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In an effort to regain control over the most rugged, remote portions of the nation's boundaries, U.S. Border Patrol agents are increasingly turning to horses. Agents say the animals are sturdy and much more suited to the types of terrain being used to ...

These petitions can only be filed for an H-1B start date of October 1, 2008 or later.... ...

CG Repatriates 23 Cuban Migrants U.S. Coast Guard | PO. Barry Bena | January 24, 2008 MIAMI - The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Cobia repatriated 26 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cubaas, Cuba, Thursday. The migrants were interdicted during two separate ...

Summary: A USA Today article described John McCain as 'a maverick senator from the West' who has taken 'maverick stands, including votes against Bush's tax cuts in 2001' and 'his sponsorship last year of an immigration bill that included a path to ...

Gene Johnson, THE ASSOCIATED PRESSSEATTLE - A U.S. federal jury convicted a former immigration inspector Thursday of accepting sex from a Canadian prostitute in exchange for giving her a free pass when she crossed the border. But the border guard, ...

The uproar over illegal immigration seemed to have cooled after a fiery year in which President George W. Bush's reform bill collapsed in Congress and Gov. Eliot Spitzer's driver's-license plan for the undocumented crashed and burned. But pollsters ...

SEATTLE -- A U.S. federal jury convicted a former immigration inspector yesterday of accepting sex from a Canadian prostitute in exchange for giving her a free pass when she crossed the border. But the border guard, Desmone Bastian, 31, 'dodged a major ...

AM The US has urged the Egyptian government to secure its border with Gaza after thousands of beleaguered Gazans crossed over to Egypt to buy food, fuel and other essential supplies that have become scarce in coastal strip.Palestinian militants blew up ...

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SEATTLE (AP) -- A federal jury convicted a former immigration inspector Thursday of accepting sex from a Canadian prostitute in exchange for giving her a free pass when she crossed the border. But the border guard, Desmone Bastian, 31, 'dodged a major ...

Rafah: Amid the continuing exodus of thousands of Palestinians from Israeli-blockaded Gaza, the United States has pressured Egypt to secure its border with the territory. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she understood it was 'difficult' but the ...

ST. LOUIS - Welcomed or not, a rising debate over illegal immigration has staked a prominent claim on this year's political stage. Most Republican presidential candidates talk tough about secure borders and restricted opportunities to citizenship for ...

With Dr. Norman Matloff, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis. A former database software developer in Silicon Valley, he is the author of one textbook in computer science and another in statistics, as well as several ...

ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Thursday it hoped Egypt can secure its border with Gaza in a few days but understood the problem Cairo faces as a tide of Palestinians flee the Israeli-blockaded territory. State Department spokesman Tom ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that Indonesia and Barbados have opened their borders to all U.S. beef products regardless of the age of the cattle. 'This shows that constructive and steady discussions with our trading partners are ...

OTTAWA - More than 30 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have condemned plans by the Department of Homeland Security to institute new identity requirements next week for Canadians and Americans entering the country by land or sea. In a letter ...

ALTAR VALLEY, Arizona - U.S. Border Patrol agent Galen Huffman leans over the saddle to look at faint tracks in a cattle trail leading up from the Mexico border. He follows the tracks at a brisk trot through thick brush, up and down into rocky washes, ...

JERUSALEM: A senior US diplomat said yesterday the US backed the idea of letting President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority control main border crossings in Hamas-run Gaza to help ease local hardship. Israel has tightened restrictions on the ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Controversial Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan said Wednesday that with the backing of civil rights groups he was appealing a decision by the US administration to refuse him a visa. Ramadan was forced to give up a teaching position at ...

PEARL, Miss. Detective Nick McLendon, on stakeout duty along a dark stretch of eastbound Interstate 20, noticed a red Chevy Suburban with heavily tinted windows and no light over its rear Texas license plate. The missing light gave him all the excuse he ...