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PHOENIX - A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking to block a new Arizona law that prohibits people from hiring illegal immigrants and requires businesses to verify whether applicants are eligible for employment. The law takes effect Jan. 1. In ...

WASHINGTON - A crackdown by scores of U.S. states and municipalities on illegal immigration threatens the competitiveness of businesses across the country, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce report said on Friday. The report looked at more than 1,500 measures ...

NEW YORK - December 7 - The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should upgrade its care and treatment of immigrant detainees with HIV, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The organization charged that the agency has failed to meet ...

-- The Bush administration warned landowners along the southern border Friday that it will seize their property if they refuse to cooperate with federal efforts to build a fence designed to slow illegal immigration. Homeland Security Secretary Michael ...

springs, Texas is a small town - population 1,200 - with a tough battle on its hands. It's an old wool-shipping center where God, church and the border are at the center of life. The Edwards County Sheriff's Office keeps watch over the city with just ...

The head of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee is calling on President Bush to commute the prison sentences of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted for shooting a fleeing drug suspect in Texas. Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Bill Delahunt called ...

Following unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Patrick Shen was sworn in Nov. 13, 2007, as Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Previously, Mr. Shen was ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A crackdown by scores of U.S. states and municipalities on illegal immigration threatens the competitiveness of businesses across the country, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce report said on Friday. The report looked at more than 1,500 ...

WASHINGTON - A crackdown by scores of U.S. states and municipalities on illegal immigration threatens the competitiveness of businesses across the country, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce report said on Friday. The report looked at more than 1,500 measures ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Felipe Calderon on Friday told Mexican consuls to the U.S. and Canada that they must work to 'neutralize' anti-immigrant attitudes north of the border. Calderon's instructions came two days after he accused U.S. presidential ...

Government Neglecting Healthcare Needs of Ill Detainees (New York, December 7, 2007) The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should upgrade its care and treatment of immigrant detainees with HIV, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ...

PM SEATTLE, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of U.S. State Legislators, including Texas State Senator Eliot Shapleigh of El Paso, recently learned first-hand how the Canada-U.S. Border works. As participants on the Canada Border Security Tour, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa: Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee proposes to stop illegal immigration with a Mexico border fence, more border patrol agents and forcing illegal immigrants to go home before they can return. Released Friday, Huckabee's plan ...

(AP) Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee proposes to stop illegal immigration with a Mexico border fence, more border patrol agents and forcing illegal immigrants to go home before they can return. Released Friday, Huckabee's plan takes a tough ...

MEXICO CITY - President Felipe Calderon on Friday told Mexican consuls to the U.S. and Canada that they must work to 'neutralize' anti-immigrant attitudes north of the border. Calderon's instructions came two days after he accused U.S. presidential ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. A panel of students, faculty and administrators is proposing charging in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students at Oregon's public universities. The idea didn't get to the last Legislature but is being discussed through Friday ...

From 1965 to 1973, while the U.S. government was engaged in a brutal war against the people of Vietnam, more than 50,000 draft-age men from the U.S. fled to Canada, refusing to participate in what they considered an immoral war. Then, Canadian Prime ...

TECATE, California: The tunnel opening cut into the floor of a shipping container here drops three levels, each accessible by ladders, first a metal one and then two others fashioned from wood pallets. The tunnel stretches 1,300 feet to the south, ...

PHILADELPHIA A doctor and his wife who were ordered deported because of a long-ago error on their immigration paperwork have been granted an indefinite reprieve, authorities and their lawyer said Thursday. Deportation proceedings against Dr. Pedro ...