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PRINT A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report made public today underscores the important role federal agencies particularly the Department of Homeland Security, along with the Departments of Labor and the Interior must play in ...

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In announcing today that it would extend its cross-border trucking pilot project for two more years, the Bush administration continues to flout Congress at the expense of highway safety. READPublic Citizen's statement. Because Public Citizen does not ...

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, ...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Two decades ago, the Rubashkin family of Brooklyn opened up a kosher slaughterhouse amid the cornfields of Iowa not exactly a center of Jewish culture.The bearded, fedora-wearing strangers from Brooklyn quickly transformed Postville into ...

Just west of El Paso, near where Spanish conquistador Juan de Onate crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in 1598, construction crews have completed a steel fence authorities say is a new model for border security. The five-meter (18-foot) tall fence has a ...

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over immigration reform is how to deal with the estimated 12 to 15 million illegal aliens in the United States. Supporters of 'comprehensive' reform often falsely present the issue as a choice between ...

By Paul Kiernan, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Monday he expects either Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., or Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to pass an immigration reform law quickly, whoever wins the ...

Keen to avoid a US intervention or cut-off of funds, Pakistan's government has proposed 'immediate action' by revamping its military and intelligence set up in the restive border areas with Afghanistan to counter the growing threat from al Qaeda and ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Olga Arellano sobs as she recalls how her HIV-positive daughter spent two months succumbing to infections in a U.S. migrant detention center, complaining that she didn't see a doctor or get the right medicine.Fellow inmates also begged ...

Sweet sorghum Photo: icrisat.org SANTO DOMINGO. - The Agro-industrial Complex Fnix, an alternative energy project whose expected cost is US$340 million, will improve the economy of the border provinces Montecristi, Dajabn, Santiago Rodriguez and ...

It is now being reported by several outlets that the Department of Homeland Security has been granted the power to seize travelers 'device(s) capable of storing information in digital or analog form,' including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, ...

WASHINGTON ? U.S. officials said the Bush administration has approved the sale of the M1A1 Abrams MBT to the Iraq Army. They said the sale would significantly enhance the post-Saddam Hussein military and launch efforts to help Iraq defend against enemy ...

MEXICO CITY - Olga Arellano sobs as she recalls how her HIV-positive daughter spent two months succumbing to infections in a U.S. migrant detention centre, complaining that she didn't see a doctor or get the right medicine. Fellow inmates also begged for ...

Equal parts graceful and eerie, massive brick and stone asylums once loomed over towns from Maine to California as the 19th century's ideal for the humane treatment of America's mentally ill. Ornate facades, turrets, sprawling grounds and sheer palatial ...

Voting records and campaign pronouncements are the coin of the realm for pundits trying to predict how a presidential contender will lead once he moves into the Oval Office. But presidential scholars say congressional votes and campaign promises are ...

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Many Mexican immigrants with HIV/AIDS say their country still has a repressive, sometimes brutal way of dealing with those afflicted with the virus. As a result, HIV/AIDS patients in Mexico are seeking and getting political asylum in the U.S. ...

Mexico City - The Sixth International AIDS Conference (IAC) scheduled for San Francisco in 1990 instigated boycotts that drew international attention due to the discriminatory bar on HIV-positive people traveling or immigrating to the U.S. Since that ...