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The government hasn't offered to help Alabama put in place a strict immigration law that the Obama administration is challenging in court, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday. The administration has sued to block the law, which is ...

More than 5,000 foreign criminals who should have been deported remain in the UK, including almost 4,000 who are free on the streets, figures showed. The UK Border Agency (UKBA) must reduce the number of its decisions which are overturned, mainly because ...

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Justice and Home Affairs Council The EU's home affairs ministers will meet in Council, on 27 October in Luxembourg, to continue their discussions on the difficult reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), as well as the ongoing negotiations on ...

(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Before you read on, sit down, cover your head and eyes with duct tape, because blood will shoot out of your eyeballs, as Glenn Beck used to say. A veteran US Border Patrol Agent has been sentenced to jail for ...

By passing a free trade deal with Colombia on Oct. 22, the U.S. government revived a $5.50 tariff on Canadian travellers entering the U.S. by air or by sea. On a return trip from Toronto to New York, where do the fees go? ...

Speaking to a political television program in Florida today, Gov. Rick Perry walked back his recent flirtation with the "birther" movement and announced his opposition to license plates bearing the Confederate flag. Perry made the comments in an ...

From 1970 to 2010, more than 10 million Mexicans migrated to the US. Now, after decades of rising numbers immigrating to the US, a new demographic trend is playing out: illegal immigration is waning. The Department of Homeland Security said in a 2010 ...

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Speaking to a political television program in Florida today, Gov. Rick Perry walked back his recent flirtation with the "birther" movement and announced his opposition to license plates bearing the Confederate flag. Perry made the comments in an ...

Another victory for Obama and Mexico over the Rule of Law and the American people! (1) Comments | Print friendly | Email Us If Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano are examples of what it takes to be considered an intellectual giant in modern society, ...

WASHINGTON -- The produce industry welcomed news that Mexico formally lifted tariffs that have amounted to more than $900 million of U.S. agricultural products since 2009, settling a costly dispute over a Mexican trucking pilot program. Mexico, the ...

It may not rank high in polls of voters' priorities compared to jobs and the economy, yet immigration has taken on a central role in the 2012 presidential campaign drama. Republican presidential debates have been a contest to see who can sound more ...

The unmanned checkpoint at Big Bend in southwest Texas is meant to boost tourism and trade with Mexico, and will have agents remotely scanning passports and other documents via cameras. Beefing up the US-Mexico border has been the ethos of the day in ...

After a complaint from the Mexican government, a U.S. Border Patrol agent has been sentenced to two years in prison for "violating" the constitutional rights of a 15-year-old drug smuggling suspect by not "lifting his arms properly." The Obama Justice ...

By Aman Batheja Fort Worth Star-Telegram A Have more to add? News tip? Tell us Speaking to a political television program in Florida today, Gov. Rick Perry walked back his recent flirtation with the "birther" movement and announced his opposition to ...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said on Wednesday that he has no doubt that President Barack Obama was born in the United States and is an American citizen, Adam Smith at the St. Petersburg Times reports . "I have no doubt about it," Perry says in an interview ...

Reform of asylum package and EU-US PNR deal on agenda The EU's home affairs ministers will meet in Council, on 27 October in Luxembourg, to continue their discussions on the difficult reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), as well as the ...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security is not helping state and local officials in Alabama implement the state's new immigration law that allows local authorities to detain people they suspect are in the country illegally. ...

Although President Barack Obama ran on the platform of comprehensive immigration reforms, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of immigrants. Last week, Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, told Congress that the ...