friend move to the U.S. Before crossing the Blue Water Bridge into Sarnia, American ...

at 4:59 PM Comments (0) Print view Share U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a Canadian science fiction writer after he became aggressive and refused to comply during an inspection, a government official said Saturday. Related U.S. ...

PORT HURON, Mich. - Police arrested a Canadian science fiction writer after he became aggressive and refused to comply during an inspection by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, a government official said Saturday. Peter Watts of Toronto was ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal agents in California arrested 280 foreigners with criminal records, most for serious offenses, in their largest such crackdown to date, U.S. immigration officials said on Friday. More than 100 of those rounded up in a ...

HIGHLAND PARK -- Under an unusual agreement between the pastor of Reformed Church of Highland Park and immigration officials, , a report in the New York Times said. The events come after months of activism from the congregation, especially after Harry ...

Support N.Beltov -rouser-machine Member: 5140 Joined: May 25 2003 December 11, 2009 - 4:42pm Canadian science fiction writer, Dr. Peter Watts, has been beaten and assaulted by US border guards. He has been charged with assault (by his assailants) and ...

Or he like a whole lot of other Canadians had a whole chip on his shoulder and started mouthing off to the border guard, which is just generally a bad idea regardless of who you are. // Seattle native, 99 out of 100 Canadians has a chip on their shoulder ...

Anti-war activist and Olympic critic Marla Renn says she was given a hard time by both U.S. and Canadian border guards yesterday (December 10). Renn was searched and questioned by American officials, and later denied entry. At the Canadian side, she was ...

Father Ricardo Elford of Tucson, along with attorney Isabel Garcia, founded a weekly vigil 497 weeks ago, to pray for those who have perished crossing from Mexico into the United States. Ricardo sent me a copy of the latest vigil liturgy. It opens thus: ...

Federal agents arrested almost 300 people in California Thursday, as part of a new focus on targeting illegal immigrants with criminal records. Most of those arrested had been convicted of serious or violent crimes, officials said. The US Immigration and ...

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal agents in California arrested 280 foreigners with criminal records, most for serious offenses, in their largest such crackdown to date, U.S. immigration officials said on Friday. More than 100 of those rounded up in a ...

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Federal agents say the three-day sweep represents a new resolve to zero in on serious criminals who are in the country illegally. Member ID orE-Mail Address: Password: Remember me on this computer. ...

Canadian science-fiction author and Toronto native Dr. Peter Watts was reportedly beaten,pepper-sprayed and imprisoned at a US-Canada border crossing in Michigan. According to boingboing.net, where the writer has been known to contribute, Watts was ...

While the Obama administration's approach to boosting employment for Americans in the face of the highest unemployment in decades remains tethered to magical thinking and slippery accounting tactics designed to inflate the number of actual jobs created ...

A senior State Department official says the U.S. expects that Pakistani authorities will deport five young Americans they have detained over alleged terrorist links. The official said Friday that it is not yet clear whether the five men may have broken ...

-- According to Visible Measures, nine of the ten top Internet videos of 2009 were music videos. The trailer for Twilight Saga: New Moon was the #1 video. At #2 was Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' and at #3 was Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face.' At least from a traffic ...