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WASHINGTON - Federal immigration agents will get expanded powers to help fight Mexican drug cartels, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday. Holder said an announcement is imminent on a new agreement between the Justice Department and the Department ...

By John R. Ellement, Globe staff The Obama administration has changed course and will now allow same sex couples to use their spouse's surname when they apply for passports with the US State Department, a gay activist group said in Boston today. A gay ...

WASHINGTON, US - The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American US president, the financial crisis and immigration have formed a lethal cocktail leading to a spike in hate crimes, rights leaders warned Tuesday. 'This toxic combination of the ...

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff The Obama administration has changed course and will now allow same-sex couples to use their spouse's surname when they apply for passports with the US State Department, a gay activist group said today in Boston. A gay ...

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BROWNSVILLE Apprehensions of illegal immigrants dropped dramatically in 2008, continuing a three-year decline attributed to the increase in Border Patrol surveillance and the poor U.S. economy, the Department of Homeland Securitys Office of Immigration ...

KANSAS CITY, Missouri -- Millions of files containing detailed information about U.S. immigrants - including their spouses' names, as well as personal photographs and letters - will soon become available to the public through a federal facility in ...

U.S. civil rights leaders said yesterday that an increase in hate crimes committed in recent years against Hispanics and people perceived to be immigrants 'correlates closely' to the nation's increasingly contentious debate over immigration. Hate crimes ...

Network of Eritreans for Constitutional Governance (NECG) US Revokes Citizenship of Eritrea tyrants top Right-hand Men US Citizenship revoked: Eritrea tyrant Afewarki's right-hand men, Yemane GhebreAb (aka Monkey)(l), ex-health affairs right-hand man ...

WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has launched its most irresponsible attack to date against the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The SPLC claims that Shawna Forde, the alleged killer ...

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More Korean students in the United States and Korean Americans are enlisting in the U.S. Armed Forces via the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest recruitment program. Questions are pouring onto the billboards of Korean community Web sites in ...

U.S. civil rights leaders today said an increase in hate crimes committed against Hispanics and people perceived to be immigrants in recent years 'correlates closely' to the nation's increasingly contentious debate over immigration, faulting ...

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McALLEN, TexasThe number of U.S. border apprehensions dropped for a third consecutive year, falling to a level not seen since 1973, new government data shows. The U.S. Border Patrol last year had 724,000 apprehensions, falling more than 17 percent from ...

MEXICO CITYA survey by Mexico's National Human Rights Commission shows that thousands of mainly Central American migrants crossing the country to reach the United States are kidnapped for ransom every year. The commission says an estimated 9,758 migrants ...

New Mexico Business Weekly Related News Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met with Augustin Carstens, Mexico?s Minister of Finance and Public Credit, on Monday and signed an agreement intended to strengthen border security in both the U.S. ...

Mexico Under Siege DESPERATE POLICE TRY FOR U.S. ASYLUM Julio Ledezma had been chief of police in La Junta, a town of 8,700 in northern Mexico, for barely three months when a pair of strangers paid him a visit. They said an aide to the mayor had sent ...

Members balk at immigration rights, transgender hiring Members balk at immigration rights, transgender hiring Measure has wide bipartisan support ENDA, hate crimes most likely to see a vote MOST VIEWED Local: Where does Rev. Harry Jackson live? Editorial ...

Cost Study and Zogby Poll Offer Comprehensive Statewide Assessment WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Simultaneous studies, released this week by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), document the true costs of illegal ...