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In the 10 years or so that Ive been writing about the H-1B visa program, I have steadfastly argued that despite rampant abuse of the system, the positive contributions of many, many people here on H-1B visas warrant continued support of the program. I ...

A new report released Tuesday found that the number of backlogged federal immigration court cases in May 2011 is edging toward 300,000, an all-time high, representing a 48% increase since the end of 2008. The caseload back-up has risen steadily since ...

DETROIT - A federal immigration board has reopened the deportation case of a Kenyan who attended a U.S. college and wrote a book about his conversion to Christianity from Islam. Hussein Wario says Christians continue to be persecuted in Kenya, and he ...

2011 Jun 07 The Boston Globe: The US government will force the state of Massachusetts to join a controversial federal program to detect and deport illegal immigrants, despite Governor Deval Patricks refusal to endorse it, a senior Homeland ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday rejected a challenge to California's policy of granting reduced, in-state tuition at its colleges and universities to graduates of its high schools who are illegal immigrants. The justices turned down an appeal ...

Taipei, June 7 (CNA) A newly found 1904 U.S. official document showing that the Republic of China's founding father had U.S. citizenship and was born in Honolulu, Hawaii will go on display at a special exhibition in Taipei on July 4. Taiwan's ruling ...

Georgia, Alabama, and Utah are the first states to follow in the footsteps of Arizona, passing laws that expand the power of local police to check the immigration status of residents. Legislators who back the new laws say they're sending a message that ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - U.S. drone aircraft struck the tribal region of South Waziristan in at least three attacks yesterday, killing at least 18 people, Pakistani officials said. A local army commander in Wana, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said ...

WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court declined June 6 to hear an appeal of a decade-old California law that allows undocumented immigrants and others without state residency to attend college at in-state tuition rates. The action allows the policy to ...

Interior Border Patrol Agents did it again; they snagged $3.5 million in cocaine and marijuana behind a false wall located in a tractor trailer headed to San Diego. U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to an Interstate 8 checkpoint just east of San Diego ...

-HUNTINGTON BEACH, Gordon Reed: We are in a deep recession with a 9.1 percent unemployment rate, which is much worse if one counts the underemployed and those who have stopped looking. The standard line from politicians, business leaders and... ...

PM PDT Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts has decided the state will not participate in a fingerprint-sharing program that is central to the Obama administration's immigration enforcement strategy, dealing a new political blow to a program that has met ...

Despite High Unemployment, U.S. Continues Admitting Millions of Legal Immigrants and Temporary Foreign Workers (Washington, D.C. June 6, 2011) The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has launched a television campaign in Ohio suggesting ...

(CBS News) -- The American military continues to fight on in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the casualties continue to mount. CBS News correspondent Mandy Clark embedded with the 101st Airborne in Paktika province, Afghanistan, recently. They are right on the ...

WASHINGTON - The US agriculture industry fears a disaster is on the horizon if the one bit of new immigration policy that Congress seems to agree on becomes law. A plan to require all American businesses to run their employees through E-Verify, a ...

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a California policy that gives tuition breaks to illegal immigrants to attend public colleges and universities.The justices on Monday refused to review a California Supreme Court ruling that upheld ...

MIDVALE, Utah - Two former state workers pleaded guilty Monday to their roles in the release of a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants that created panic among Utah's Hispanic community last year. ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan The United States fired missiles at three suspected terrorist targets near the Afghan border Monday, killing 16 people and keeping the pressure on insurgents days after a strike was thought to have killed an al Qaeda commander, ...

The Israeli army said on Monday that 10 people had been killed during Sunday's "Naksa Day" protests along the Syrian cease-fire line, describing Damascus's toll of 23 as "exaggerated." Israeli leaders accused Syrian President Bashar al Assad of ...

The Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act (ATCPA) is a new immigration law passed last week by the Alabama legislature and it is now pending a signature from Alabama Governor Robert Bentley whos expected to sign it. The H.B. 56 does the ...