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Gov. Rick Perry said Saturday that thoughtful discussion is needed to bring U.S. troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq as the Texan wrapped up his first week of campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination. Perry has emphasized domestic issues since ...

The agency has spent more than $85 million over the past eight years to transport Mexican illegal immigrants far beyond the border in a humanitarian effort aimed at saving lives by deterring migrants from making another dangerous border crossing. But it ...

As governor of Texas, with its huge Latino population, he's held a more moderate stance on the issue than many fellow Republicans. But recent actions indicate a shift. 0 As governor of the state with the longest border with Mexico, Rick Perry enters the ...

Two American men arrested more than two years ago while hiking along the Iraq-Iran border have been sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage and illegally entering Iran, state TV has reported. Two American men arrested more than two years ago ...

Rick Perry believes that illegal immigrants who serve in the military should receive U.S. citizenship. "I think there is a path to citizenship for those young men and women who have served their country," Perry said. Previous image Enlarge Close Next ...

CLAPHAM, England ? The boy was 13 when a dawn immigration raid abruptly ended his father?s four-year quest for political asylum in Britain. By nightfall of that day in 2005, father and son were hundreds of miles from home, locked in the privately run ...

Sujey Pando (right) and her spouse Violeta (photo courtesy Lavi Soloway) A Colorado immigration judge halted the deportation on Friday of a lesbian Mexican national in a same-sex marriage who would be eligible for a marriage-based green card if not for ...

- Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates. The long-debated Dream Act has all but become practice now that President Obama announced on Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security would cease targeting for deportation students in this country ...

Martha Diaz and her husband Antonio Diaz Chacon said Diaz Chacon was an illegal immigrant. He was hailed as a hero for saving a 6-year-old girl from a kidnapper earlier this week. ...

Antonio Diaz Chacon has been lionized by immigration-rights advocates since he saved a child. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The man who chased down a child-abduction suspect and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate was honored as a ...

The Obama Administration's announcement that it would review, on a case-by-case basis, the approximately 300,000 pending deportation cases in immigration courts to weed-out non-criminal immigrants and focus on deporting felons was greeted with both high ...

SAN DIEGO - With her thick, wavy gray hair and heavily lined face, Felicitas Gurrola defies the image of today's typical Mexican smuggler. At 84, she directed a female-dominated ring that prosecutors say led 80 people a month to the Los Angeles area - ...

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Hispanic leaders and advocates for immigrants are praising President Obama for the administration's decision to keep illegal youth out of deportation proceedings. However, Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and others accuse the president of backtracking ...

The man who chased down a suspected child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate was honored as a hero Friday. But he is also gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights in ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - There are 300,000 pending deportation cases in immigration court. The Obama administration now says many undocumented immigrants may not have to leave. That's pleasing some in our community, while others worry. And in the middle, law ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The man who chased down a suspected child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate was honored as a hero Friday. But Antonio Diaz Chacon is also an illegal immigrant. Diaz Chacon, 23, is married ...

The Obama administration's plan to focus its deportation efforts on illegal immigrants with criminal records or those who pose a threat to national security has been greeted with both cheers and jeers. Hailing the new rules that also outline ways for ...

Flake Urges Obama to Support 10-Point Border Security Plan Mesa, Arizona, Aug 19 - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizonas Sixth District, today criticized the Obama Administration for implementing an immigration policy that is ...

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