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MEXICO CITY -- As was to be expected, a new U.S. congressional study saying that U.S. customs officers fail to stop thousands of undocumented workers a year at airports and other legal entry points has added fuel to U.S. anti-immigration zealots' anxiety ...

Hard at work: Kim Brown leads Jessica Phillips, Maren Brown and Ashley Osiowy on the Cochrane Girl Guides' Fall Cookie Blitz in River Heights on Saturday. by Reagen Sulewski Recently, I participated in a rich discussion of the North American community, ...

CHICAGO - Nearly two dozen illegal immigrants were arrested Wednesday, accused of using fake security badges to work in critical areas of O'Hare International Airport, including the tarmac, authorities said. The 23 illegal workers were employed by Ideal ...

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Thursday Shawwal 26, 1428 Bureau Report PESHAWAR, Nov 7: The United States is preparing a development package for towns on the border of the NWFP and tribal areas, says William M. Butterfield of the Bureau Economist of the United States' Agency for ...

Text Only Latest Newscast Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says measures, such as hiring more agents and installing hi-tech detectors, have resulted in 22 percent decrease in arrests of illegal immigrants along the southern U.S border with ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Nearly two dozen illegal immigrants were arrested Wednesday, accused of using fake security badges to work in critical areas of O'Hare International Airport, including the tarmac, authorities said. The 23 illegal workers were employed by ...

LOS ANGELES -- A couple accused of posing as sheriff's deputies to rob illegal immigrants, the elderly and schoolchildren were arrested after real detectives spotted them trying to shake down a boy, authorities said Wednesday. Steve Leo, 34, and Sabrina ...

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WASHINGTON Nicolas Sarkozy made a minor gaffe on his first U.S. visit as France's president by wrongly suggesting that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recent immigrant roots. Sarkozy, in improvised remarks Tuesday to the French-American Business ...

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Hillary Clinton is taking flak for the roundabout way in which she answered a question about whether New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was right to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. During a presidential debate, candidate Clinton insisted that ...

Voters across Virginia chose candidates in state and local elections yesterday not out of anger over illegal immigration but based on party affiliation, a preference for moderation and strong views on such key issues as residential growth and improving ...

Speaking on commercial channel RTL Klub, immigration office chief Zsuzsanna Vgh confirmed the fight, which took place in the town of Bicske, (30 km SW from Budapest) on Sunday (Nov 4), and adding that one of the Hungarians had been seriously injured. A ...

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NEW YORK Pressed anew on whether she supports granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday it depends on the state. In an interview with a cable news channel, Clinton, a New York senator, reiterated her ...

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NEWARK, N.J. - In the three months since the execution-style killings of three college students, most of the anti-crime initiatives announced have yet to be implemented or show results _ with one notable exception. Attorney General Anne Milgram's ...

(Computerworld) U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week attacked the H-1B visa program, charging that it takes jobs away from American workers. But Grassley also said that he's willing to consider an increase in the annual visa cap if proponents ...

Unjustly convicted Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean are currently serving 11- and 12-year prison terms, respectively, for shooting and wounding an admitted illegal alien drug smuggler whom they interdicted while he was smuggling $1 ...