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Preeta Bansal is the second lawyer I'm recognizing from the just released National Law Journal list of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America. The Indian-born Bansal heads the appellate litigation department at Skadden Arps, one of the ...

A trenchant editorial by New York Times prophesies that the largest toll of an unjust immigration policy is the undercutting of our national identity itself. 'Someday, the country will recognize the true cost of its war on illegal immigration. We don?t ...

MANILA ? The U.S. has rejected former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn ?JocJoc? Bolante?s request for political asylum, according to a press statement from Malacanang. Malacanang said it is not worried about the possible homecoming of Bolante ...

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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Baghdad - Hundreds of people loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr protested the long-term Iraqi-US security pact on Friday, while Iranian forces shelled two border villages it claimed harboured a militant Kurdish nationalist group based in ...

The effort in Congress to make it easier for tech companies to hire foreign nationals gained support Thursday from two U.S. senators who are pushing a bill to give foreign nationals who earn advanced degrees in the U.S. permanent residency. The latest ...

Gujrat (Pakistan), June 6 : US troops are not violating the sanctity of Pakistani borders while using pilotless drones to hit Al-Qaeda hideouts in the country's tribal areas, Pakistan Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar has said. Apparently justifying the ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas Texas native Monica Castro accuses the U.S. Border Patrol of refusing to release her daughter to her when the girl's father was arrested in December 2003. Despite proving the child was born in the U.S., Castro says officials took ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas Texas native Monica Castro accuses the U.S. Border Patrol of refusing to release her daughter to her when the girl's father was arrested in December 2003. Despite proving the child was born in the U.S., Castro says officials took ...

The top U.S. immigration enforcement official told a congressional subcommittee yesterday that the Bush administration will disclose more information about foreigners who die in the sprawling network of federal detention centers around the country. Julie ...

? Media Center Video Immigration News In a post on its public policy blog, on 5 June 2008, Google voiced its desire to see the U.S. government raise the 'artificially low' H-1B visa cap. The Internet search giant submitted 300 H-1B visa ...

Ottawa, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina) The Canadian Parliament's House of Commons approved an initiative Wednesday, that if ratified, would give asylum to US defectors from joining the Army for the occupation and war in Iraq in Canada. The approval of the project ...

OTTAWA (AP) - Parliament's lower house passed a nonbinding motion Tuesday allowing U.S. military deserters to stay in Canada, but the Conservative government was expected to ignore the vote. The opposition parties banded together to bypass ...

Arthur Mkoyan, 17, and his family are set for deportation 10 days after graduation The family says they left Armenia in 1992 fearing for their lives Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the family has no legal basis to stay (CNN) -- A high school ...

Federal law enforcement agencies have increased criminal prosecutions of immigration violators to record levels, in part by filing minor charges against virtually every person caught illegally crossing some stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, according ...

Editor's Note: The term 'historic' is applied far too loosely to events that some authors wish to magnify in importance. But the vote by the Canadian parliament to give U.S. war resisters asylum and Canadian citizenship is worthy of the term. After all, ...

Senate bill would allow advance degree holders to get green cards Share Top Stories June 5, 2008 (Computerworld) WASHINGTON -- The effort in Congress to make it easier for tech companies to hire foreign nationals gained support today from two U.S. ...

Immigration Daily: the news source for legal professionals. Free! Join 17000+ readers Enter your email address here: The old adage of the more things change, the more they remain the same still holds some truth. Public perceptions still have a strong ...