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PATERSON, N.J. - In the weeks and months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, few Muslim leaders were more active than Imam Muhammad Qatanani in reaching out to other religious groups and law enforcement authorities with a message of openness and ...

The centers represent the next step in American efforts to get the two countries to work together to combat Taliban and al-Qaida fighters who take refuge in the region. Afghan and Pakistani military officers will be able to watch live video feeds from ...

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The centers represent the latest step in American efforts to get Afghanistan and Pakistan to coordinate in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida. The countries have a history of rocky relations, though ties have recently grown warmer. The military ...

HOUSTON Mayra Figueroa a naturalized U.S. citizen, community organizer and licensed driver had no reason to fear being arrested, no need to worry about deported. Then she was pulled over by a Houston police officer, who told her he found it suspicious ...

The Travel Industry Association (TIA) and the Travel Business Roundtable expressed concern that new rules issued today by the Department of Homeland Security regarding documents needed to cross the U.S.-Canada border are not accompanied by a credible ...

Tensions created by Prince William County's crackdown on illegal immigration were on awkward display this week, when a community meeting hosted by police and the Mexican consulate produced new frustrations among immigrants -- and among the county's top ...

A Law.com news story on solos reports 'While some may shy away from its less-than-glamorous trappings, others are attracted to the idea of building a career unique to their own interests, time constraints and even whims, without the restrictions a larger ...

Commenting on today's Independent Asylum Commission report which attacks the UK's asylum system as 'shameful', Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg said: 'This Government has combined incompetence and inhumanity to create one of Europe's most inefficient ...

03/28/2008 (CNA) Taipei, March 28 (CNA) Taichung Mayor Jason Hu presented an honorary citizen certificate and medal to U.S. citizen Steve L. Martin Thursday in recognition of his contributions to the promotion of Chinese martial arts and Taiwan-U.S. ...

Criticism by federal legislators is mounting against Indian outsourcing firms that use the H-1B visa foreign worker program to staff their U.S. operations. Critics claim that the Indian firms skirt regulations and use the visas to train workers in the ...

An 85-year-old Canadian war veteran living on the Canada-U.S. border is again feeling pressure from American homeland security officials. Nikolai Pedersen's property is in New Brunswick, but the road that leads to his farm is on the? U.S. side of the ...

troops to its US border to tackle mounting violence between drugs gangs that has left hundreds of people dead, authorities say. The troops, including 425 federal police and 100 agents from the attorney general's office, will be sent to Juarez city in ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Helicopters were bringing 2,000 Mexican troops into the U.S.-Mexican border city of Juarez on Friday to quell a wave of drug-related violence blamed for 200 deaths since January, the city's mayor said. 'Two rival drug cartels ...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, March 28 (Reuters) - Hundreds of camouflage-clad Mexican troops flew into the northern city of Ciudad Juarez on Friday to quell a surge in drug gang murders across the border from El Paso, Texas. Part of a 2,500-strong army and ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Jayson Ahern and Director-General Robert Verrue, of the European Commission's (EC) Taxation and Customs Union Directorate (TAXUD), adopted the U.S.-EU Joint Customs Cooperation Committee (JCCC) ...

Here?s the sort of thing you just can?t make up: A March 22 Associated Press story in the Raleigh (NC) News & Observer with the headline, ?Nine arrested in immigration raid.? The suspects, ?from Indonesia, Mexico and Guatemala,? were ...

(CNN) -- U.S. Marine Cpl. Mario Ramos-Villalta put on his freshly pressed uniform early Thursday as a citizen of El Salvador. By the end of the day, he would be a citizen of the United States of America. Mario Ramos-Villalta earned U.S. citizenship ...

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The U.S. financial industry needs reform in the immigration rules to ensure that it can compete for talent, says an industry trade association. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association is calling for changes to the visa allocation ...