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Filed Under: Mainz, Germany After being questioned by authorities for nearly nine hours at the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees on Wednesday, U.S. Army Spc. Andr Shepherd felt tired, but also ????full of hope to win the ...

San Francisco Business Times Related News Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), introduced an amendment to the $900 billion stimulus package that would bar companies that received bailout funds from hiring foreign skilled workers with H1-B work visas, AFP is ...

Financial services firms that receive will be prohibited from hiring H-1B workers if legislation introduced last night in the U.S. Senate wins adoption. The bill would bar any recipient of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), the program being used ...

Each year, Fairfax County classrooms serve more than 20,000 students who are learning English as a second language. They also serve many of their parents. More than 8,000 foreign-born adults enroll in classes annually through the county's adult and ...

The US Border Patrol on Monday ordered an investigation of allegations by agents in Southern California that they were given arrest quotas and threatened with punishment if they failed to meet them. Jeffrey Calhoon, El Centros chief patrol agent, said ...

As the Obama administration vows to re-engineer immigration policy to target criminals, a new report says that in recent years, a high-profile federal program shifted its focus away from catching the most dangerous illegal immigrants who were evading ...

For more than five years, U.S. immigration authorities have touted the success of a national program aimed at arresting and deporting dangerous criminals and fugitives. In frequent early morning raids at homes in Los Angeles and around the country, ...

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) may be sending (MSFT) saying the company has 'a moral obligation' to put the jobs of US citizens ahead of H-1B immigrant workers amidst layoffs, but the wind in Washington is still blowing in favor of the H-1B program, which ...

AM IST WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's new pick as commerce secretary, Senator Judd Gregg, may well become the White House lead for expanding the cap on H-1B visas, a bulk of which go to Indian firms. Gregg, who strongly supported expanding the ...

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's new pick as commerce secretary, Senator Judd Gregg, may well become the White House lead for expanding the cap on H-1B visas, a bulk of which go to Indian firms. Gregg, who strongly supported expanding the H-1B visa ...

Berlin A U.S. soldier who went AWOL after serving in Iraq argued for asylum in Germany at a closed hearing Wednesday in Karlsruhe. U.S. Army Spc. Andre Shepherd walked off his unit's base near Katterbach, Germany, in April 2007 after returning from a ...

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's new pick as commerce secretary, Senator Judd Gregg, may well become the White House lead for expanding the cap on H-1B visas, a bulk of which go to Indian firms. Gregg, who strongly supported expanding the H-1B visa ...

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BOSTON -- A top Homeland Security official for the Northeast has been indicted on a charge that she encouraged her housekeeper, whom she knew to be an illegal immigrant, to stay in the U.S. Lorraine Henderson, the Boston area port director for Homeland ...

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Source: Tom's Hardware US ? Category : Workstations 8 comments Recent layoff announcements within the IT sector have been all the buzz lately along with economic downturn, however Microsoft?s recent layoffs gained the attention Senator Charles ...

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Sen. Gregg Judd would bring a record to the Department of Commerce that unabashedly endorses an expansion of H1-B workers for the technology industry. That support, though, doesn't necessarily mean either the U.S. House or Senate will move to expand the ...