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WASHINGTON (AFP)--President George W. Bush argued Sunday that new U.S. regulations for nationals of U.S. visa-waiver countries who want to visit the United States should make trips easier, and not more cumbersome. 'As to whether we have made it harder ...

President George W Bush has argued that new US regulations for nationals of US visa-waiver countries who want to visit the United States should make trips easier, and not more cumbersome. 'As to whether we have made it harder for visa-waiver countries ...

The Honolulu Passport Agency has urged U.S. nationals and citizens hoping to travel abroad next year to apply for passports now.Nancy K. Finn, regional director of the Passport Agency, said the amount of time required to obtain a passport is expected to ...

NORWICH, Conn. - Juan Garcia goes to Kino Envios about every week to send money home to his wife and 14-month-old son in Mexico City. He transfers about $400 to his family. Because his wife stays home to take care of their son, that is nearly all money ...

Yesenia Rangel, 12, looked out her window on a Friday morning in February and saw several officers with the letters 'ICE' on their sleeves. Yesenia immediately called her neighbors to warn them that immigration officers were outside their Compton ...

IRAPUATO, MEXICO - Antonio Martinez used to pay smugglers thousands of dollars each year to sneak him into the U.S. to manage farm crews. Now, the work comes to him. Supervising lettuce pickers in central Mexico, Martinez earns just half of the $1,100 a ...

CANCUN, Mexico-Mexico's navy says it has detained 34 Cuban migrants who were in a yacht off Cancun's coast. Lt. Wilberth Vargas says navy personnel found 28 men, four women and two children Friday during a routine patrol near the Mexican resort. Vargas ...

The Los Angeles Times recently reported that the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is not only catching illegal immigrants as they try to enter the US, but also those illegals attempting to leave the US. CBP has set up checkpoints at various places ...

ST. LOUIS -- A group of Muslim immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship sued federal officials on Friday, claiming they've been left in limbo for months or years because of slow background checks. The class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 33 plaintiffs ...

Washington, June 7 : Western military officers and diplomats are of the opinion that relations between the US military and the Pakistan Army were now at their worst point since 9/11, 2001, because of Pakistan's insistence of deploying its troops along ...

ST. LOUIS - A group of Muslim immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship sued federal officials on Friday, claiming they've been left in limbo for months or years because of slow background checks. The class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 33 plaintiffs ...

Canada is about to prove itself good friends with movie studios and record companies, trying to pass the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) we?ve been hearing about for the past few months. The idea behind this proposed international agreement ...

Laredo Mayor Advocates Long-Term Solution to Immigration, Homeland Security Challenges on US-Mexico Border By Laredo (TX) Mayor Raul Salinas June 2, 2008 For years, my predecessors, Mayor Saul Ramirez and Mayor Betty Flores, have traveled to Washington ...

PLAINFIELD, N.J. - A group opposed to illegal immigration is using federal anti-corruption laws to sue a New Jersey property manager for allegedly renting apartments to undocumented immigrants. The Immigration Reform Law Institute is suing ...

USCM Policy on Comprehensive Immigration Reform   WHEREAS, our federal immigration system is broken and has become mismatched to the economic and social realities of cities; and WHEREAS, the existing system has created waiting lists for most ...

EASTSOUND, Wash. - Pedro Perez has not left Orcas Island in more than four months. Not for weekend trips with his family, not for cheaper groceries on the mainland, not for medical care - not for anything. He is afraid border agents will stop him and ...

eborah HowellOmbudsmanThe Washington Post1150 15th St. NWWashington, D.C. 20071 I write to lodge a formal complaint about the series of articles published this week in The Washington Post about detention healthcare. Disguised as objective investigative ...

LA JOYA, Texas (AP) -- Local police are accustomed to dealing with illegal border crossings but were astounded by the video of 15 Chinese immigrants unfolding themselves from the back of a sport-utility vehicle near this small border town. The SUV ...

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TRENTON, N.J. - A group opposed to illegal immigration is using federal anti-corruption laws to sue a New Jersey property manager for allegedly renting apartments to undocumented immigrants. The Immigration Reform Law Institute is suing Plainfield-based ...