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Today is Tax Day, a day that recurs in infamy. All of us who work for a living and (unlike a number of Obama appointees) pay our taxes dread this day, Tax Day is the perfect time to examine less-familiar facets of the tax code, such as the Earned Income ...

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court halted the deportation of accused guard John Demjanjuk on Tuesday and he was freed from custody just hours after immigration agents carried him out of his Ohio home to send him to Germany for trial. 'He went ...

WASHINGTON - The number of US-citizen children born to illegal immigrants has dramatically increased over the past five years from 2.7 million in 2003 to 4 million in 2008, according to a study released yesterday. The report by the nonpartisan, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Community groups and Spanish-language media organizations that helped push a record number of immigrants to become citizens last year said Tuesday that they want to build on that success. More than 1 million immigrants became U.S. ...

CLEVELAND - John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk) was released from federal custody Tuesday evening, just hours after six immigration officers removed the accused Nazi death camp guard from his suburban home in a wheelchair, authorities said. Federal officials ...

Nearly three-quarters of illegal immigrants' children were born in the USA and are citizens, according to a report released Tuesday. Those 4 million children muddy the immigration debate, raising questions about enforcement and public services for ...

Federal authorities have repeatedly said their priority is to find and remove illegal immigrants with violent criminal histories, but the U.S. government's stepped up enforcement in recent years has led to the deportation of hundreds of thousands of ...

NEW YORK: There are an estimated 11.9 million illegal immigrants in the US constituting four percent of the population, according to a study released Tuesday. The study by the independent Pew Research Center, which is based on the data collected by the ...

In five years of social outreach at Our Lady Queen of Angels church in Los Angeles, Guillermo Armenta has always seen more new arrivals stream into this historic haven for illegal immigrants than leave. Until now. In the last few months, he said, nearly ...

The United States?? two major labor federations have agreed for the first time to join forces to support an overhaul of the immigration system, leaders of both organizations said on Monday. The accord could give President Obama significant support ...

What's this WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will name former Justice Department official Alan Bersin to oversee its policy on illegal immigration and drug-related violence along the U.S. border with Mexico, Politico reported on Tuesday. ...

In five years of social outreach at Our Lady Queen of Angels church in Los Angeles, Guillermo Armenta has always seen more parishioners stream into this historic haven for illegal immigrants than leave. Until now. In the last few months, he said, nearly ...

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What's this CHICAGO (Reuters) - Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk filed another U.S. court appeal Tuesday to stop his deportation to Germany, where he faces trial for complicity in the deaths of 29, Jews during World War Two. Lawyers for the ...

Among the thousands of people hard-hit by Italy's earthquake last week are a large number of immigrants who have seen the lives they built for themselves in a new land destroyed in an instant. While Italians with means have taken refuge at second homes ...

The number of U.S.-citizen children born to illegal immigrants has dramatically increased over the past five years from 2.7 million in 2003 to 4 million in 2008, according to a study released today. The report by the nonpartisan, Washington-based Pew ...

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Obama plans to begin addressing the country?s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, an administration official said Wednesday.','','','','','1','08:20, 09/04/09','Julia ...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Drug cartel gun battles that leave dead bodies yards from American soil have turned Mexico's bloodstained northern border into a major foreign policy challenge for U.S. President Barack Obama. Much closer to home than ...

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