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NEW DELHI: India is likely to ask the United States to raise the cap on visas for skilled workers at the bilateral trade forum meeting to be held in New Delhi later this month, a government official told ET. India may also push for a special mechanism ...

NEW DELHI: India is likely to ask the United States to raise the cap on visas for skilled workers at the bilateral trade forum meeting to be held in New Delhi later this month, a government official told ET. India may also push for a special mechanism ...

When the Obama administration took control of government nine months ago, the Department of Homeland Security stood out as the agency most in need of repair. Of the many problems DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano inherited, many related to our failed ...

Its been a capricious month for awards. First there were the Nobels, with the peace prize going to President Obama for work as yet undone and the literature prize to Herta Mller for works most people havent read. Then last Wednesday came the ...

By Justin Anthony Monarez (AXcess News) Washington - A 2-year-old U.S.-born boy was deprived of his rights when his undocumented parents were deported. At that age, he had no choice but to go with them. 'When they deported my parents, I was also ...

By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on und migrants is conducting an immigration and crime sweep around Phoenix, less than a day after federal authorities curbed his powers to make immigration arrests. ...

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BOSTON --Immigrant and women's rights advocates in Massachusetts plan to take on the issue of domestic violence among immigrants. The 'Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence' conference is scheduled for Tuesday at Simmons College in Boston. Panels and ...

Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Prize after having been unanimously chosen by the members of the Prize Committee. He was selected from among 205 candidates, of whom I only know the Jordanian Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad. The prince has been conducting ...

Despite continuing criticism about the program, authorities announced Friday that 67 local and state law enforcement agencies across the country would continue enforcing immigration law under special agreements with the federal government, but that they ...

Oct. 17--Three Mexican brothers were sentenced to more than three years in federal prison Friday for keeping 17 smuggled illegal immigrants -- shoeless and in only their underwear, sometimes at gunpoint -- in a Houston stash house waiting for family to ...

(CNSNews.com) - Actress Eva Longoria Parker told CNSNews.com that it is past time for Congress to ?take on? the issue of illegal immigration and that the topic should not be used to scuttle health care reform. ?I think there needs to be a ...

Despite continuing criticism about the program, authorities announced Friday that 67 local and state law enforcement agencies across the country would continue enforcing immigration law under special agreements with the federal government, but that they ...

PHOENIX Addressing one of the most contentious immigration policies in recent years, the Obama administration unveiled changes Friday in a program that allows state and local police officers enforce federal immigration law. As promised in July, the ...

Immigrant advocacy groups on Friday assailed a Department of Homeland Security decision to continue deputizing state and local law enforcement agents to catch illegal immigrants, saying the department's new rules aimed at curbing racial profiling by ...

PHOENIX Addressing one of the most contentious immigration policies in recent years, the Obama administration unveiled changes Friday in a program that allows state and local police officers enforce federal immigration law. As promised in July, the ...

An immigration lawyer and two associates have been charged with obtaining fraudulent work visas for immigrants in a scheme that authorities suspect involved laundering of money by purchasing cemetery plots.'Cemetery plots are certainly a novel way to ...

LOS ANGELES -- A Southern California immigrant rights group has asked Target stores to stop selling an 'illegal alien' Halloween costume it says is offensive to immigrants. The costume, posted on Target's web site, features the mask of an alien with a ...

An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on people who are in the country illegally launched a crime and immigration sweep in northwestern metro Phoenix on Friday, a half day after officials in Washington limited his powers to make federal immigration ...

Two police officers were legally justified when they fatally shot a 26-year-old Sudanese immigrant in an incident that sparked anger and unrest in the Sudanese community in Maine's largest city, the state's top prosecutor ruled Friday. Portland Officers ...