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Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has introduced a bill that he said is needed to protect Americans from criminal illegal immigrants who are being released into U.S. communities based on a Supreme Court decision that said they can't be incarcerated for more ...

A former police chief accused of hindering an FBI investigation into the beating death of an illegal Mexican immigrant was sentenced Wednesday to 13 months in prison after a federal judge called sentencing guidelines "overly harsh." The sentence handed ...

TUNIS, Tunisia Tunisia's coast guard launched Wednesday operations to rescue some 700 would-be immigrants trapped on a fishing boat that stalled off the country's coast, the official TAP news agency said.The boat is believed to have set sail from Libya ...

SAN FRANCISCO IF the San Francisco sheriffs plan becomes reality, illegal immigrants arrested for petty crimes wont be held in jail longer than necessary, even if US immigration agents may want them detained for possible deportation. Instead, ...

A former member of Serbia's paramilitary force during the Bosnian war pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the southern US state of Georgia of lying about his activities during the conflict, officials said. Zeljko Zekic, 48, faces charges of fabricating his ...

Your editorial ("Global Cleveland on a talent search," May 28) is well-intentioned but naive. Foreign students come to America to acquire job skills and to compete with our own children for a dwindling number of jobs. But American companies continue to ...

It is too early to confidently predict what will make or break President Obamas bid for reelection. However, there do seem to be certain trends. First, the economy is not improving at the rate the administration and Americans had hoped. In fact, many ...

A new study says that the U.S. current immigration system -- that is, the legal immigration system -- is dysfunctional in that it is not responsive to the socioeconomic conditions of the United States; the main flaw in the current system -- a flaw, the ...

US senator John McCain, who will meet with government officials in Burma today, told reporters in the Thai border town of Mae Sot yesterday that more funding was needed for the lauded Mae Tao clinic, which treats thousands of Burmese each year. The ...

Agriculture labor requirements and the threat of higher food prices and rising imports took center stage when USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack pushed immigration reform during a recent press conference. Vilsack argued against smaller, incremental reform as ...

The US House of Representatives could vote this week on a 2012 Homeland Security Appropriations bill passed last Thursday by the Appropriations Committee that includes expanded spending on immigration enforcement. Click here for the full story ...

May 31--There is no other way to phrase it: You don't know how tough it is until you go through it. Thousands of people, young and old, die each year trying to reach what they believe is the American Dream. Men, women and children set off from various ...

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PR Newswire WASHINGTON, May 31, 2011 WASHINGTON, May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Forty-five years after Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty," the United States maintains a policy of mass immigration that perpetuates and increases poverty in ...

President Obama reiterated his position on Israel's borders during a May 22 speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Virginia Republicans were quick to criticize President Obama for recently urging Israel to seek peace with Palestinians by ...

A bill that would require principals to keep track of illegal immigrants in their schools would intimidate parents and likely run afoul of federal law, opponents told a legislative panel on Tuesday. Members of the public spoke against a bill introduced ...

The Obama administration is taking steps to crack down on the hiring of illegal immigrants by focusing increasingly tough criminal charges on employers, while moving away from criminal arrests of the workers themselves. There have been fewer workplace ...

WICHITA, Kan. - A federal jury convicted an 84-year-old man Tuesday of lying on his immigration forms about his whereabouts during the Rwanda genocide, but it did not find that the government proved its case that he took part in the mass killings. The ...