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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 ...

THE notorious slave trade and slavery ended several centuries ago, but we are beginning to witness digitalised modern slave trade and slavery with the Visa Lottery introduced by the United States of America (USA) more than 10 years ago. Monsignor Sunday ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The October 15 deadline for local law enforcement agencies to sign the new 287(g) agreements has been reached. DHS is expected to announce that nearly all the local partners have agreed to continue in the ...

By Patrick Rucker MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican workers in the United States have lost jobs and faced a crackdown on illegal immigration but are not heading home in droves despite the worst recession in decades, officials and researchers say. There is ...

U.S. Border Patrol agents say several groups of illegal aliens from China have been arrested in southern Arizona in recent days. The Border Patrol says it's part of a trend that has seen increasing numbers of Chinese trying to sneak into the U.S. from ...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton announced new initiatives October 6 aimed at enhancing the security and efficiency of ICEs nationwide ...

As the Canadian dollar approaches parity with the U.S. greenback, motels, restaurants and retail stores in the states are expecting a flood of Canuck shoppers to take advantage of the exchange rate. The city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, located less ...

New measure aims to keep families together LGBT rights supporters on Capitol Hill are looking to an Illinois congressman for inclusion in his upcoming immigration reform bill that's expected to appeal to more liberal members of the U.S. House. Rep. Luis ...

Comments KEY WEST, Fla., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. Coast Guard crew that discovered four migrants in a boat near Key West, Fla., sent them back to Cuba, Coast Guard officials said. The migrants, along with a suspected smuggler, were traveling in a 19-foot ...

The story is numbingly familiar: 263,000 jobs lost in September, unemployment at a 26-year high (9.8%), 7.2 million jobs lost since the recession began at the end of 2007. Dismal, yes, but September?s employment numbers were not catastrophic, and some ...

TULTITLAN, Mexico Gathered below an overpass on Independence Avenue, dressed in the multiple layers typical of homeless travelers, the migrants watched for the next northbound freight train through Tultitlan. Many of them, mostly young men and boys, ...

A controversial federal program that deputizes state and local law enforcement agents to catch illegal immigrants is expanding under the Obama administration, despite changes announced this summer intended to curb alleged racial profiling and other ...

WASHINGTON The nation's Catholic bishops have threatened to pull their support for health care reform unless their concerns about abortion and access for immigrants are addressed by lawmakers. FAITH & REASON: Catholic bishops aim for pastoral way to say ...

(PR Web Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) INSZoom, Inc., the leading Global Immigration and Mobility Software Solutions Company, has announced the launch of MigrantPlanet.com, a destination portal for the global immigration markets. San Ramon, CA (PRWEB) ...

Some state and local police are having second thoughts about working with the federal government to enforce immigration laws. Under what's known as the 287(g) program, agencies sign a voluntary agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and ...

ogram FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics , has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract by U.S. Department of Homeland Security's ...

Reporting from Tultitlan, Mexico - Gathered below an overpass on Independence Avenue, dressed in the multiple layers typical of homeless travelers, the migrants watched for the next northbound freight train through Tultitlan. Many of them, mostly young ...

Some state and local police are having second thoughts about working with the federal government to enforce immigration laws. Under what's known as the 287(g) program, agencies sign a voluntary agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and ...

A new comparison of two of the regions largest immigrant groups suggests that Brazilians are more likely to be uninsured and to suffer high levels of stress than immigrants from the Dominican Republic. Brazilians were also far more likely to be here ...

Orlando Boquete, a Mariel refugee erroneously convicted of sexual assault and threatened with deportation to Cuba, is now trying to become a permanent U.S. resident, which would make him eligible for citizenship. A Miami attorney who represents Boquete, ...