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SANTA ANA, California (AP) - Wanted: Illegal immigrants with clean records who have ignored court orders to leave the United States. Immigration officials are standing by to help you leave the country. No jail. No joke. That invitation drew hardly any ...

The U.S. central bank's board gathers on Tuesday to decide what to do with its bellwether fed funds rate, currently set at two per cent. Depending on the data one looks at, economic indicators show either a weak U.S. economy on the knife's edge of a ...

United States immigration laws permit foreign workers to enter the U.S. to meet labor demands, and the legal status of these workers is tied to their employers. Whether the foreign worker on an H-1B specialty occupation visa or is being petitioned by ...

The US-Mexico cross-border truck scheme has been canned and re-authorised so often, Sharon Gill wonders if the truckers know whether they're coming or going ... Less than a week after commending the House Transportation & Infrastructure ...

MEXICO CITY (AFP) Mexicans look into the US on the beach in Tijuana. Mexicans who migrate annually to the United States change their sex habits significantly on arrival there, and increase their risk of catching HIV/AIDS, according to a ...

Are mounting regs in the U.S. discouraging you from hauling across the border? Yes. It's not worth it anymore No. Business is still good Not yet. But getting more frustrated by the day WASHINGTON -- Need another reason to avoid crossing the U.S. border? ...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT - Over the objections of a prosecutor, a judge set bond for a Canadian citizen who is charged with trying to sneak more than 50,000 ecstasy pills into the United States. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Leibson wanted Adwar ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) _ Wanted: Illegal immigrants with clean records who have ignored court orders to leave the country. Immigration officials are standing by to help you leave the country. No jail. No joke. That invitation drew no takers Tuesday on ...

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Wanted: Illegal immigrants with clean records who have ignored court orders to leave the country. Immigration officials are standing by to help you leave the country. No jail. No joke. The launched a pilot self-deportation program on Tuesday. That ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Immigrant children of all backgrounds get even less vigorous exercise than their U.S.-born counterparts, the largest study of its kind suggests. BLOG SQUAD: Advice from doctor who works with obese children HEALTH BLOG: The skinny on ...

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Last week, I wrote about what appears to be a ghastly hate crime in the small town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, where teenagers allegedly beat to death a 25-year-old illegal immigrant named Luis Ramirez after spewing racial slurs and telling him to go ...

Talent acquisition leaders are used to working under pressure, but there?s little doubt that the guy in the hot seat is Joe Abbott, director of National Recruitment Human Resources Management for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In May 2006, ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) _ When federal agents raided the offices of the Kaweah Indian Nation, Malcolm Webber told the arresting officer he had not committed fraud and was confused how he could be arrested on 'sovereign soil,' court documents show.Now, almost ...

Tegucigalpa, Aug 5 (EFE).- A group of 12 Cubans reached Honduras' Caribbean coast almost two weeks after having set sail from the communist island, the local press reported Tuesday. The undocumented migrants arrived on Sunday in a fishing boat near the ...

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Last week, I wrote about what appears to be a ghastly hate crime in the small town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, where teenagers allegedly beat to death a 25-year-old illegal immigrant named Luis Ramirez after spewing racial slurs and telling him to go ...

CHICAGO (AP) _ Many immigrant children get even less vigorous exercise than their U.S.-born counterparts, the largest study of its kind suggests. Plenty of earlier evidence shows that U.S. children are pretty inactive. The new study of nearly 70,000 ...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - The United States began a pilot program on Tuesday that allows some illegal immigrants to come forward and schedule their own deportation, after criticism that stepped-up raids cause traumatic family splits. Immigration -- principally ...