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Previous Issues Comment Safety Valve Hector Tobar's latest editorial says 'Immigration, after all, serves as a safety valve to keep the pressure cooker of Mexican inequality from exploding. For decades, the steam has vented steadily northward from ...

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The Obama administration is preparing to send federal agents to the south-west border as reinforcements in the fight against Mexican drug cartels, even as officials consider taking money from one immigration enforcement programme and using it to fight ...

Mexico plans to slap tariffs on about ninety US export products in response to the US government's decision to block the cross-border trucking pilot program. Sharon Gill reports ... While Mexico considers the decision to be nothing more than misguided ...

U.S. immigration authorities routinely delay, deny or botch medical care for detained immigrants in poorly equipped facilities nationwide, according to separate reports released by two advocacy groups Tuesday. Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigrant ...

PHNOM PENH, March 18 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. has affirmed that it will not interfere in the Cambodia-Thailand border dispute, said official news agency the Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) on Wednesday. 'The U.S. has never intervened in the border issues ...

US must not curb H-1B visas: Sunil Mittal Video: Paresh Gandhi Sunil Mittal, Bharti Airtel chairman, said that the United States needs to stimulate its economy further so as to tide over the economic crisis. He said that the upcoming G-20 Summit should ...

Efforts by Mexico and the United States to stem the skyrocketing cross-border drug and weapons trade are failing, and both countries are to blame for the rise of violent cartels responsible for more than 6,000 related deaths south of the border last ...

MIAMI - US immigration authorities routinely delay, deny, or botch medical care for immigrants in detention, according to separate reports by two advocacy groups released yesterday. Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center said ...

Mariela Rosario: The violence in Mexico is out of control and undeniably headed north. From beheadings to kidnappings, there seems to be no limit to what the cartels are willing to do to assert their dominance. They deal not only in drugs, but also in ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. administration plans to send reinforcements to the southwestern border to help contain the rampant violence of the Mexican drug cartel wars. Thirty-seven agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are being deployed to ...

conomist print edition AT HIS old job, Christian Garcia made root beer at a restaurant for $9 an hour. He thought the pay was too low; in any other city he would have expected $13. But he lives in McAllen, a border city in Texas with no shortage of ...

Senate subcommittee, caucus focus on ways to help Mexican leader's battle Mexican drug violence, fueled by U.S. guns, cash, is creeping north, senator says Most guns seized in raids traced to U.S.; 2,000 cross into Mexico daily, he says Authorities ...

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Since the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Serves (USCIS) Acting Deputy Director Michael Aytes attacked my credibility and my article, Crime and Corruption at the USCIS last January, he has not responded to my request for an interview. See story here. ...

California lawmakers and the Obama administration have begun to shift U.S. border policy with Mexico, abruptly changing focus from illegal immigration to the flow of cash and weapons from the United States that is fueling a savage war between the ...

Following on a lead from an informant, police stumbled on the remains of nine bodies partially exhumed in the desert just outside of Cuidad Juarez, a city nestled near the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday. With the discovery, authorities also notified the ...

WASHINGTON?Various media outlets reported that the Mexican government has placed tariffs on 90 American agricultural and manufactured exports as payback for the United States Congress?s recent decision to officially cease the cross-border trucking ...

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth Washington, Mar 17 (bdnews24.com)-When people think of what to do to help the U.S. economic recovery, admitting more immigrants into America isn't what usually comes to mind. But a new study by Arlene Holen, an economist and ...

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