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Citizenship applications surged this year before a fee riseHundreds of thousands of people may not be able to vote in next year's US presidential election because of a huge citizenship application backlog. Hispanic leaders voiced concern over the delays ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 -- Thousands of immigrants could miss voting in their first presidential election because of a 16-month logjam in processing U.S. citizenship applications. Immigration officials at the Department of Homeland Security told the ...

WASHINGTON - A wave of citizenship applications has overwhelmed U.S. officials, leading to waits of more than a year, potentially keeping immigrants out of the voting booth for the 2008 presidential election. The U.S. agency that examines applications ...

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CLEVELAND - Sayda Umanzor was powerless to prevent her deportation, but the shy and illiterate mother from Honduras has had a forceful impact on how federal agents enforce U.S. immigration laws. Umanzor, an illegal immigrant who garnered international ...

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America's epic once-a-year buffet of deep discounts and doorcrasher sales, is expected to attract a swarm of Canadian bargain hunters to border crossings this weekend, hungry to spend their pumped-up loonies. They'll rush to the pivotal U.S. Thanksgiving ...

WASHINGTON: Immigrants who applied for U.S. citizenship after June 1 will have to wait more than a year to become Americans, immigration officials said a delay that will prevent many from voting in next November's presidential elections. The delay is ...

Wyoming's Senator Barrasso Leads on Immigration The current pandemonium over driver's licenses for illegals bodes particularly ill for Democrats, in a surprising contrast from the political landscape of only a few months ago. And the situation could ...

WASHINGTON Immigrants who applied for U.S. citizenship after June 1 will have to wait more than a year to become Americans, immigration officials said a delay that will prevent many from voting in next November's presidential elections. The delay is ...

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The Alberta government is pleased that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has eliminated the final border barrier on the import of older cattle, bison and their meat products nearly five years after the discovery of Bovine Spongiform ...

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PHOENIX -- Smugglers who bring illegal immigrants into the U.S. are getting crucial help from seemingly legitimate businesses that supply them with cars, lodging, plane tickets and other services, knowing full well what's going on. Investigators say the ...

The barrier, erected on the back of security issues, has devastating implications for wildlife. In the photographs taken by motion-sensitive cameras set in a remote wilderness area near the Arizona-Mexico border in late 2004, the big cat crosses the ...

Venezuela's President Chavez offers George W. Bush to seek help in asylum Russia's PRAVDA (Dmitry Sudakov): Chavez blasted the US and Spanish leaders visiting Paris and Lisbon, ITAR--TASS reports. The Venezuelan President stated in Paris that George W. ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Five Spanish-speaking immigrants have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a requirement that workers only speak English on the job at a Deep River machine shop. The five, who are in this country legally, have filed a discrimination suit ...

What has become a regular exodus of Canadians riding the strong loonie across the border is expected to peak later this week as U.S. retailers brace for the traditional Black Friday kickoff to the Christmas shopping season. In a way, the lineups of buses ...

Venezuelan President released another attention-catching remark about his long-time foe U.S. President George W. Bush. Chavez also attacked Spanish King Juan Carlos I, with whom he had recently come into conflict in Chile's capital Santiago. Chavez ...