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SAN DIEGO - The deputy police chief of the Mexican border town of Tecate was gunned down in his home yesterday, one day after the discovery of a cross-border tunnel that authorities believe was used for drug smuggling.Jose Juan Soriano Pereira, 35, who ...

DES MOINES: If there is one issue that has challenged presidential candidates of both parties in Iowa this year, it is immigration, and the Democratic contenders were confronted with it again Tuesday, in a provocative way. Should American citizens, they ...

County and city leaders from several Virginia jurisdictions have formed a group to push for tougher measures against illegal immigrants, the latest sign that local governments in the state will look for ways to act while immigration reform remains ...

(CNN) -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Tuesday fired a landscaping company that worked at his home in Boston after he said he learned it employs illegal immigrants. 'I am disappointed that our relationship must end on this note,' Romney ...

DALLAS Federal agents who track down fugitives on immigration charges arrested more than 30,000 people nationally in fiscal year 2007, nearly double the previous year's total, officials said Tuesday. Agents on the fugitive operations teams focus on ...

DALLAS-Federal agents who track down fugitives on immigration charges arrested more than 30,000 people nationally in fiscal year 2007, nearly double the previous year's total, officials said. Agents on the fugitive operations teams focus on finding ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. customs officials announced Tuesday that immigration law enforcement officers who track down criminal illegal aliens and immigration fugitives made nearly twice as many arrests in the 2007 fiscal year than in the ...

Mitt Romney has a 'sanctuary mansion' no more. The former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential candidate has formally cut ties with the landscaping company that manicures his lawn, after it was reported that the company continued to employ ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday fired a landscaping company for using illegal immigrants to work on his lawn, a week after a tussle with rival Rudy Giuliani over the issue. Romney said in a statement ...

(CNSNews.com) - As former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee climbs in the polls in the GOP presidential race, some of his Republican Party opponents are criticizing his record on illegal immigration as being un-conservative and not in line with what American ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) _ Federal immigration authorities arrested twice as many illegal immigrants in New Jersey this year compared to last year, according to new figures released Tuesday by federal authorities. Of the 2,079 people arrested on immigration ...

By Deborah Perelman, eWEEK Sen. Chuck Grassley, long an advocate of transparency in the H-1B program, has found a new target: the Federal government. The Iowa Republican has fired off two letters to two federal agencies--the only two among the top 200 ...

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SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- You must know what's really driving the immigration debate. It's the culture, stupid. Immigration restrictionists -- and by that, I mean those who want to limit all immigration, even the legal kind -- like to pretend ...

Illegal immigration continues to be a key issue for voters and candidates one year before the U.S. presidential election. A New York Times poll conducted in Iowa shows 86 percent of Republicans and 59 percent of Democrats view immigration as a very or ...

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- You must know what's really driving the immigration debate. It's the culture, stupid. Immigration restrictionists -- and by that, I mean those who want to limit all immigration, even the legal kind -- like to pretend ...

The U.S. Border Patrol said Monday that it discovered a secret tunnel that may have been used for smuggling drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border east of San Diego. Authorities found an estimated 10,000 pounds of marijuana inside a trailer that led to the ...

MIAMI - Heightened security concerns and 'escalating protectionist rhetoric' in the United States is damaging cross-border trade with Canada, International Trade Minister David Emerson says. 'We see more and more border measures, such as fees for ...

Monterrey, Mexico, Dec 3 (EFE).- The end of service along a rail line linking southern and northern Mexico has reduced by more than half the number of Central Americans crossing this country to reach the United States, an immigrants rights organization ...

TECATE, Calif. The Border Patrol has discovered a secret tunnel that may have been used for smuggling drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border east of San Diego. Agency spokesman Matt Johnson says an agent heard noise Monday from a 30-foot trailer parked 150 ...