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Contractors are opposing a government plan that would require them to verify the immigration status of their employees. They say the proposed plan, which could take effect in the next few months, would be a huge drain on their human resources staff. And ...

We turn now to the sprawling detention system within this country that some have likened to a gulag and a series of domestic Guantanamo Bays: The immigration prisons that over 300,000 people pass through each year. Earlier this month a 34-year old ...

British Airways will use a re-fuelling stop at Shannon in the west of Ireland to speed corporate travellers through US immigration when it begins daily flights between London City and New York next year. BA plans to launch the twice-daily service in ...

The Pennsylvania youths allegedly hurled racial slurs at the Mexican immigrant. Three teens accused of beating to death a Mexican immigrant in a tiny Pennsylvania coal-mining town last month must stand trial, a judge ruled Monday. The judge agreed with ...

A teenager testified Monday that two friends charged in the beating death of a Mexican illegal immigrant in a small Pennsylvania town punched and kicked the victim during a late-night, epithet-filled melee, then plotted to lie about it a day later. A ...

Mexican officials say soldiers have rescued 25 Central Americans kidnapped in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. State police spokesman Sergio Lopez says the army raided a house in the town of Tierra Blanca and arrested one man Monday. He says authorities ...

WASHINGTON (AFP)--The U.S. said Tuesday it would study any application for asylum by ex-Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf but pointed out that no such bid had been made so far. 'We haven't been asked to provide him with any asylum or place of ...

POTTSVILLE, Pa.Three teens were ordered Monday to stand trial in the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico after a friend of the defendants testified that the victim was sucker-punched and kicked in the head during a late-night, ...

Mexican officials say soldiers have rescued 25 Central Americans kidnapped by smugglers in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.State police spokesman Sergio Lopez says the army raided a house in the town of Tierra Blanca and arrested one man Monday. He says ...

POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) _ Three teens were ordered Monday to stand trial in the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico after a friend of the defendants testified that the victim was sucker-punched and kicked in the head during a late-night, ...

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A teenager testified Monday that two friends charged in the beating death of a Mexican illegal immigrant in a small Pennsylvania town punched and kicked the victim during a late-night, epithet-filled melee, then plotted to lie about it a day later. A ...

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PENNSYLVANIA POTTSVILLE - A judge has ordered three teenagers to stand trial on charges related to the beating death of a Mexican immigrant in a small eastern Pennsylvania town. A judge in Pottsville said yesterday that prosecutors have enough evidence ...

LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR: I wonder whose high-pitched voice that was. Suzanne, thank you very much. Tonight U.S. policy toward Moscow appears to be at a turning point. Tonight we examine the policy options facing the Bush administration and our next ...

Editor's Note: A Mexican government official called on Mexican workers in the United States to send more money home, but Mexican migrants did not respond favorably. Gardenia Mendoza Aguilar reports from Mexico City and Eileen Truax from Los Angeles for ...

POTTSVILLE, Pa. About 40 protesters outside the courthouse in Pottsville have been told to keep quiet or they'll be forced to move. The protesters are from workers and immigrants' rights groups. A defense attorney complained about the distraction and the ...

The Carbon Project announces it has been selected by the 2008 National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Cooperative Agreement Program (CAP) for a joint Canadian-United States cross-border initiative. The project will deliver the foundations of an ...

Ten US and Mexican border states are co-operating to reduce US-Mexico border crossing times and improve security. The ten participating border states are: California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas from the US, and the Mexican states of Baja ...