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By Valeria Fernndez Walt Staton, a volunteer with No More Deaths, was convicted for 'knowingly littering' a national refuge by leaving water bottles for border crossers. Credit:Nick Oza/IPS ARIVACA, Arizona, Jun 19 (IPS) - Humanitarian aid groups trying ...

At a glance, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's 2008 campaign promises for immigration reform were to: Create Secure Borders Obama wants to preserve the integrity of our borders. He supports additional personnel, infrastructure and ...

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Washington - US President Barack Obama promised Friday to push for a comprehensive reform of US immigration laws, reviving another divisive issue that has confounded past administrations. Speaking at a prayer breakfast before leaders of the Hispanic ...

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Reporting from Washington -- In an effort to plug a hole in U.S.-Mexico drug enforcement, the U.S. departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced an agreement Thursday that will give designated immigration agents expanded powers to pursue drug ...

Should illegal immigrants who have been working and living in the U.S. and paying U.S. taxes for at least three years be offered a path to U.S. citizenship? Why or why not? If yes, with what conditions? (i.e. paying a fine, wait two more years, pass a ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. U.S. border officials are testing an unmanned surveillance aircraft to judge whether the drones can be used more widely along the U.S.-Canadian border, including at a crossing where cigarette and drug smuggling are a continuing problem. ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAN ANTONIOCardinal Francis George of Chicago called on President Barack Obama and Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform before the end of 2009, He called for this action June 18, at the Spring meeting of the United ...

Cardinal Francis George Cardinal Francis George of Chicago has called on President Barack Obama and Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform before the end of 2009. He appealed for this action on 18 June, at the Spring meeting of the United ...

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WASHINGTON ' The Obama administration is strengthening efforts to intercept and to break up drug rings smuggling narcotics across the Canada-U.S. border under an agreement announced Thursday that will see a sharp increase in the number of immigration and ...

NAY PYI TAW, 17 June -According to the Malichun Daily issued on 16 June 2009 in Thailand, it is learnt that a group comprising US diplomats based in Thailand, on the morning of 15 June, visited Mae La refugee camp in Tha Song Yang District, Tak Province ...

'Inside Government' Also to Feature 'Nixonland' Author WASHINGTON, June 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A recent swine flu outbreak at the Krome Service Processing Center in Miami, Fla. will be addressed this week on AFGE's 'Inside Government' radio show. ...

European leaders are in Brussels for two days of talks on such thorny issues as ways to better regulate the financial markets and ways to coax Irish voters to back a set of ambitious European reforms. The European Union summit is the last under the rocky ...

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New U.S. expatriation rules, introduced one year ago, governing U.S. citizens or long-time green card holders who wish to renounce their American citizenship are serving as a disincentive for many to make the decision to give up their citizenship.'In ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. --U.S. border officials are testing an unmanned surveillance aircraft to judge whether the drones can be used more widely along the U.S.-Canadian border, including at a crossing where cigarette and drug smuggling are a continuing problem. ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- U.S. border officials are testing an unmanned surveillance aircraft to judge whether the drones can be used more widely along the U.S.-Canadian border, including at a crossing where cigarette and drug smuggling are a continuing ...

Ronald Soza, of Margate, went on a hunger strike in January in hopes that it would bring home his mother -- an illegal immigrant who was deported to Nicaragua last year. On Wednesday he wished for the same thing, this time as he cut his 10th birthday ...