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Immigration policy is likely to be a key issue of contention in the upcoming Presidential election. As the United States prepares for another year-long Presidential election campaign, the direction of federal and state immigration policy is becoming an ...

Computerworld - WASHINGTON - The White House is attempting to make it more attractive for foreign entrepreneurs to create a business in the U.S. by "clarifying" H-1B visa and green card rules. This idea of making it easier for foreign investors to create ...

Mexico City Mexican singer Pablo Montero criticized anti-illegal immigration laws that have been enacted in different parts of the United States and asked the White House to give the undocumented a little more help. The artist, who will appear in ...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's immigration chief says there has been a sharp drop in the number of Central Americans crossing Mexico to reach the U.S. Commissioner Salvador Beltran del Rio says the number of Central Americans crossing Mexico without ...

Alabama asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to allow the state to enforce much of its strict law targeting illegal immigration, and state officials tried to clear up confusion over the crackdown among court officials and police. The state said in ...

(Updates with excerpt from states filing in third paragraph.) Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- A new Alabama immigration law empowering the police to question the status of persons otherwise detained shouldnt be blocked while the U.S. government and civil ...

Catapult Technology, Ltd., a leading Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDVO) Information Technology (IT) contractor to the federal government, has won a contract to provide U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) with executive coaching services. ...

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has published a notice in the October 7, 2011 FEDERAL REGISTER and forwarded Training and Employment Notice 10-11 regarding the updated funding availability for H-1B Technical Skills Training Grants. ETA ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Non-U.S. citizens imprisoned in Texas have begun seeking expedited parole even though the system to release and deport them is not in place, officials say. A law allowing early parole for foreigners as long as they are ...

A B.C. man falsely accused and subsequently acquitted of sexual assault has been repeatedly questioned and detained at the U.S. border for being a sex offender. Leonard Walker, 61, blames the RCMP for not flagging his acquittal in the criminal records ...

- Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates. On Monday, the liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, David Cameron, urged parliament and government agencies to create tough immigration regulations and enforcement procedures to strengthen the current ...

MEXICO CITY Mexicos immigration chief says there has been a sharp drop in the number of Central Americans crossing Mexico to reach the U.S. Commissioner Salvador Beltran del Rio says the number of Central Americans crossing Mexico without documents has ...

U.S. Rep. John Lewis in an appearance at Galloway School Monday spoke about meeting civil rights leaders Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. and why he joined King's campaign despite his family's fears. In this Buckhead Patch video, he also speaks ...

In June, high-level officials in the Obama administration asked Arturo Venegas Jr. to spend his summer helping them fix America's broken immigration enforcement system.The former Sacramento police chief agreed and threw himself into the task until very ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. As states such as Alabama and Georgia make waves with a hard-line approach to illegal immigration, California took a leap in the other direction this weekend when Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed a host of bills that make the ...

The mayor of New York City is calling on lawmakers in Washington to relax the rules that allow skilled foreign workers to fill high-tech jobs in the U.S. or risk falling behind competitively. In a recent speech, Michael Bloomberg said easing green card ...

Helena Ribeiro is a PhD candidate at CUNY who volunteers for Zuccotti Park's Outreach community. She is part of an evolving team that manages, among other things, the group's social media platforms. "The Internet is the facilitator and the lubricant in ...

President Obama, through the Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, made an announcement that could have a major impact on immigration policy and the lives of millions of immigrants and their family members in the United States. The White House ...

The morning dew hasn't yet burned off the fields when Matsuda's nursery comes to life. Mexican ballads pour out of new foreman Carlos Appollinar's pickup while he and an army of workers transplant hundreds of flowers, trees and shrubs into black plastic ...

The morning dew hasn't yet burned off the fields when Matsuda's nursery comes to life.Mexican ballads pour out of new foreman Carlos Appollinar's pickup while he and an army of workers transplant hundreds of flowers, trees and shrubs into black plastic ...