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Source: Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) Washington D.C., February 26, 2008 - As the 111th Congress gets underway, a flurry of activity has been taking place regarding proposed immigration policy. Much of this activity has been ...

It?s been widelyreported that illegal aliens comprise upwards of 27 percent of the US prison and jail population. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection ? two agencies within the Department of Homeland Security ? ...

A brutal wave of drug violence is ravaging cities near the U.S.-Mexico border, and governments of both countries pointed fingers at each other this week over who's to blame. More than 6,000 people were killed south of the border last year 1,000 have died ...

'The election of Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States, has further 'inflamed racist extremists who see it as another sign that their country is under siege by non-whites,' Page tools WASHINGTON (AFP)---A record number ...

A lawyer for one of two men accused of murdering an Ecuadorean immigrant in a hate crime said Saturday his client acted in self-defense, believing the victim was reaching for a gun during a scuffle. Keith Phoenix, 28, was being held without bail after ...

NEW YORK A lawyer for one of two men accused of murdering an Ecuadorean immigrant in a hate crime said Saturday his client acted in self-defense. Keith Phoenix, 28, was held without bail after being arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder as a hate ...

Thousands of people protesting a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigrants by an Arizona sheriff marched through Phoenix on Saturday, toting placards reading 'We Are Human' and 'Stop the Raids.' Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched deputies ...

Congressional trips to Gaza on Feb. 19, are completely coherent with the policies of Secretary of State Clinton and Special Envoy George Mitchell, who will both attend the March 2 Gaza donors' conference in Cairo, and will commit $900 million to rebuild ...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico ? Rampaging organized crime syndicates thumbed their noses at reinforced security measures in northern Mexico, killing 20 people overnight, authorities said Thursday. Six of the killings in Chihuahua state were committed in Ciudad ...

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Customs and Border Protection water units patrol the Rio Grande River under the Gateway International Bridge in Brownsville, Texas. Erich Schlegel / Dallas Morning News / Corbis The ebbing stretch of Rio Grande that divides the Texas city of El Paso from ...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico ? Mexico is sending thousands more troops and federal police to the country's most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a war between gangs supplying drugs to the United States. The army said on ...

MEXICO CITY Mexico blames Americans for arming the world's most powerful drug cartels, a complaint supported Friday by a U.S. government report that found nearly all of Mexico's escalating drug killings involved weapons from north of the border. ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center says the election of President Barack Obama, shown here during a visit to North Carolina today, has provoked activity among hate groups. A miserable economy. The election of the nation's first black president. A surge in ...

Don?t get too excited over that headline. First, the soldiers being trained to secure the border aren?t US soldiers. And the soldiers who are being trained will secure the Iran-Iraq border, not the U.S.-Mexico border. While military officials ...

U.S. President Barack Obama's $3.55-trillion (U.S.) budget that supports allowing people to buy cheaper medicines from Canada needs to be weighed in relation to his -care reform plans, the head of a Canadian pharmacists group said Friday. On Thursday, ...

Los Angeles police are searching for a man posing as a federal immigration agent who handcuffed, abducted and robbed a man near downtown, authorities said. The phony Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, wearing a bulletproof vest and a sidearm, ...

OTTAWA ? The new U.S. secretary of homeland security says Canada shouldn?t read too much into her review of the Canadian border. Janet Napolitano say it?s a simple fact-finding exercise and not prompted by specific security concerns. She also says ...

BANGALORE: Top Indian tech firms such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro, apart from scandal-hit Satyam Computer Services, received maximum number of H-1B work permits last year, as these companies sent more professionals to the US in order to serve customers ...

OTTAWA -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano sought to assure Canadians on Friday that a recent review of U.S-Canada border security was simply a fact-finding exercise, not necessarily a prelude to tougher border measures. In an unusual ...