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OTTAWA (AFP) The United States and Canada agreed Wednesday to fortify their shared border, once trumpeted as the longest un-militarized boundary in the world, and work to jointly counter threats, officials said. Canadian Public Safety Minister Peter Van ...

AMAn immigration reform activist thinks the Obama administration has an ulterior motive for expanding a program started by President George W. Bush. The program -- known as Secure Communities -- matches the fingerprints of inmates held in local jails to ...

Security czar answers back The U.S. security czar tried to turn the page on an embarrassing gaffe today by stressing a new era of border co-operation with Canada. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano expressed apparent frustration with the media ...

President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor might buy him some time on a key campaign promise he made to Latino voters about making comprehensive immigration legislation a priority in his first year in office. 'I'm not sure I would even ...

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U.S. stock market report 0844 ET 27May2009-Borders results lift Barnes & Noble in premarket ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shares of Borders Group rose in premarket trading on Wednesday, after the ...

CSC has won a $27 million task order from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for records digitization. Falls Church-based CSC (NYSE: CSC) signed the one-year performance period deal during its fourth quarter for fiscal year 2009. It was initially ...

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 27 (MARKET WIRE) -- The Honourable Peter Van Loan, Minister of Public Safety and the Honourable Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security recognize the unique nature of the Canada-United States border and share a ...

The head of a major Canadian policy group is warning that looming U.S. greenhouse gas legislation will trigger a cross-border battle that will make the softwood lumber wars pale in comparison. Bob Page, the chair of the National Round Table on the ...

The foreign-born population in the United States is now at an all-time high - more than 10 percent. And while recession-time jobs are hard to come by for Americans, for those born overseas, finding a job here can be even tougher. Understanding what ...

DETROIT - A senior U.S. official who earlier stoked concerns that Canada's border would be treated no different than Mexico's said Tuesday that while the law governing the crossings is the same, the techniques used to implement it will be different. U.S. ...

The US has for several years fingerprinted foreign visitors, and because of hand-foot syndrome, Mr S lacked fingerprints. When he tried to enter the US, perplexed immigration officers delayed him for four hours while they worked out whether he posed a ...

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President Obama?s decision to nominate federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court may help him delay a thornier challenge: what to do with millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States. The nomination of the first ...

DETROIT - The United States and Canada adopted an agreement yesterday to allow law enforcement authorities of both nations to share personnel and cross the border more easily to fight human, drug, and weapon smuggling on waterways that separate them. ...

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Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will sign an agreement Monday to allow border officials in both countries to better enforce each other's laws. The pact, known as the Shiprider program, will ...

Mogadishu Hawiye traditional elders have disproved reports that wrote through the media saying that the elders asked asylum to the United States of America, official told Shabelle radio on Wednesday. Ahmed Dirie Ali, the spokesman of Hawiye traditional ...

(CNN) -- Americans and Canadians heading to the United States from Canada on vehicles or cruise ships will face new entry requirements beginning next week, the Homeland Security Department said. Next Monday, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative will ...