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Tanveer Ahmad with Shanise Farrar, his American wife, at Six Flags Great Adventure. More Photos > When the 43-year-old man died in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2005, the very fact seemed to fall into a black hole. Although a fellow inmate scrawled a ...

(CNA) Taipei, July 5 (CNA) An American passport holder of Chinese descent has been slapped with a US$500 fine for cursing an immigration officer at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport late last month, government sources said Sunday. The ...

The U.S. Border Patrol plans to use ground-penetrating radar technology to spot illegal transborder tunnels BORDER PATROL: New radar technology may soon help agents find illicit underground tunnels. ISTOCKPHOTO/MIKADX Underground tunnels crisscross the ...

AMA Republican congressman -- the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Immigration -- thinks his staunch opposition to amnesty is the reason President Barack Obama didn't invite him to a recent White House summit on immigration. Last week, ...

US Vice President Joe Biden is in Iraq for some special independence day events, notably the taking the oath of allegiance for over 200 members of the armed forces at a Naturalisation ceremony. The newly-minted Americans were mostly Mexican, Phillipino, ...

The US troops Thursday launched a major offensive against the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. US forced Pakistan to seal the border and capture escaping Taliban militia into Pakistan. The Pakistan Army has already deployed additional ...

By Attorneys Robert L. Reeves and Joseph I. Elias The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued a policy memorandum binding to its officers regarding unlawful presence. The memorandum is supposed to merely consolidate and ...

ON THE AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER -- Lt. Gabe Lamois's mission sounded simple: Hike down the hill to the Pakistani Frontier Corps' border post, inform the commander there that U.S. and Afghan troops were going to be moving through the area at 3 a.m., ...

Mexico City - Mexican authorities arrested eight people for kidnapping 51 illegal Central American migrants, the state government said Friday in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas. The arrests took place in Palenque, in Chiapas, near the border to ...

American Apparel received notice from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that the employment eligibility of 200 of its workers could not be verified, according to a statement released by the publicly traded manufacturer. In addition, the statement ...

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SAN DIEGO -- President Obama recently reignited the immigration debate when he told reporters that congressional leaders of both parties were ready to 'actively get something done and not put it off until a year, two years, three years, five years from ...

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NOGALES, Arizona - A resident walking near the rusted boundary fence in this Arizona border city last month reported suspicious knocking coming from an abandoned warehouse to the Border Patrol. The agents found two men constructing the exit for a ...

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer looks toward a car coming toward at the border crossing between the U.S. and Canada, in Blaine, Wash. Greater emphasis on security has changed the border-crossing experience Email Please enter a valid e-mail ...

Islamabad, July 4 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has stressed on the need of fencing the country's border with Afghanistan on the lines of the US and Mexico border wall to stop terrorist infiltration and drug trafficking. Talking to US ...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., July 4 /PRNewswire/ -- In a stirring celebration of citizenship, more than 1,000 immigrants gathered on Main Street, U.S.A. early Friday to be 'sworn in' as American citizens. To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: ...

By Sajjad Malik ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday said the Pak-Afghan border should be barricaded to block illegal crossings in the same way a wall separates Mexico from the United States. 'A similar pattern of fencing could be ...

The NEXUS card is becoming a growing trend as a quicker way to cross the U.S. and Canadian borders. In Calgary, the card is proving so popular the enrollment centre has had to open seven days a week to meet demand. NEXUS applicant, Harold Pereverseff, ...

By Julia Preston Immigration authorities had bad news this week for American Apparel, the T-shirt maker based in downtown Los Angeles: About 1,800 of its employees appeared to be illegal immigrants not authorized to work in the United States. But in ...