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Federal immigration agents in northeastern Iowa have arrested at least 300 people in a raid on the world's largest kosher meatpacking plant. U.S. Attorney Matt M. Dummermuth says the raid on the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville is the largest ...

POSTVILLE, Iowa - A raid by federal immigration officials at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant may have resulted in as many as 700 arrests, immigration officials said Monday PHOENIX: 53 illegal immigrants held against will Agents from U.S. ...

Raids by federal authorities on undocumented immigrants in Northern California panic parents and school officials as fears spread that students might be targeted. Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and other big-city mayors are denouncing the raids. ...

WASHINGTON -- As the Arctic ice cap shrinks, the Pentagon is eyeing the expanding navigable waters as possible entry points for security threats that must be monitored more closely, the chief of the U.S. Northern Command told The Associated Press. Air ...

Russia will begin to accept a range of imported U.S. livestock, including breeding cattle and bovine embryos, fattening and slaughter swine, and breeding and sports horses. Russia will also accept cattle born on or after the implementation of the 1997 ...

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Israel's decision to absorb Jewish immigrants from around the world, even though most were poor, many uneducated and the majority were fleeing oppression, is part of its amazing success story, an Israeli official who has been ...

(Associated Press WorldStream Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) WASHINGTON_As the Arctic ice cap shrinks, the Department of Defense is eyeing the expanding navigable waters as possible entry points for security threats that must be monitored more closely, the ...

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a Chinese man who sought asylum in the United States because his wife was forced to have an abortion under China's controversial family planning policy. Yi Qiang Yang and his wife had a ...

We painfully watch as a few designer polls, that falsely claim a majority of Americans support 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' or a 'path to citizenship' for illegal aliens currently in the US, get a great deal of press in the print media. The large ...

PHOENIX The group of rescued immigrants included two 13-year-old girls and a mentally disabled man. There were three women, and the rest were men, said Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Harold Sanders. Sanders said the investigation began ...

May 11: This group of illegal immigrants were held against their will in a home in Phoenix, Ariz. PHOENIX ? Arizona authorities on Sunday found 53 illegal immigrants in a Phoenix home being held against their will by suspected smugglers demanding more ...

Tegucigalpa, May. 9, 2008 (CWNews.com) - A Honduran cardinal has denounced the US plans for construction of a wall along the country's border with Mexico. Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa said that it is ironic the North American Free ...

PHOENIX (AP) - Fifty-three illegal immigrants found Sunday had been held against their will in a fortified home by suspected smugglers demanding more money, authorities said. The group of rescued immigrants included two 13-year-old girls, three women and ...

Fifty-three illegal immigrants found Sunday had been held against their will in a fortified home by suspected smugglers demanding more money, authorities said.The group of rescued immigrants included two 13-year-old girls, three women and a mentally ...

Three Rwandan rebels who confessed to the murders of a group of Western tourists, including two New Zealand women, are now seeking political asylum in the United States. The three men were extradited to the US in 2003 after being charged with the murder ...

In Mae Sot, home to many Burmese exiles and refugees, two helicopters stopped unannounced during a survey of the area This feature requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player and javascript-enabled browser. Correspondent Simon Montlake talks ...

The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote. Skip to next paragraph ...

'All the Burmese looked up at the sky in hope,' said Myo Khin, a Burmese trader who just found out from his sister that their relatives were lost in their hometown of Lapputa in the Irrawaddy delta. 'Only America and the foreign countries can save Burma ...

Ever since Fidel Castro took ill in July 2006 the number of Cuban migrants leaving the island has steadily increased. Growing numbers of Cubans without papers have been interdicted at sea, have landed on South Florida shores or shown up at entry points ...

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