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The People?s Action Movement held a press conference on Thursday 6th to address two pressing issues that have dominated local public debate in recent times. The first dealt with the vitriolic and dishonest smear campaign that has become a major plank ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Congress to overhaul the country's immigration system, an issue that fires up emotions on both sides of the political divide, by 'early next year.' Speaking to Hispanic reporters at ...

Re: Here's a thought: How about erasing the Canada-U.S. border?, Barbara Yaffe's column on John Ibbitson's book, Open and Shut, May 16Here's a thought: How about erasing the Canada-U.S. border?Here's another thought: No. Over my dead body. There is a ...

I'm writing this statement to help people understand what happened to my three friends, Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, who went missing by the Iran/Iraq border. I have been close friends with Shane and Sarah for years, and recently met Josh, ...

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During a presentation about the Health Agenda for the Americas at the 'Seventh Latin American Seminar on Science and Health Journalism,' for Latin American journalists, held at the Institute of the Americas in La Jolla, CA, Dr. Maria Teresa Cerqueira, ...

Key detention reforms: * Create an office of detention policy and planning to plan and design a civil detention system. ...

Mexican immigration to the U.S. has continued to dwindle this year after being down at least 40 percent from 2005 to 2008, according to a July analysis released by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research organization. Despite the decrease, the ...

The reforms would send detainees without criminal records to less-restrictive sites that would be under more federal oversight. Pledging more oversight and accountability, the Obama administration announced plans Thursday to transform the nation's ...

In an effort to catch 'dirty' radioactive bombs and weapons of terrorists, the U.S. government has in recent years installed highly sensitive radiation sensors at all of its land, sea and air points of entry. Ten days ago they caught Don Tracey's ...

BETHLEHEM - The U.S. administration will demand that Israel and the Palestinians address the issue of borders as the first step in the Middle East peace plan, senior Palestinian officials said Thursday. Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday that ...

: President Barack Obama's administration plans to unveil a program on Thursday that will overhaul the country's controversial immigration detention policy, The New York Times reported. The newspaper, quoting an administration official, said the plan ...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration plans to place federal employees in the largest immigration detention facilities in the country to monitor detainee treatment. Under the new plan, 23 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials would be placed at ...

This President must be a glutton for punishment. I can hear it now. 'They' will add this to the list of all the horrid things he is doing to bring down America. 'Communist', 'Socialist', 'Illegal, himself', spare me. For sure, he is busy at work with all ...

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BETHLEHEM - The U.S. administration will demand that Israel and the Palestinians in the Middle East peace plan, senior Palestinian officials said Thursday. Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday that Washington will present its new plan for a ...

Pledging more oversight and accountability, the Obama administration on Thursday announced plans to overhaul the nation's immigration detention system and transform it from one reliant on a scattered network of local jails and private prisons to a ...

Islamabad, Aug 6 : The US Government must fundamentally redefine the struggle against terrorism, replacing the war on terror with a campaign combining all facets of national power to defeat the enemy, President Obama's senior counter-terrorism adviser, ...

? 'It was maybe 30 seconds and then everything got chaotic' ? Lisa Ling says sister Laura developed 'kinship' with guards Two American journalists who were detained in North Korea for months briefly crossed the border from China before their capture, ...

The US has resumed accepting applications for the H-2B foreign temporary worker visa after receiving far fewer petitions from US employers than anticipated. The congressionally mandated annual cap for H-2B visas sought by semi-skilled Indian workers is ...