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When Northern Virginia's Latino soccer leagues kick off the 2008 season early next month, fans of Honduras de Manassas will have to travel outside their base in Prince William County to see their team score goals. So will supporters used to watching ...

Washington (AP): Bill Gates is coming back to Capitol Hill with the same wish list he's had for years: more visas for highly skilled workers, more math, science and engineering in schools and more money for technology investment. Today, Gates' scheduled ...

Facing an effort by House Republicans to force a floor vote on a border enforcement bill, House Democratic leaders intensified efforts Tuesday to craft compromise legislation that would provide temporary visas to most illegal immigrants and revive ...

LOS ANGELES -- John McCain has been called an American hero. But is he a natural born citizen? A federal judge in California has been asked to determine if the Republican presidential candidate, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936, meets the ...

HARRISONBURG, Va. According to federal officials, the eight from Virginia, Ohio and Puerto Rico were involved in a multistate conspiracy to obtain and sell Ohio identification cards to illegal aliens. Officials said four of the accused are from Ohio and ...

WASHINGTON: Bill Gates is coming back to Capitol Hill with the same wish list he's had for years: more visas for highly skilled workers, more math, science and engineering in schools and more money for technology investment. On Wednesday, Gates' ...

An exchange of handshakes at a Latin American summit Friday marked the end of the bitter dispute that had taken place between the nations of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela over the past week. The presidents of each country agreed to end the conflict, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. A bailiff is under an internal investigation after a woman spent four days forgotten in a holding cell without food, water or a toilet. Bailiff Jarrod Hankins put Adriana Torres-Flores in the cell to await transport to jail Thursday and ...

The Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) has called on European Union (EU) home affairs ministers gathering in Slovenia to set out a clear way forward to meet the challenge of securing the EU's external borders and for the UK Government to play ...

Immigration Daily: the news source for legal professionals. Free! Join 17000+ readers Enter your email address here: Washington, DC The Honorable Manuel A. Diaz Mayor, City of Miami Miami, Florida Mayor Manuel Manny Diaz was first elected as Mayor of the ...

It is illegal to fraudulently promise someone green card and bring them to US. It is also illegal to take money from aliens in other countries and promise green card. US labor laws are clear about rights of the workers. US Congressman George Miller ...

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Cuban migrants have landed in South Florida since Oct. 1, a figure that indicates that the number of Cubans leaving the island continues to increase. The uptick in Cuban migrants was illustrated in recently released official Cuban government statistics, ...

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that the White House isn't enforcing the H-1B program, and he cited a number of abuses to it in a letter released late Monday. Among the practices Grassley pointed to in his letter is the 'leasing' of H-1B ...

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday sent a letter to the U.S. Homeland Security Dept. quizzing secretary Michael Chertoff about what progress the Bush administration has made toward H-B visa reforms. In his letter, Grassley -- the co-sponsor of a ...

(Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The number of people legally crossing the U.S.-Mexican border at San Ysidro has fallen 21.4 percent from a peak three years ago, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported on Tuesday. Economists and others attribute the steady drop to ...

L-1 Identity Solutions has been awarded the prime contract by the Department of State for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) border crossing credential, the new passport card. The contract has an estimated value of approximately US$107 ...

Immigration Fears or Fears of the End of the American Dream? KT McFarland Every week, I spend a few hours as a guest commentator on different talk radio shows around the country. Most have conservative hosts and their audiences are made up of ...

House Republicans are trying to force action on a Democratic-written immigration enforcement measure, the latest GOP attempt to elevate the volatile issue into an election-year wedge. Republican leaders hope that by pushing the bill endorsed by 48 ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters and a coalition of 69 U.S. companies and business groups on Monday urged Congress not to kill a demonstration program for long-haul Mexican trucks service because Mexican retaliation could harm U.S. exports. ...