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U.S. TO SEND MORE AGENTS TO CURB BORDER VIOLENCE WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is sending hundreds of additional agents to the Southwest in an effort to target Mexican drug networks and limit violence spilling into the U.S. But the initiative ...

WASHINGTON - When U.S. President Barack Obama visited Ottawa last month, he spoke optimistically about finding ways for Canada and the United States to 'balance our security concerns with an open border' that encourages even greater trade between the two ...

Latino immigrants working in a Los Angeles grocery store (file photo)As the economic recession in the United States drags on, many migrants who came here looking for work are finding it more difficult to support families in their home countries. A ...

Guest: Rosa Clemente, Immigrant Rights Campaign Director for Amnesty International USA. AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to a new report from Amnesty International lambasting the state of the immigrant detention system in this country. 400,000 people are ...

The U.S. government pretends to end the illegal sales of weapons through its border with Mexico, visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday in Monterrey, capital of the province Nuevo Leon, north Mexico. Clinton, who arrived in Mexico ...

Madurai: One fourth of H-1B visas to the US from India are issued by the US Consulate in Chennai, which caters to the four southern states, Consul General Andrew T Simkin has said. On denial of H-1B visas, he said as there was a provision to apply for a ...

Don't expect the Obama administration to be in a hurry to roll out its plans for comprehensive immigration reform. In fact, blueprints to secure some type of legal status for millions of illegal alien workers may be shelved until 2010. Still, the new ...

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For me, coming from Japan, a small island composed mainly of people from the same race and ethnicity, the diversity of the United States population was more than I could have ever imagined. Which brings me to my somewhat embarrassing point: I have never ...

WASHINGTON - Janet Napolitano has a message for Canadians: It's a border. Get used to it. The new Homeland Security Secretary had only stern comments yesterday about the state and future of the Canada-U.S. border, at a symposium hosted by the Brookings ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) Republican Senator John McCain called Thursday for deploying more US National Guard troops to the southern US border to contain violence spilling over from Mexico's fight with drug cartels. 'I support sending National Guard troops to ...

WASHINGTON, Mar 26 (OneWorld.net) - Though immigration reform has taken a back seat to the economic crisis, Latin American media outlets in the United States and abroad continue to stress the importance of reshaping U.S. policies while highlighting the ...

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PM By U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Mar 23, 2009 - 6:45:32 PM USCIS Announces New Requirements for Hiring ...

President Barack Obama is putting boots on the ground and money on the table to make good on his campaign position that winning the war against Mexican drug cartels will require a comprehensive two-nation approach. It's about time -- and we hope for ...

WASHINGTON -- A senior official in the Obama administration doused hopes on Wednesday that the Canadian border will be treated differently than the beefed-up Mexican boundary where drug violence is escalating and countless illegal immigrants flood into ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin accepting H-1B petitions for new employees on April 1. Those petitions will be for the 2010 fiscal year with employment beginning Oct. 1. For fiscal year 2009, the USCIS received more than the ...

Summary: On his radio show, Lou Dobbs asked his guest for his 'reaction' to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 'saying last week that enforcement in the workplace, immigration law enforcement is, quote-unquote, 'un-American.' ' In fact, Pelosi criticized as ...

WASHINGTON Janet Napolitano has a message for Canadians: It's a border. Get used to it. The new Homeland Security Secretary had only stern comments yesterday about the state and future of the Canada-U.S. border, at a symposium hosted by the Brookings ...