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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 ...

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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 ...

With harvest in full swing across the West, a heavy cloud hangs over the fields: the uncertainty that comes with an intensified federal crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants When Tom Morton, the new chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

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OTTAWA (AFP) - A lesbian who deserted the US military has requested asylum in Canada, claiming she faced harassment and death threats from fellow soldiers over her sexual orientation, media said Wednesday. Private Bethany Smith, 21, claimed she had asked ...

After Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) accused President Obama of lying for stating that health care reform "would not apply to those who are here illegally," media have cited a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, highlighted by House Minority Leader ...

WASHINGTON --Rep. Joe Wilson is wrong. In his speech to Congress Wednesday, President Barack Obama said the changes to health care that he's proposing 'would not apply to those who are here illegally.' That prompted Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, ...

Immigration is the lifeblood of the U.S., but also a thorny problem of late...and one that some say is aggravated by abuse of the H1-B visiting skilled worker visa. Is it time to consider a new system, one that rewards entrepreneurs instead? The idea ...

The U.S and Mexico, working through the United States-Mexico High-Level Consultative Commission on Telecommunications (HLCC), have signed a bilateral telecommunications agreement to install and operate a new cross border communications network for public ...

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Despite Economic Hurdles Immigrants Strive to Become U.S. Citizens, Expand Their Political Voice Following National Citizenship Day on Sep. 17, Groups Will Hold 25 workshops in AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, IL, KY, MA, NC, TX and VA WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 ...

The trial over a US$1 million plot to murder media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and former Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming continued yesterday in Shenzhen, with a key defendant trying to prove his US citizenship so as not to be tried as a ...

Born in Britain in 1992, Simone Davis got off to a rough start in life. Her biological mother abandoned her as a baby, and her father was too immature to care for her. At 3, Simone was adopted by her paternal grandmother, Jean Davis, who married an ...

CAIRO ? Egypt has completed the installation of U.S. systems to detect the construction of smuggling tunnels along the border of the Gaza Strip. Egyptian security sources said the installation was conducted by the Egyptian military and Interior ...

LYNN, Mass. --Parents of three Lynn teenagers barred from starting a new school year in public school after being charged with severely beating a Guatemalan immigrant have appealed the school suspensions. The appeals were made Wednesday to Lynn ...

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Sept. 10, 2009) - Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney today announced seven full-time appointments and one designation to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). Edward E. Aronoff, ...

By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief Republican senators listen as President Barack Obama delivers a speech on healthcare to a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, Sept., 9, 009 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)(CNS.com) - In his ...

An 80% increase in indictment counts Back in February, we reported that the U.S. government was going after a firm for violations in the H-1B visa program. At that time, Vision Systems Group was tagged with a 10-count indictment. Apparently, that has ...