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By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press Writer CNSNews.com May 02, 2008 El Paso, Texas (Associated Press) - Josefa Gonzalez Loya has sneaked across the Mexican border at least 128 times in the past eight years. And each time, the Border Patrol has been ...

Eager to become an American citizen? Don't move to the Washington region. Try Omaha. The federal agency that handles immigration paperwork has been rolling out tidbits of good -- or less bad -- news about last summer's deluge of naturalization ...

Eager to become an American citizen? Don't move to the Washington region. Try Omaha. The federal agency that handles immigration paperwork has been rolling out tidbits of good -- or less bad -- news about last summer's deluge of naturalization ...

" E-mail Father Jonathan Yesterday, May Day, we witnessed some of the largest demonstrations of immigrants on American soil. The masses of mostly brown skinned activists and their followers were protesting what they consider unjust immigration policy and ...

Thousands of employers are scrambling this week to file H-1B visa petitions in hopes that the U.S. government will approve their applications to hire foreign tech workers in fiscal 2009. InformationWeek analyzed the list of companies that had their H-1B ...

ANKARA, Turkey Mehmet Ali Agca also wants to be transferred to a prison in Poland to serve the remainder of his term, lawyer Haci Ali Ozhan told The Associated Press. Ozhan said he submitted Agca's application for Polish citizenship to the Polish Embassy ...

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This updated Spotlight takes a detailed look at the statistics on admissions of foreign nationals who come to the United States on a temporary (i.e., nonimmigrant) visa. The data are from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration ...

When it comes to illegal immigration, the American people are tired of thirty years of lip service. They want our laws enforced. As secretary of homeland security, I have directed my department to pursue that mandate, using all the tools permitted by ...

Greg Siskindis a partner in Siskind Susser's Memphis, Tennessee, office. After graduating magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University, he received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago. Mr. Siskind is a member of AILA, a board member of the ...

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A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Tuesday 'grew increasingly impatient and sometimes angry' while listening to arguments from government lawyers in an asylum case concerning three women who underwent female ...

Related Topics Story Tools -+ Change font size Share This Story Story tools presented by Canada's major automakers praised the federal and provincial governments yesterday for their plan to build a new highway through Windsor to the U.S. border. The ...

DENVER: Six exchange students from Afghanistan studying at US high schools have sought asylum in Canada over the last month, officials said. The situation came to light after one of the students, Mesbah Habibi, seemed to disappear on Monday after he ...

A Pittsburgh computer consultancy is paying $45,000 in civil penalties over claims it discriminated against legal US residents by advertising only for developers on H-1B visas. The case was brought against iGate Mastech for placing an ad for 30 ...

var addthis_pub = 'itw'; A U.S. provider of outsourcing and IT services has agreed to pay civil penalties of US$45,000 to settle allegations that it discriminated against U.S. residents when attempting to hire foreign workers holding H-1B visas, the U.S. ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The U.S. government fined a consulting firm $45,000 for placing online job ads for computer programmers that said only H1-B visa holders should apply. The case is just the tip of an iceberg of H1-B abuses, according to a lobbying group ...

Popular American actor, who discovered his genetic link to the Mende people of Sierra Leone, will earn his Sierra Leonean citizenship this month. Isaiah Washington's DNA test suggested his maternal ancestry traces back to Sierra Leone and that he is ...

Governor Mark Sanford said the time is now for citizens who care about real immigration reform to make their voices heard about the need for reform. 'By stripping out the e-verify requirement last night, the Senate has taken out the single most effective ...

American employers cannot find enough highly skilled workers to fill essential positions. There are not enough American workers with advanced skills in computer, engineering, and mathematical occupations to perform the work that many high-tech companies ...