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MEXICO CITY The relationship between Presidents and Vicente Fox started promisingly in 2001 with talk of a U.S.-Mexico plan to reform the U.S. Immigration system. Then came the Sept. 11 attacks, and there was little appetite for aiding foreigners living ...

NEW: Obama says he has 'not backed off' pledge to reinstate ban NEW: Caldern says end of U.S. assault-weapons ban tied to rise in drug violence NEW: 90 percent of caotured assault weapons come from U.S., Caldern says Obama heading to Summit of the ...

EL PASO, Texas -- A former Justice Department official who led a 1990s crackdown on illegal border crossings was named to the new U.S. post of 'border czar' Wednesday to oversee efforts to end drug-cartel violence along the U.S.-Mexico border and to slow ...

MEXICO CITYPresident Barack Obama says that when it comes to overhauling immigration, one of his goals is to eliminate the politics that doomed a previous attempt to revamp the system. Obama says he favors a commonsense approach that will help people on ...

Embattled bookseller Borders US has plunged further into the red, prompting some experts in the US to suggest Chapter 11 bankruptcy may be its only chance of survival. The company reported a consolidated loss of $16.2m (10.9m) in the year to January 31 ...

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Reviving a ban on assault weapons and more strictly enforcing existing gun laws could help tamp down drug violence that has run rampant on the U.S.-Mexican border, President Obama said Thursday. Speaking alongside Mexican ...

MEXICO CITY -- About a dozen U.S.-born children of deported immigrants are hoping to catch President Barack Obama's attention during his visit to Mexico's capital. The children have given a letter to the U.S. Embassy asking the president to stop ...

Only about 5 percent of trucks coming into the country from Mexico are inspected, according to U.S. officials. Watch 'World News with Charles Gibson' tonight at 6:30pm ET and 'Nightline' at 11:30pm ET for Brian Ross' full report. 'It is just too costly ...

The invitation came to a handful of Canadian journalists. Thirty minutes, on the record, with Jane Holl Lute - the number two official in the United States Department of Homeland Security - while she was Ottawa this week to discuss U-S perspectives on ...

Fewer companies filed petitions for H-1B visas this year as the economic recession continues to threaten U.S. jobs and shrink the demand for foreign talent. U.S. companies since April 1 have filed some 42,000 petitions with the U.S. Citizenship and ...

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President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon pledged to work together on challenges confronting both countries, focusing on the fight to crush the Mexican drug cartels and drug violence that plagues the border region. MAP: Past presidential ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. court on Thursday demanded a doctor's report on the health of suspected guard John Demjanjuk and other information, delaying for at least a week his deportation to Germany for trial. The appeals court, which ordered a halt to ...

Juan Maldonado is suffering the same culture shock as many other children of Mexican immigrants: He's out of place at school and hasn't mastered the language. The difference? The U.S.-born Maldonado feels like an outsider in Mexico. ...

A U.S. immigration appeals board on Thursday denied a request to reopen the deportation case of John Demjanjuk, who is wanted in Germany to face accusations that he served as a Nazi death camp guard. The ruling by the immigration board in Virginia means ...

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Alan Bersin, left, gestures during a meeting of the Board of Education in Sacramento, California. He was announced April 15 as the new 'border czar' Rich Pedroncelli / AP He's been here before. Alan Bersin, President Obama's pick for 'border czar' ...

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