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Jane Bagley Lehman Awards for Excellence in Public Advocacy Honor Activists Dedicated to Advancing Immigration Reform With Grants Totaling $22,500 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tides (www.tides.org) has awarded a total of $22,500 to ...

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the US has amended its policy to seize any electronic device brought into the country, in a bid to counter criticisms that the policy infringes civil liberties. The DHS conducts border searches of computers ...

If experience is the best teacher, then Denver immigration lawyer Ravi Kanwal certainly knew his stuff when it came to representing illegal aliens. You see, Kanwal was himself in the United States unlawfully. Problem is, he never told anyone about his ...

NEW DELHI: The US government has reportedly filed a new expanded indictment against an IT services company, Visions System, for fraudulently using H-1B visas. According to a report in Computerworld, the US government alleges that the New Jersey-based IT ...

Tearful 88-year-old Denies Shooting Jews as Member of Nazi-Sponsored Police Force During WWII ...

Turkey hopes to open its border with USA by the end of the year under a protocol to establish diplomatic ties, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday. The two countries, which have no diplomatic ties and a history of animosity stemming ...

A new policy gives US immigration officials the right to search travellers' electronic devices at well. The policy applies to officials in the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Customs and Border Protection services. It gives them the right, ...

Thousands of legal immigrants facing steep cuts in state-subsidized health care will keep core medical services such as routine doctor visits and hospital treatment under a plan unveiled yesterday by Governor Deval Patrick. The initiative, which also ...

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Permanent residents who have had green cards for less than five years will lose dental and hospice care. ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A Toronto truck driver was arrested at the U.S. border on Monday for allegedly transporting 160 kilograms of marijuana in a shipment of fire-starter wood, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Gurmit Singh, 40, an Indian ...

By Natalie Ornell Guest speaker Karen Narasaki, President and Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) in Washington, D.C. and Vice Chair of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, spoke in front of a crowded community forum at ...

Such searches no different than inspecting briefcases or backpacks, DHS office says Top Stories Computerworld - Travelers arriving at U.S. borders may soon be confronted with their laptops, PDAs, and other digital devices being searched, copied and even ...

With homeland security being the mantra, more flexibility was granted to border agents, giving them the ability to search your laptop and examine the contents of your laptop, including its hard drive (or solid state SSD drives). However, a recent measure ...

The U.S. government filed a new, expanded indictment last week against a New Jersey IT services firm it alleges fraudulently used H-1B visas through a scheme that delivered it millions of dollars in gains. If federal prosecutors win their case against ...

Children of immigrants account for about one-quarter of children in the nation under age 5, according to a report on student demographics. ...

Just south of the U.S. Mexican Border, a small town called Playa Bagdad has become a hotbed for the worldwide illegal shark fishing industry, according to the Texas Observer. Demand is rising for shark-fin soup, which can sell for $100 a bowl, and the ...

NEW YORK (JTA) -- The Justice Department is seeking to deport a Michigan resident for collaborating with the Nazis. In a news release Monday, the department said that John Kalymon, of Troy, committed violent acts against Jews during World War II as a ...