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Feb 20 (Reuters) - A dramatic fall in the size of Mexican families is easing pressure on the job market and could reduce the number of Mexicans crossing the U.S. border illegally in search. Here are some facts about Mexican demographics and the flow of ...

NEW DELHI: Microsoft Corp?s plan to eliminate US workers after lobbying for more foreigner visas is stirring resentment among lawmakers and employees. As many as 5,000 employees are being shown the door at Microsoft, which uses more H1-B guest-worker ...

> > By Swati , , Feb 20 : The time when young budding IT professionals of would head to the United States for either higher studies or to fetch themselves the 'dream' job, seems almost to be over. The US gives 65,000 H1B work visas every year and over ...

Borders Group in the US is to reduce its corporate workforce by another 136 positions, with the jobs eliminated immediately. The job losses represent about 12% of the corporate workforce but less than 1% of the company's total workforce. It is the ...

The US Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, under the new Obama administration, are proceeding with the deportation of tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants. The continuity of this brutal policy ...

While the first meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will focus on a variety of issues, there is little doubt that the economy, energy security and the environment will be among the major topics to be ...

Net migration from Mexico, mainly to the United States, plunged by more than 50 percent in late 2008 compared to a year earlier as fewer Mexicans left their country in search of work, the government said Thursday. Mexican officials attributed the sharp ...

NEW YORK: US technology companies, which are laying off thousands of employees, will likely have to water down their long-running campaign for permission to hire more foreign workers to avoid a political backlash this year. The tech industry employs ...

By Sudhir Ahmad Afridi LANDIKOTAL: Border authorities at Torkham detained a suspicious African-American woman who was attempting to cross the border into Afghanistan on Thursday. The woman, identified as, Aisha Rokh Muhammad, 45, who was reportedly a ...

Harper, U.S. President hold working lunch; officials tout agreement on clean energy technology Article Video Comments (466) STEVEN CHASE and CAMPBELL CLARK Globe and Mail Update OTTAWA ? Prime Minister Stephen Harper ended a brief visit with U.S. ...

While the number of returning Mexicans stayed largely the same, the number leaving fell from 933,000 to 654,000 in the comparison period. ...

Immigration, Refugees and Border Security Democratic Members Charles Schumer, New York (Chairman) Patrick Leahy, Vermont Dianne Feinstein, California Richard Durbin, Illinois Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Ron Wyden, Oregon Republican Members John ...

Feb 20 (Reuters) - A dramatic fall in the size of Mexican families is easing pressure on the job market and could reduce the number of Mexicans crossing the U.S. border illegally in search. Here are some facts about Mexican demographics and the flow of ...

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Canada has been concerned by the 'thickening' of the U.S.-Canada border caused by increased security since the September 11 attacks and the impact it has had a trade, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday. Harper, speaking after talks with U.S. ...

President Obama is spending seven hours in Canada today, making his first international visit to our neighbor to the north. Gone -- amid the donning of his executive authority and the convulsions of a global financial crisis -- is some of his tough talk ...

MANILA, Philippines - Operatives of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) did not have to launch an extensive search to catch a convicted American pedophile living in the country; the fugitive personally went to their office to apply for an extension of his ...

A convicted American pedophile was arrested recently inside the Bureau of Immigration (BI) main building in Intramuros, Manila. Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan said Mark Joseph McDowell, 58, was applying for an extension of his tourist visa ...

Ignatieff told CTV News he is looking forward to his meeting with the president and will make the most of it, even though they are officially scheduled for only 15 minutes. He said he would be raising issues that are important to Canadians and Canada. 'I ...