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The Obama administration's challenge to a strict Alabama immigration law escalated when the U.S. Department of Justice requested a federal appeals court to block the law from going into effect. The Justice Department's bid for an injunction on a law it ...

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LUSAKA, Zambia -- Zambia's new leader says he won't visit Malawi until he gets an apology for being deported from the neighboring country when he was an opposition chief in 2007, a very public signal that he wants a change in regional relations. In a ...

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, relatives, co-workers and acquaintances to take their children if they're ...

DAYTON, Ohio At a time when the trend among state legislatures is to create tough immigration laws, one Ohio city is pinning its ambitions on an opposite track. Dayton, with a population of about 140,000, wants to become the friendliest place for ...

SURREY, B.C. - An American man who told Canadian border officers he was moving to Alaska with his children has been arrested at the Surrey, B.C., border crossing. Canada Border Services officers questioned the man when he arrived at the border with his ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Illegal immigrants can now apply for state-funded scholarships and aid at state universities after Gov. Jerry Brown announced Saturday that he has signed the second half of a legislative package focused on such students. AB131 by ...

A dream came true Saturday for California's college-bound illegal immigrants.Signing the California Dream Act into law, Gov. Jerry Brown made it possible for students living in the country without documentation to be eligible for state financial aid at ...

The U.S. Department of State will be accepting applications for the 2013 Diversity Visa Lottery programme from October 4, 2011 to November 5, 2011. Each year, the Diversity Visa Lottery programme makes 55,000 permanent resident visas available to ...

Ammo seizures chart Every year, thousands of guns are smuggled into Mexico from the United States, fueling the brutal drug-cartel wars and stirring outrage on both sides of the border. But often overlooked in the controversy are the tons of bullets that ...

Demonstrators storm Syrian embassy in Berlin New Zealand oil slick clean-up swings into action More bodies turn up in Mexico gang war MIAMI - As many as 2,000 children have stopped going to public schools in Alabama as the toughest ...

Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that it needed to overhaul the detention of noncitizens in unnecessary detention and pledged to reform the immigration detention system. A new report issued October 6th by Human Rights ...

The bulk of the law, the nation's strictest, is now in effect. Some praise it as 'attrition through enforcement'; others see a humanitarian crisis. Alabama's estimated 130,000 illegal immigrants are worried. They are confused. And in some cases, they ...

- Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates. Ethnic Cleansing in Alabama? Democrats and others are questioning the morality of a controversial new Alabama immigration law that would deny undocumented immigrants water service. The new law makes it a ...

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California Governor Jerry Brown speaks after vetoing the budget passed the day before by state legislators in Los Angeles (LUCY NICHOLSON, REUTERS / October 8, 2011) X Greg Lucas Reuters SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday ...

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>>> potential road block to alabama 's new controversial immigration law widely considered to be the toughest in the country. let's go to washington's justice correspondent pete williams to break it down for us. >> reporter: the government would like to ...

- Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates. Last July, President Barack Obama's own National Security Council conducted a study -- and formulated a plan -- regarding drug trafficking and drug trafficking networks. Unfortunately, the NSC report turned ...

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