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Immigrants face the problem of adjusting to a new country, which is all the more difficult at the holidays. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Los Angeles, some immigrants in the United States are helping recent arrivals and finding fulfillment in the process. ...

MIAMI _ Five Cuban men came ashore on Hollywood beach Thursday morning and have been detained by U.S. Border Patrol, officials said. The men, between the ages of 20 and 40, came ashore about 7 a.m. in a johnboat with a small outboard engine, a Hollywood ...

Text Only Latest Newscast In 2007, the number of Cubans caught at sea while trying to enter the United States surged to a 13-year high. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports more Cubans are leaving the island illegally because of obstacles to legal ...

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Previous State and Private Studies Over-Estimated Tax Receipts and Under-Estimated Costs All across Iowa, as ordinary citizens meet face-to-face with the people who are vying for the nation's highest political office, the issue of illegal immigration is ...

(AP) Republican Fred Thompson said Thursday there should be few if any exceptions when it comes to enforcing U.S. immigration laws, or the flow of illegal immigrants would continue. Thompson was responding to a question from a man who told of a friend ...

As nine Eastern and Central European countries join Schengen today, they are under pressure to toughen long-abused visa policies. By Jeffrey White | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor He taught English illegally for four years on 90-day ...

A Norfolk man has been sentenced to 15 months in a US jail after he pleads guilty to forging visa applications for UK families. ...

He was the only official in the Bush Administration supporting federalisation of the Northern Marianas' immigration system. Thu, 20 Dec 2007 SAIPAN, CNMI ---- A United States Interior Department official, who drafted one of the bills federalising the ...

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The embassy said it has upped its fees from US$100 (Z$150 000 000) to US$131 (Z$196 500 000) with effect from January 1, 2008. An embassy statement said: 'The U.S. State Department has increased non-immigrant visa fees worldwide to absorb costs related ...

As the Indian-American couple Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani await their sentencing after being convicted of slavery, their two victims hailing from Indonesia may get American citizenship. Currently, Samirah and Enung are being looked after by Catholic ...

PHOENIX (AP) - A federal judge said Tuesday he is leaning against temporarily blocking enforcement of a new Arizona law penalizing businesses that employ illegal immigrants. U.S. District Judge Neil Wake did not rule, but he told lawyers in the case that ...

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YORK, PA. - An immigration judge here released an Islamic leader from Pittsburgh on $5,000 bail Wednesday while he fights an effort to deport him to Turkey after having lived here for 19 years. The case of the imam, Kadir Gunduz, 48, has upset not only ...

(CEP News) Ottawa - The strengthened loonie led to predictable travel patterns in October with same-day car travel to the U.S. by Canadians hitting its highest level in almost seven years, while similar travel by Americans to Canada hit an all-time low. ...

NEW YORK: As the Indian American couple Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani await their sentencing after being convicted of 'modern day slavery', their two victims hailing from Indonesia may be on the road to becoming United States citizens. Currently, Samirah ...

Immigration Specialist. , a nonpartisan group based in Washington, D.C., used U.S. census data to estimate that since 2000 alone, 10.3 million immigrants have arrived in the United Statesthe highest seven-year period of immigration in American history. ...

NEW YORK -- A new report showed Wednesday that immigrant children are five times more likely to suffer from lead poisoning than U.S.-born children in New York City. The study in the January issue of the American Journal of Public Health also found that ...

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