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NEW AMERICANS IN THE GREAT LAKES STATE: Michigan's Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians are a Political and Economic Powerhouse Washington D.C. - The Immigration Policy Center has compiled research which shows that immigrants, Latinos, and Asians not only ...

Further changes are urgently needed to the way people and goods flow across the Canada-U.S. border, say business groups from both countries. Without changes, bottlenecks at key border crossings will be inescapable once the current recession comes to an ...

WASHINGTON -- North America's largest business groups on Tuesday warned the U.S. and Canadian governments that they risk a return to long and costly border delays unless changes are made in the next 18 months to speed commercial and tourist traffic ...

After working for years to achieve an honor some are born with, five Cannon Air Force Base airmen on Monday became American citizens through a ceremony held at the Landing Zone. Coming from countries like Trinidad-Tobago, the Phillipines and Ethiopia, ...

[Mark Krikorian] There's a fair, even-handed profile in the Times today of Kris Kobach, the law professor who's taken the lead role in legal advocacy for local communities seeking to implement their own immigration-related ordinances. (See his CIS ...

I In the Newspaper Roundup, The National Interest distills the days foreign-policy editorials. (July 21) President Obama is trying to do a lot right now'revive the economy, reform health care, improve our infrastructure, save the environment and raise ...

A suspected drug trafficker carrying $3.6 million and a large quantity of jewelry, including some 100 watches, was stopped by Mexican army troops in Tijuana, a border city near San Diego, California, the Defense Secretariat said. Luis Gerardo Ibarra, a ...

'Our countries share this common border and must work together to improve the flow of trade and people,' said Tom Donohue, President and CEO, of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Businesses rely on an efficient, predictable border to ensure profitability and ...

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THE EDITOR: I feel for those persons denied US visas ? those legitimate persons who wish to travel for vacation, business, family-related and health reasons. I am ashamed of those who do make it harder for the rest of us ? those who commit crimes, or ...

Stranded in Nogales, Sonora, many unsure which way to turn The Arizona Republic NOGALES, Sonora - Deportees arrive here each day by the hundreds, desperate and destitute, escorted off buses by U.S. immigration agents and marched across the border into ...

With still four months to go before the federal takeover of the local immigration system, the Russian market is already beginning to show a notable decline in arrivals since June, based on the latest Marianas Visitors Authority data. At the same time, ...

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-- Certificates of Recognition were sent to 408 companies by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County for being 'good corporate citizens' for the year 2008. These companies were consistent in their compliance with all their industrial wastewater ...

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The Obama administration was to resume long-stalled immigration talks with Cuba Tuesday, but the meeting is unlikely to be the first step in a broader US-Cuba dialogue. Tuesday's meeting, scheduled for United Nations headquarters in New York, would be ...

Previous Issues Comment RFEs And Hypocrisy Among The Antis In an article about the shooting tragedy in Binghamton, New York, argues that the tragedy should not lead to sweeping generalizations. The posting says: 'Just as immigration policy should not be ...

All of this has proven to be a bureaucratic quagmire. Every few years since 1990, Congress has had to step in to change the annual numerical cap, which was raised to 115,000, raised again to 195,000, then lowered to 65,000. The rules have been changed to ...

The Department of Homeland Security is changing the way it tackles illegal immigration, in many cases remaking or rescinding Bush administration policies. The changes put heavier emphasis on employers, including more investigations of hiring records and ...