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McClatchy Newspapers The Center for Immigration Studies was the first to note that undocumented immigrants were leaving the United States. MIAMI (MCT) - Malaquias Gaspar left his farm village in southern Mexico when the economy soured in the mid-1990s. ...

Guest: Andre Shepherd, served in Iraq between September 2004 and February 2005 as an Apache helicopter mechanic. He went AWOL a year and a half ago to avoid redeployment to Iraq. He is seeking asylum in Germany. AMY GOODMAN: We?re on the road in ...

And I will make it a top priority in my first year as President not only because we have an obligation to secure our borders and get control of what comes in and out of our country. And not only because we have to crack down on employers who are abusing ...

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A A grassroots organization has delivered a petition demanding that President Bush commute the sentences of two former border patrol agents who remain in solitary confinement after being convicted of shooting a fleeing Mexican drug smuggler. ...

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Lawyer Central announces the release of its Citizenship Resource Center, featuring a guide to the various legal aspects of U.S. citizenship. Citizenship and nationality are increasingly complex and dynamic areas of law, and this guide is designed to ...

by They are leaving. Illegal immigrants, that is. Analysts from both ends of the immigration debate, from the Center for Immigration Studies to the Pew Hispanic Center, agree. The 'unlawfully present' population in the United States has shrunk and it's ...

Miami's Freedom Tower became known as 'The Refuge' to 450,000 Cuban refugees who passed through its doors from 1962 to 1974. Volunteers offered food, medical care, financial support. Miami Herald Staff Related Content The database -- an Ellis-Island ...

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A suspected US missile strike killed two people in Pakistan near the Afghan border, officials and a witness said yesterday, as two prominent US senators visited Islamabad amid flaring tensions over the Mumbai attacks in India. The Monday night strike in ...

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PHOENIX (Reuters) - The Mexican government has opened a special call center in Arizona to provide a sympathetic ear for citizens caught up in crackdown on illegal immigration in the desert state. Officials at the Mexican consulate in Tucson said they ...

As we have reported earlier in our article 'Barack Obama and the Citizenship Scandal,' it has been alleged that Barack Obama is ineligible to become president for two reasons: evidence has come forward that Obama was born in Kenya, not the United States ...

the Supreme Court unsurprisingly decided not to hear a case by retired lawyer Leo Donofrio claiming that Obama is not eligible to be president because Obama had dual nationality at birth, so he wasn't a natural born citizen as required under the ...

The new administration's Blueprint for Change devotes four pages to most of the political issues it encompasses, but on immigration there are two. But it says enough to know where Obama intends to take the country. Obama opens the section on immigration ...

The Swedish welfare state is far from successful when it comes to integrating immigrants into its economy. Among first-generation immigrants from non-industrialized countries, less than half the adults are active in the labor market. Welfare dependency ...

Early this fall, suitors were knocking on the door at Linens 'N Things' Canadian subsidiary. Business was steady, even five months after its U.S. parent had collapsed into bankruptcy protection. Today, the company's 40 Canadian stores are being ...

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court has turned down another challenge to Barack Obama's eligibility to serve president because of his citizenship. The appeal by Cort Wrotnowski of Greenwich, Conn., was denied today without comment. Wrotnowski argued that Obama ...

A few hundred people on Sunday marched in Brooklyn to protest last week's fatal beating of a 31-year-old Ecuadorean man -- an incident authorities say may have been a hate crime. The demonstrators -- holding signs reading 'No more hate crimes' -- walked ...