Immigration News from around the Web

Summary: A Media Matters analysis found that April 9 reports about immigration policy on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News frequently featured footage of people apparently crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The footage distorts the issue; it does not ...

The by U.S. companies is decreasing wages for computer programmers, system analysts and software engineers by as much as 6%, according to a study released last week by researchers at New York University's Stern School of Business and the Wharton School ...

According to statements made in court, in March 2006, agent Rene Soliz of Alice, Texas contacted an individual in Dar-Es Salaam, Tanzania, who was selling leopard tortoises. Soliz asked to buy eight of the tortoises and indicated an interest in buying ...

ASK THE US AMBASSADOR William E Todd, US Ambassador to Brunei. This week, I received an interesting question, one related to an issue very important to me - travel to the US. Before I begin to answer questions, as always, I look forward to hearing from ...

The movement for comprehensive immigration reform has gained a head of steam in the ten days since a the president planned to begin addressing the issue this year, and Bay Area residents are weighing in. Though overhauling the immigration system has ...

General Board of Global Ministries The United Methodist Church 475 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10115 Contact: Elliott Wright Tel: 212/870-3921 email: ewright@gbgm-umc.org Phoenix, Arizona, April 16, 2009-- A group of United Methodist bishops has ...

PHOENIX -- It seemed a fortuitous alignment of justice and politics, George Iknadosian's trial beginning just as President Obama called for new attention to the flow of weapons from the United States to the drug cartels inside Mexico. The Phoenix gun ...

EL CALABOZ, Texas -- With the hope of change evaporatingduring the Obama Administration, a federal judge ruled that Homeland Security can seize the Tamez family land. After a court battle, with an alert to the international community, the Tamez family ...

'Mexico to use biochip to control illegal immigration,' screamed the headline at earthtimes.org. That seemed like another terrific reason to break out the bubbly a bit early. As if I needed any excuse to imbibe early and often. Without reading the small ...

MANILA, Philippines - Two American fugitives, wanted for drug trafficking and an P18-million dollar bank fraud, will be returned to the United States to face trial, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said yesterday. The BI said in a statement that they have ...

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SUNLAND PARK, N.M. ? The U.S. military has no plans to send troops to the border with Mexico, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday. Adm. Michael Mullen, who spoke to reporters after a brief tour of the border in and around El Paso, ...

POTTSVILLE, Pa. A Pennsylvania prosecutor says charges have been dropped against one of three teenagers arrested in the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico last year. Schuylkill County prosecutor James Goodman says 17-year-old Colin Walsh ...

WASHINGTON (PRNewswire).- More than US$1.1 million will be used to improve agricultural training, marketing and planting more profitable crops along the impoverished Haiti-Dominican Republic border, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) ...

The nation?s two largest labor union federations, the AFL-CIO and the Change to Win, announced on April 13 unanimous support for planned legislation that will achieve a wholesale overhaul of the official American stance on immigration. Specifically, ...

OTTAWA'Canada-U.S. border slowdowns are mainly a result of aging infrastructure at crossings, not overly restrictive U.S. policy, says a senior American security official. With a deadline looming that will require passports for entry into the U.S. by ...

President Obama will make a stop in Mexico City today, the first presidential visit to the hemisphere?s largest metropolis since the early 1990s. He?ll meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and the topic will be what I?m calling the NAFTA ...

Escalating violence in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez has finally provided justification for something the United States should have been doing since the early 1990s?securing its southern border. Over the past few months, Mexican president ...

The White House announcement that it will tackle comprehensive immigration reform this year is good news for the roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and their supporters. However, if the package does not include at least the ...

Bishop Minerva Carcao marches Feb. 28 in Phoenix with demonstrators to protest crackdowns on illegal immigrants. A UMNS file photo by Kathy L. Gilbert. A UMNS Report A United Methodist bishop is applauding the White House for upcoming conversations on ...