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The House Judiciary Committee approved the Legal Workforce Act (HR 2164) to phase in E-Verify for all US employers over four years, with the smallest employers the last to be required to participate. Under the LWA, employers would use DHS's web-based ...

that caused over 300,000 deaths. Some Haitians moved to the neighboring Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and has perhaps 500,000 Haitian residents. The Dominican Republic was among the first countries to help Haiti ...

MEXICO CITY A total of 11 suspected gunmen died in a shootout with army troops over the weekend in a border town in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, officials said. The death toll from Saturdays gun battle in Ciudad Miguel Aleman, ...

SDLP Foyle MLA Pat Ramsey has urged people to participate in the US Visa lottery and hoped people here would spread the word to loved ones living illegally in America. ...

Fear deportation without notice under Alabama law Birmingham, Alabama: Terrified by Alabama's strict new immigration crackdown, parents living in the state illegally say they are doing something that was unthinkable just days ago asking friends, ...

The US unemployment rate averaged 9.1 percent in summer 2011, when there were about 14 million unemployed workers, including 6.2 million who were jobless six months or more. The average duration of unemployment was almost 20 weeks, and six million ...

Northern Mexico--] 38 US-bound migrants are safe after being abandoned by their coyotes, or human smugglers. The group, composed of 34 men and four women, were "walking in the harsh Sonoran desert for days." The migrants were found in two separate ...

Kirsten Dunst has officially become an international lady with both German and U.S. citizenship. "I'm now a real international lady," Dunst, 29, told the German tabloid B.Z. "One who can film in Europe without a problem." ...

- Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates. Those who advocate on the behalf of illegal aliens and open borders often characterize Americans who simply respect the rule of law and American sovereignty as racist or cold-hearted. However, ...

MIAMI Reversing a three-year trend downward, the number of undocumented Cubans intercepted at sea or who reached U.S. shores in the past 12 months soared by more than 100 percent sparking questions about the reasons behind the new trend.About 1,700 ...

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He also insisted the citizenship test for legal incomers would be rewritten to include questions on British history and signalled a fresh crackdown on forced and bogus marriages. And in future, individuals applying to come to the UK for family reasons ...

You know an issue is divisive when even the likes of Rick Perry is accused by members of his own party as being soft on the subject. So it was only a matter of time before the "South Park" guys once tackled the issue of Texas immigration. In this short ...

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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 Gov. Jerry Brown signed a host of bills that make the nation's biggest state one of the ...

Deb Maertens, assistant director of faculty immigration at NDSU, gave a presentation regarding Hispanics and immigration last Thursday in the Prairie Room of the Memorial Union. Maertens' talk was sponsored by the Division of Equity, Diversity, and ...

MANILA, Philippines - The Senate is considering granting Philippine citizenship to a 99-year-old American for her charitable work in the country and outstanding contribution in helping prisoners of war during World War II. Senate Bill 2983, introduced by ...

The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) has released a detailed rejoinder to a well-publicized study by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) that made a remarkable claim: Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly ...

All kinds of everything in bizarre passport story CATHAL DERVAN, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer Updated Monday, October 10, 2011, 7:58 AM Dana Rosemary Scanlon Photo by Collins Dana has offered to renounce her American citizenship in a bid to save her ...

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is calling for "eliminating the cap on H-1B visas" because restrictive U.S. visa policies -- particularly limitations on employment-based green cards -- are a form of "national suicide." In a speech late last month at the ...