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EMILY BOURKE: With roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the US, the debate over immigration reform is never far from the surface, but Barack Obama knows that presidents before him have tried and failed to fix the system. But his outreach to Hispanics ...

EL PASO, TX -- The attorney for a Mexican human rights activist says the U.S. government has granted her political asylum request. Cipriana Jurado applied for asylum in March after her friend and long-time human rights colleague Josefina Reyes was gunned ...

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In 2002 the United States provide sixteen countries with a border-monitoring system called Personal Identification, Secure Comparison and Evaluation System (PISCES); Pakistan has now decided to replace the system with a Pakistani-developed system called ...

Your browser does not support iframes. Illegal Immigrants by Francis Hunt Governor Cuomo's recent decision to withdraw New York from the federal Secure Communities program--which sent the fingerprints of all jailed suspects to Homeland Security--got me ...

Critics say new Alabama legislation may translate into racial profiling. The governor of the US state of Alabama has signed into law one of the country's toughest measures meant to crack down on immigration. If the law is not blocked, it will take effect ...

LOS ANGELES ? When Jesse Goodman and his Argentine fianc left the United States in 2006 after an unsuccessful immigration battle, they expected that one day they would be able to return home to New York. Goodman and Max Oliva had become used to finding ...

Immigration admit there is a stripped Filipino tourists. Suspected of carrying drugs Online Media Philippines, Asia News Network (ANN), launched the report two tourists from Fhilipina treated with indecent at Ngurah Rai Airport, Bali. News was written by ...

A freshman state lawmaker defended yesterday statements he made earlier in the week that suggested that illegal immigrants who are raped should be afraid to contact police, saying that his remarks were "misportrayed'' in a newspaper article. Asked if he ...

Heavy handed? U.S. Border Patrol agents on the U.S. Mexico border The Texas Department of Public Safety, whose Rangers were involved in the shootout, maintained, however, that such an overwhelming response was standard given the United States's zero ...

US border guards have reportedly received cash and favors from Mexican drug cartels in return for turning a blind eye to the smuggling of drugs into the US. According to CNN quoting the acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security ...

Bigger than the 2012 election, the security and ultimate survival of Israel are at stake thanks to an irresponsible and radical speech given by the most hostile U.S. president the Jewish state has encountered in its 63 years. In his May 19 speech, Barack ...

June 11--Gov. Bob McDonnell says 10 months is long enough to wait for formal permission from the Department of Homeland Security to use Virginia State Police to assist federal authorities in removing dangerous illegal immigrants from Virginia. He issued ...

AMMAN - Syrian helicopter gunships fired machine guns to disperse a large pro-democracy protest in the town of Maarat al-Numaan on Friday, witnesses said, a dangerous escalation of force at the end of a day in which 32 civilians were reported killed by ...

(IPS) - On Dec. 1, 1955, at the height of racial segregation in the United States, a little-known middle-aged seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery City bus in the southern state of Alabama. Her ...

0 Comments | Post a Comment WASHINGTON -- Federal officials have a warning for immigrants considering too-good-to-true legal aid: The wrong help can hurt. Alejandro Mayorkas, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said this week that ...

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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Republican Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday signed into law a crackdown on illegal immigration in Alabama that both supporters and critics consider the toughest in the nation. The measure will require public schools to determine ...

About 160 people are expected to attend a free citizenship workshop Saturday organized by a team of Asian American organization officials who hope to make new voters in Orange County. The Asian Pacific American Legal Center and other Asian American and ...

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - The Mormon church on Friday expressed concern over a raft of state immigration laws and appeared to support a guest-worker program for illegal immigrants who "square themselves with the law." The statement by the Church of ...