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President Obama said on Thursday that he was committed to passing a comprehensive immigration plan, but Republicans attending a bipartisan meeting at the White House expressed skepticism a deal could be reached unless Mr. Obama endorsed a guest worker ...

By Matt Collette, Globe Correspondent A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced a man who shot another man to death in Dorchester 30 years ago to the years he had already served in jail, but then ordered him to be turned over to immigration ...

WASHINGTON, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As President Barack H. Obama meets with key Congressional leaders at the White House today to discuss the pressing need for comprehensive immigration reform, the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) ...

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WASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama says his administration is committed to working with Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform. Obama discussed immigration with members from both political parties at the White House on Thursday. He says there ...

LOS ANGELESAn outspoken immigrant rights activist has been charged with election fraud for allegedly registering to vote in Los Angeles County when he did not live there. District attorney's office spokeswoman Jane Robison says Thursday that Nativo Lopez ...

Reporting from Washington -- White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said today that there is not enough support in Congress now to pass a comprehensive immigration bill providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, though he would not rule out ...

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Despite the escalation in rhetoric over the cross-border trucking debate, a lawyer for the National Chamber of Autotransporte de Carga (CANACAR), the Mexico?s trucking lobby, told Fleet Owner that a compromise is still possible to avoid further damage ...

Hours before President Obama was set to meet with members of Congress to discuss immigration reform, the president's chief of staff sought to lower expectations about when that reform might come to pass. White House chief of staff and former Rep. Rahm ...

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What issues will lawmakers likely discuss at their first White House meeting on immigration reform? Can immigration reform really happen this year and why should Congress make immigration reform a priority? And what principles should guide the ...

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LOS ANGELES, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Federal, state and local law enforcement officers arrested 27 members and associates of the 18th Street Gang early today. The arrests were the result of an 18-month investigation conducted by the Bureau of ...

The Pakistani government has discussed issues, including the deployment of U.S. troops along the border with Afghanistan, with U.S. President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor James Jones, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Abdul Basit ...

WASHINGTON -- On the eve of the White House's long-delayed bipartisan meeting today to kick off its drive to revamp U.S. immigration policy, lawmakers and interest groups weighed in on what's needed in a comprehensive bill. On Wednesday, the senator ...

A new Gallup Poll finds a substantial proportion of Americans willing to consider traveling outside the United Sttes to obtain major medical treatments and procedures, notes Sg2 Director Michael Warren. One hospital providing the kind of high-quality, ...

WASHINGTON - On the eve of the White House's long-delayed bipartisan meeting Thursday to kick off its drive to revamp U.S. immigration policy, lawmakers and interest groups weighed on what's needed in a comprehensive bill. On Wednesday, the senator ...

1 hour and 18 minutes ago SUMMARY: In teasing a White House meeting on immigration, MSNBC and Fox News again aired footage of people apparently crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, despite the fact that such footage largely distorts the issue. In ...

The need for immigration reform in the United States is beyond question. The nations broken immigration system undermines our core national values, disserves our economic and security interests, and diminishes our moral standing in the world. Reforming ...