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The Obama administration is taking South Carolina to federal court over an immigration bill the state passed in June. The South Carolina bill is the latest attempt by a state to take on immigration reform directly. Supporters of the South Carolina law ...

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The United States Department of Justice filed suit Monday in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina seeking to enjoin and have declared invalid the states recently adopted immigration law. The measure (S.B. 20) was signed ...

HERMOSILLO, Mexico The Mexican army says soldiers have seized two catapults that were being used by drug smugglers to fling packages of marijuana across the border into Arizona. A military statement Tuesday says an anonymous tip led troops to a house in ...

Tuesday...Temperatures will range from a high of 58 to a low of 45 degrees with mostly cloudy skies. Winds will range between 4 and 12 miles per hour from the south. Less than 1 tenth inch of rain is possible. ...

The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter late Monday to school superintendents in Alabama requesting information on enrollment practices, saying the state's new immigration law "may chill or discourage" participation in public education. "It has come ...

HERMOSILLO, Mexico ? The Mexican army says soldiers have seized two catapults that were being used by drug smugglers to fling packages of marijuana across the border into Arizona. A military statement Tuesday says an anonymous tip led troops to a house ...

A 44-year old man from Lake Cowichan is facing several charges after police intercepted him allegedly smuggling over $2,600,000 in U.S. cash in to the United States. On March 24, 2011, just before midnight, a boat was detected by members of ...

_ CLEVELAND Attorneys for John Demjanjuk, 91, made the appeal in renewing their request to U.S. District Court Judge Dan Aaron Polster to hold a hearing on whether Demjanjuk should regain his U.S. citizenship. Last month, prosecutors said the retired ...

On October 18, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director John Morton announced the removal of the largest number of illegal immigrants in the ICE history. The agency boasted the record-breaking deportation of 396,906 individuals in fiscal ...

A drug cartel member who was deported to Mexico as part of a major smuggling bust announced this week in Arizona has already returned to the U.S. and been caught with $1.6 million worth of drugs _ yet another example of how relentless and seemingly ...

The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of South Carolina over its immigration law recently signed by the governor, saying that it goes against the Constitution. ...

_ COLUMBIA, S.C. - Presidential candidates are criticizing the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit against South Carolina's illegal immigration law ahead of next week's debate on national security issues. The department on Monday challenged a law that ...

USCIS had received about 41,000 H-1B petitions that are subject to the general cap and, additionally, 19,100 H-1B petitions for foreign nationals with advanced degrees. Currently, the general cap on the H-1B category is 65,000 (with certain visas set ...

As debate rages over immigration policing along the southern US border with Mexico, US Border Patrol has scaled back its operations along the northern border with Canada. US Customs and Border Protection has stopped routine visa checks on the Canadian ...

Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, calling questions about President Barack Obamas citizenship a big distraction, said his partys presidential candidates are dropping it. Ive said from the very ...

Newt Gingrich is denouncing a move by the Obama Administration to sue the state of South Carolina in hopes of overturning a controversial immigration law, calling the move "an outrage."The South Carolina law requires police to call federal immigration ...

An ambush on US troops near a Pakistani border town in 2007 that left an American officer dead was an act of a "rogue" Pakistani militiaman and not a plot by the country's military, a Pentagon probe has said. Army Major Larry J Bauguess was gunned down ...

(CNN) -- Justice Department officials pressed their campaign against an immigration law in South Carolina on Monday, saying the measure passed there this summer unconstitutionally pre-empts federal authority. South Carolina's law also could lead to the ...

Bloomberg Business Week: (Bloomberg) -- South Carolinas new immigration law is unconstitutional and should be declared invalid, the U.S. Justice Department claimed in a lawsuit. South Carolinas law clearly conflicts with the policies and ...