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National Poll Finds Most Americans Believe Immigration Adversely Affects the Quality and Cost of Healthcare WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Council for Immigration Reform (ANCIR) national poll on immigration and its impact on ...

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OTTAWA -- A lesbian soldier who deserted the U.S. military is seeking refugee status in Canada, claiming she was repeatedly harassed and threatened with death, then denied an honorable discharge because her superiors wanted to send her to Afghanistan. ...

Im not sure if a fatwa attributed to Sheikh Youssef al Qaradawi was correct or not, but we have become used to politicised religious fatwas anyway as part of political jurisprudence shrouded in religion, opined Abdul Rahman al Rashed, the general manager ...

(The Miami Herald - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A former Pedro Pan refugee from Cuba who has accused the leader of the Catholic relocation program, the late Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh, of sexually abusing him took his legal case ...

London, Sep.14 : The primary focus of America's war strategy in Afghanistan could shift towards the eastern provinces bordering Pakistan and away from the south of the country, senior military officials have said. They believe the Afghan Taliban's ...

A Lubbock woman along with several other members of the Patriot?s Heart Media Network have filed a petition for the convening of a federal grand jury to investigate President Obama with the claim he does not fit the criteria necessary to be president ...

CAMBRIDGE, UK--(Business Wire)-- Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy today announced that its Blighter radar is helping to detect and track illegal immigrants trying to enter the USA across the hills on the ...

San Salvador - Several Salvadorean sectors rejected on Friday the US decision to grant political asylum to former Deputy Roberto Carlos Silva, accused of money laundry and of killing three legislators of the Central American Parliament and their driver. ...

Sept. 14, 2009, 12 a.m. In 1942, at the height of World War II, thousands of Mexican men crossed the border into the United States to maintain the fields while American men were deployed to fight overseas. LOG IN NOT A SUBSCRIBER Username Password Forget ...

When federal agents descended on six meatpacking plants owned by Swift & Co. in December 2006, they rounded up nearly 1,300 suspected illegal immigrants that made up about 10% of the labor force at the plants. But the raids by Immigration and Customs ...

Fifteen undocumented Cubans and one alleged Cuban smuggler were arrested in Cancn, Mexico, during a two-hour raid by Mexican Army troops on Sunday. The alleged smuggler, identified as Tristn Barragn, had kept the illegal migrants in a safe house ...

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Washington: The White House strengthened its stand against healthcare coverage for illegal immigrants on Friday, and a pivotal Senate committee looked ready to follow its lead. The developments reflected a renewed focus on the issue in the days since a ...

Source ::: AFP W WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday welcomed a deal between Croatia and Slovenia aimed at resolving a border row and at lifting a block on Croatian talks to join the European Union. 'The United States welcomes today's agreement ...

Key members of the Senate Finance Committee, who are expected to play a pivotal role in the final struggle over revamping healthcare, on Friday sought to extinguish the latest brush fire a furor over possible benefits for illegal immigrants. Committee ...

(STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- (begin text) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Office of the Spokesman, September 2, 2009 MEDIA NOTE United States and Mexico Announce Agreement for Cross Border Public Security Communications Network ...

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In late 2007, the application cost increased from $330 to $595, plus an $80 fee for computerized fingerprinting. Partly in anticipation of the price increase, 1.38 million people filed applications in 2007, creating a backlog that nearly tripled the ...