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Until those larger issues are sorted out, Bersin's first order of business is to dial down the temperature on a pair of seemingly intractable problems along the southwest border: drugs and immigration. Neither will be easy to fix, given the often ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An illegal immigrant who uses false identification papers must know they belonged to another person to be convicted of identity theft, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The high court's unanimous ruling was a victory for ...

WASHINGTONThe Supreme Court has ruled that an undocumented immigrant who uses a phony Social Security number to get work should not be considered an identity thief unless prosecutors can prove he knew the number belonged to a real person. The court ruled ...

A 49-year-old American man has been charged with several counts, including weapons charges, related to running the Manitoba-U.S. border, but is refusing to discuss the incident with police. Michael Calteaux is currently in custody at the Brandon ...

(Business Wire) VISANOW, the established leader in online U.S. Immigration Services, is expanding its offerings to include International Immigration Services, providing global corporations with a one-stop solution for managing worldwide immigration ...

Millions of Hispanics, mostly poor and uneducated, have immigrated to America illegally since the early 1990s. Most are Mexicans and most of them are high school dropouts. Compared to what they might have had in a slum or impoverished rural area of ...

Pakistan edged closer Sunday to a major conflict with Taliban militants as a controversial peace deal with Islamic extremists in the Swat valley near the Afghan border began to unravel, according to military officials and politicians. The confrontation ...

On many questions, President Obama's approach is full speed ahead. On immigration reform, he prefers to take things one step at a time. There really is no alternative. Immigration is politically vexing because it splits both parties and scrambles the ...

Xiu Ping Jiang, in an undated photo, has spent more than a year in jail and faces deportation. Her illness has complicated the process. Twice the immigration judge asked the womans name. Twice she gave it: Xiu Ping Jiang. But he chided her, a Chinese New ...

WASHINGTON: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that illegal immigration makes a significant contribution to US economic growth by providing a flexible workforce. Greenspan also endorsed an expansion of the H-1B visa programme for ...

This story appears in the May 4 print edition of Transport Topics. The Obama administration is continuing to work on a plan to restart cross-border trucking between the United States and Mexico, even as the two countries battle the spread of ??swine ...

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WASHINGTON: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that illegal immigration makes a ?significant? contribution to US economic growth by providing a flexible workforce. Greenspan also endorsed an expansion of the H-1B visa programme for ...

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the resolution passed by the U.S. Senate in honor of World Press Freedom Day on Sunday, May 3rd. According to the Senate, the resolution S.Res.124 'celebrates the fundamental right of freedom of the press, commends ...

New York. Since US immigration laws got stricter in1996, some 36,000 Dominicans have been deported, though unofficial figures raise the number to 56,000, a fact that has caused a serious crisis in that community, according to a new study. The report, ...

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Comments:'Infected' the immigration debate or spotlighted a crucially vital concern? See if you can find tuberculosis mentioned among the Hispanics' or AP's comments! The swine flu virus has infected the immigration debate, with talk show comments like ...

Teens acquitted of murder, aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation Verdict sends 'extremely dangerous' precedent, advocacy group says Schuylkill County prosecutors alleged the beating was racially motivated Incident drew national attention to small town ...

A U.S. man is in police custody in southwestern Manitoba after allegedly driving through a border crossing without stopping in a van loaded with guns, ammunition and a whole lot of gasoline. The unusual incident on Friday afternoon has attracted ...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon thanked Saturday his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama for not closing the border to people and goods, as well as for support in dealing with the epidemic of AH1N1 flu virus that has caused 16 deaths in his country. Calderon ...