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A federal court has tossed a lawsuit brought by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer against the Obama administration over immigration enforcement. Brewer wants the courts to force the federal government to enforce immigration laws and secure the border. It was a ...

Mitt Romney, who has called government-funded programs that offer assistance to illegal immigrants magnets that draw more illegal immigrants to the country, allowed a health-care program that helps illegal immigrations to be included in the final ...

LAS VEGAS A year before the 2012 presidential election, Hispanic voters are facing a choice. They can continue to support President Barack Obama despite being hurt disproportionately by the economic downturn or turn to Republicans at a time when many GOP ...

Taiwan News, Newspaper Fonts Size associated presss LOS ANGELES The U.S. and Mexico will expand an earthquake monitoring system south of the border in the wake of last years deadly magnitude-7.2 temblor, officials from both countries announced ...

It is an oddity of the Obama years: A president who wants new pathways to legal residency for millions of undocumented immigrants is deporting them at a record rate. From Oct. 1, 2010, to the end of last month, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Though the drunk-driving illegal alien who allegedly mowed down a recent college graduate in Framingham, Mass., was indicted for murder on Friday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement permitted the illegal alien who witnessed the crime to escape custody. ...

On the Republican campaign trail, he derides any such public aid. But the healthcare law he signed as Massachusetts governor allows it. 0 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sharply criticizes public aid for illegal immigrants. But a healthcare ...

When Santa Clara County supervisors decided last week to buck the U.S. government by reducing the county's role in deporting criminals, immigration authorities warned local officials that they were endangering the public. But it's not only the feds who ...

A Chinese national who was charged with over-staying his visa, has been granted permission by Court to stay in Sri Lanka till December 31. His lawyer said he was seeking asylum in the United States, The Chinese national who arrived in Sri Lanka in March ...

- Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates. For many Latinos living throughout the U.S., October has been a difficult month as violence against the countrys Latino population is on the rise. On October 9, 14-year old Moises Martinez was viciously ...

Ivan Segura, a U.S. citizen who was born in Mexico, shakes his head when the Republican presidential candidates talk about illegal immigration. Theyre not talking about what to do about those who are already here, said Segura, who works as an advocate ...

When a little-known black Baptist preacher named Martin Luther King took the helm of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was already in Birmingham trying to start a movement, but nobody was paying attention. ...

The U.S. government ? Immigration and Customs Enforcement in particular ? steps up efforts to find, prosecute and deport people accused of human rights violations who try to hide here. When Carlos de Graca Lopes took over as director of Sao Martinho ...

John Schoneberg, a Nebraska breeder who has taken in hungry horses, says a slaughtering ban has not improved horses' lives. LINCOLN, Neb. The closing of the countrys last meat processing plant that slaughtered horses for human consumption was hailed as a ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) -- After being named Israel's minister for economic affairs to the United States, Eli Groner was required by U.S. law to revoke his U.S. citizenship. The following is the statement he submitted to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv upon his ...

In the months since he revealed in a New York Times Magazine article his 14-year secret about being an illegal immigrant, journalist Jose Antonio Vargas has added his voice to the divisive debate around illegal immigration. The former Washington Post ...

WASHINGTON In a move aimed at improving national security, House Republicans want to give the U.S. Border Patrol unprecedented authority to ignore 36 environmental laws on federal land in a 100-mile zone stretching along the Canadian and Mexican ...

The Obama administration is facing charges of hypocrisy for fighting a controversial Alabama immigration law while using the measure to arrest and deport illegal immigrants in the state.Civil rights and Latino advocacy groups laud the Justice ...

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People considering relocating to the US should get their visa application in as soon as possible, a Derry MLA has said. The SDLPs Pat Ramsey said: The Diversity Visa lottery 2013 has opened and as the Department of State in the US is only accepting ...