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For the next six months, John McCain will be the most powerful Senator on Capitol Hill. Maverick no more, McCain should seize his newfound stature within the worlds greatest deliberative body to take five steps necessary to convince Americans that he has ...

CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. When officials in this suburban Chicago community began proposing hardline anti-illegal immigration policies last year, pro-immigrant rights activists rallied. Council meetings overflowed with thousands, mostly people who wanted to ...

BOSTON: Immigration officials have learned humanitarian lessons from a factory raid a year ago that was criticized for separating families and leaving children without proper care, the agency's director said. Most of the 361 workers arrested at ...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called a Colombian raid that killed two-dozen guerrillas in Ecuador a 'war crime' Wednesday and joined Ecuador's president in demanding international condemnation of the cross-border attack. 'We ...

-worker, $38 billion agency fails to deliver on a slew of projects Stumping for President Bush's ill-fated immigration overhaul in 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed that his department would wrest 'operational control' of the ...

WASHINGTON Republicans on Wednesday presented a large package of 15 enforcement-focused bills, many designed to shut off the flow of illegals. No provision in the package mimics the 2006 comprehensive immigration reform measures proposed by Sens. Ted ...

Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen (r) and Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the Pentagon, 05 Mar 2008 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he does not expect fighting to break out between Colombia and Venezuela, and that if it does he ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexicans living abroad sent fewer dollars home in January, reflecting the impact of a slowing U.S. economy and the crackdown on illegal immigration. Mexicans sent home $1.65 billion in the first month of the year, down 6 percent from ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. homeland security chief vowed to install more high-tech equipment along the border with Mexico and said on Wednesday the first section of a 'virtual fence' was working despite problems and delays. 'The system is now functionally ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he does not expect fighting to break out between Colombia and Venezuela, and that if it does he believes the Colombian military can successfully defend its country. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon. Joint ...

(Adds details, Chertoff comments) WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. homeland security chief vowed to install more high-tech equipment along the border with Mexico and said on Wednesday the first section of a 'virtual fence' was working despite ...

EL CALABOZ, Texas/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Standing on a grassy levee, Eloisa Tamez stares at the modest dwellings on her property near the U.S. border with Mexico and cannot imagine a wall running through it. Tamez filed a class-action suit in February ...

In January, the U.S. Immigration Service signed a pact with the Vietnamese government, agreeing to deport thousands of illegal Vietnamese immigrants who are currently under deportation orders. Prior to this pact, the Vietnamese government refused to ...

(This is the second story in a series on U.S. border fences) EL CALABOZ, Texas/WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - Standing on a grassy levee, Eloisa Tamez stares at the modest dwellings on her property near the U.S. border with Mexico and cannot imagine a ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. homeland security chief vowed to install more high-tech equipment along the border with Mexico and said on Wednesday the first section of 'virtual fence' was working despite problems and delays. 'The system is now functionally ...

CARACAS (AFP)--Venezuela's Defense Minister Gustavo Rangel on Wednesday said Caracas' deployment of troops toward the Colombian border was aimed at countering a U.S. expansionist drive. Rangel told a press conference that 10 batallions of troops were ...

ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: As Sen. John McCain was making the Republican rounds in Washington on his first day as the official presumptive presidential nominee, appearing unified with his party at the White House and the Republican National Committee, ...

PMWASHINGTON, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- County officials along the U.S./Mexico border say the cost of apprehending, arresting and convicting undocumented immigrants is crippling their courts and the region's entire criminal justice system. In a ...

Posted by: Michael Hammond in: H-1(b) News, USCIS On Feb 4th, the USCIS issued a new policy stating that they will proceed with the adjudication of certain petitions, most notably I-485 cases if the FBI fingerprint check and IBIS check have both cleared ...

In 2006, the U.S. awarded Chicago, Illinois-based The Boeing Company a $67 million three-year contract to design and build a high-technology virtual fence to prevent illegal immigrants, drug smugglers, and terrorists from entering the United States from ...