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The BESTs mission is clear to collaboratively identify and disrupt transnational criminal organizations exploiting our shared border, said Brian M. Moskowitz, special agent in charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Michigan and Ohio. ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday made a plea for strengthening global efforts to create a better future for immigrants. He told the third U.N.-supported Global Forum on Migration and Development in Athens that immigrants were hurt by the ...

The proposal by Louisiana Republican was aimed at excluding immigrants from the population totals that are used to figure the number of congressional representatives for each state. Critics said Vitter's plan would discourage immigrants from responding ...

By The Canadian Press DETROIT - Authorities say a man was caught smuggling more than 40 kilograms of Ecstasy across the Michigan-Ontario border, then co-operated with agents to pinch the men waiting for the delivery. The man was caught Tuesday afternoon ...

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The United States races into the 21st century like a seasick captain at the helm of a battleship plowing into Hurricane Katrina. The more he vomits, the bigger the mess to clean up. The further he heads into the 50 foot waves, the sooner he could be ...

The Department of Homeland Security is gagging local law enforcement agencies around the country to protect the privacy of illegal aliens. This sort of heavy-handed micromanagement should come as no surprise to those familiar with the decades-long, ...

DENVER, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two innovative child welfare toolkits -- A Social Worker's Tool Kit for Working With Immigrant Families -- A Child Welfare Flowchart (August 2009) and A Social Worker's Tool Kit for Working with Immigrant ...

US authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound contraband. Nearly 600 illegal weapons were seized along the border by US Immigration ...

The Obama operatives at the Department of Homeland Security have pared back one of the most successful immigration-enforcement programs, known as 287(g). DHSs Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has stripped the state and local law enforcement ...

The Supreme Court has asked the Obama administration to give an official opinion on whether Arizona has the right to punish companies that hire undocumented workers. At issue is the broader question of whether individual local authorities can tackle ...

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Weak Verification and Loosening of Welfare Reform Rules Alter Longstanding System of Enforcement and Incentives WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Current versions of both the House and Senate health care reform bills contain inadequate ...

The Netherlands Antilles has launched an amnesty program that will provide residence and working papers for thousands of illegal immigrants. Hundreds of people lined up outside an immigration office in St. Maarten on Wednesday, the third day of the ...

(YouTube)A video posted on the internet shows Mohawk Warriors using a backhoe to dig up and cart away a century-old border marker between Canada and the U.S. on the Akwesasne reserve near Cornwall, Ont. The Warriors are members of a militant faction ...

During a signing ceremony for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, President Barack Obama announced Friday that the federal government would end its ban on travel and immigration to the U.S. by people who are HIV-positive, as first reported ...

U.S. Border Patrol agents seized more than $510,000 in marijuana and arrested one man accused of trying to smuggle the drugs into the country, official said. Juan Carlos Gutierrez Marie, 20, was arrested Sunday morning near the Rio Grande levee, ...

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During a signing ceremony for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, President Barack Obama announced Friday that the federal government would end its ban on travel and immigration to the U.S. by people who are HIV-positive, as first reported ...

During a signing ceremony for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, President Barack Obama announced Friday that the federal government would end its ban on travel and immigration to the U.S. by people who are HIV-positive, as first reported ...