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Texas Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Obama on Wednesday warning that Mexican cartel violence is increasingly "spilling over" the border and calling for more security. Abbott cited a "deadly shootout" involving "cartel operatives" last ...

CORONA DEL MAR, Bill Cool: Articles such as World population hits 7 billion [World, Nov. 1] are extremely important to educate people about the rapidly growing population of the world. Unfortunately, the article didnt go far enough into problems ...

Posted: Updated: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 8:44 PM EST U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-Laurens, speaks to students at an Upstate school. (File/FOX Carolina) GREENVILLE, SC (AP/FOX Carolina) - First-term U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-Laurens, is defending his ...

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VANCOUVER, Wash. A book by Luz Mara Gordillo, WSU Vancouver assistant professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies, has won the annual book prize from the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists. "Mexican Women ...

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SAN DIEGO, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Five people allegedly attempting to cross the border from Mexico into California were rescued from a narrow pipe Wednesday, officials said. Border Patrol agents spotted the group entering an abandoned gas line about 11:15 p.m. ...

Children at the Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Framingham have a unique view: the top of a blue storage tank that stands behind a wooden fence separating the school's playground from General Chemical Corp., a hazardous-waste storage facility that's ...

Aspirants who apply for US citizenship through naturalization must establish an understanding of English language and also ability to speak, write and read words in regular usage. Knowledge and understanding of fundamentals of the history, principles and ...

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2011 file photo, students sit in the gym at Crossville Elmentary School in Crossville, Ala. Despite being in an almost all-white town, the school's enrollment is about 65 percent Hispanic. The U.S. Justice Department is asking ...

HOUSTON, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- The attorney general of the U.S. state of Texas on Wednesday released an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama asking for stronger federal action to secure the U.S.-Mexico border following spillover drug cartel violence ...

MEXICO CITY Mexico's Defense Department says soldiers have rescued 15 Honduran migrants who had been kidnapped and were being held in a house in Nuevo Laredo on the border with the United States. The military says troops patroling in the Privada ...

MEXICO CITY Mexicos Defense Department says soldiers have rescued 15 Honduran migrants who had been kidnapped and were being held in a house in Nuevo Laredo on the border with the United States. The military says troops patroling in the Privada Esmeralda ...

Washington, USA (AFP) - The US drive to expel illegal immigrants has separated more than 5,000 children from their parents, and another 15,000 face a similar fate in the coming years, a study said Wednesday. The report by the activist Applied Research ...

The U.S. Justice Department has suedSouth Carolina over its immigration law, calling itunconstitutional forpre-empting federallaw andpotentially leadingto the harassment and detention of U.S. citizens as well as authorized immigrants and ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. The U.S. Justice Department is asking every school district in Alabama to hand over enrollment information about all their students as part of its lawsuit challenging that states tough immigration law. The department sent letters to ...

The Obama administration stepped up its effort to beat back states' anti-immigration laws this week as the U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against South Carolina. The lawsuit says that more onerous sections of South Carolina's ...

The U.S. Justice Department is asking every school district in Alabama to hand over enrollment information about all their students as part of its lawsuit challenging that state's tough immigration law. The department sent letters to school ...

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Finance Minister Audley Shaw (left) welcomes Sharon Hay-Webster to the Government benches while Government members of parliament Frank Witter (second right) and Ernie Smith look on during yesterday's sitting of Parliament inside the Jamaica Conference ...