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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A family of Ecuadorean immigrants has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the owners of a New Haven bakery shop where they worked of sexually and verbally abusing them for years. They also allege the owners refused to pay the minimum wage ...

Peruvian President Alan Garcia has said that the so-called Return Directive violates universal human rights and should be analyzed by the Organization of the American States (OAS). 'I read his statements and they are filled with dignity. Ecuador rejects ...

LatestNewscast US Supreme Court (file photo)The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a plea by environmentalists to stop the Bush administration from bypassing federal laws to speed construction of a fence along the border with Mexico.The high court Monday, ...

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) -- The rusty fence may divide the beaches of U.S. and Mexico, but it can't break up a yoga class. A few dozen yoga aficionados rolled out their mats Sunday on both sides of the wall between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego. The ...

WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - The Supreme Court rejected on Monday a legal challenge by two environmental groups to the U.S. Homeland Security secretary's decision to waive 19 federal laws so a fence could be built on the Arizona-Mexico border. The ...

The rusty fence may divide the beaches of U.S. and Mexico, but it can't break up a yoga class. A few dozen yoga aficionados rolled out their mats Sunday on both sides of the wall between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego. The international group stretched ...

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(AKI) - Egyptian Foreign Ministry officials have warned its citizens against using visas to Cuba in order to illegally reach and remain in Europe or the United States.According to pan-Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat on Monday, 17 Egyptian citizens have ...

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MEMPHIS, June 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Border Patrol says it's aggressively recruiting young blacks in an effort to fill its ranks and change its culture. The nation's biggest federal law enforcement agency is looking to beef up its ranks to from 16,200 to ...

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The United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, says threats by Afghanistan to pursue Taliban insurgents across the border into Pakistan are not wise.Dr Rice is calling for cooperation between the two nations after Afghan President, Hamid Karzai ...

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What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law. Amazingly, that is happening now - to some degree. This trend may already be shrinking the flood across the Mexican border and have a ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview aired Sunday that threats by Afghanistan to pursue Taliban insurgents across the border into Pakistan were 'not wise.' Rice instead called for cooperation between the two ...

By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press EL PASO Death threats had become routine for Blanca Angelica Parra, a police officer in Ciudad Juarez until the summer of 1995. 'In Juarez when you arrested someone they would threaten you, they were going to kill ...

By that, Fried was referring to the Caucasus: specifically, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia -- three very different states that share similar problems. All are struggling to quell internal separatist conflicts, to establish independent judicial ...

Joseph Nevins, Associate Professor of Geography at Vassar College. He is the author of several books including A Not-So-Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor and The Rise of the Illegal Alien and the Making of the US-Mexico Boundary. His latest ...

QUINCY, MASS. - On a proud December day, Nancy Hanna raised her right hand in the John F. Kennedy Library in Dorchester and took the oath of U.S. citizenship. Then she rushed home to call her congressman: She told him she wanted her husband back. Hanna ...