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President Barack Obama is carefully creating the illusion that he's serious about immigration reform. In a major speech in El Paso this month he pitched the idea that reform will strengthen the middle class by undercutting an underground economy of cheap ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently provided an update about the Fiscal Year 2012 (October 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012) H-1B quota. Similar to past years, the regular H-1B quota is limited to 65,000 with an additional ...

Barack Obama's immigration speech in El Paso May 10 was an exercise in electioneering and hypocrisy. Hypocrisy because while Obama complained about "politicians" blocking comprehensive immigration bills, he was one of them himself. In 2007, when such a ...

The White House said on Monday that Syria is to blame for inciting protests along its border with Israel and that it is doing so to draw attention away to its suppression of anti-government protesters at home. ...

After the president thank the members of the Senate and members of his administration who worked so hard on the border security and immigration reform bill he said, I'm sorry the Senate was unable to reach agreement on the bill this morning...Legal ...

Carlos Santana used baseball's annual Civil Rights Game as a platform to admonish Georgia and Arizona for their new immigration laws. The internationally famous musician received the Beacon of Change Award before the Braves-Phillies game. But as he was ...

In 1964 President Adolfo Lpez Mateos of Mexico and President Lyndon B. Johnson of the United States met on the border separating their two nations to celebrate the official end of the 100-year-long dispute regarding the precise location of the ...

Congressman Steve King, a leading advocate for border enforcement, says President Barack Obama is once again misleading the American people in touting the accomplishments of ...

WASHINGTON D.C., May 15 (CNA) - Last week the U.S. Catholic bishops urged President Obama to act faster on his promises of federal immigration reform. In the meantime, they want Catholics to understand how the current patchwork of local laws is affecting ...

A new national survey of Americans' attitudes on immigration, race, ethnicity and religion, conducted by Hamilton College, shows a large majority of Americans (60%) support allowing legal immigrants to vote in local elections, with the strongest support ...

A group of 50 Mexican migrants who were trying to reach the United States illegally were rescued after getting lost in the Sonora desert amid high temperatures, Mexico's migration authorities said Monday. The group, which included seven women and one ...

WASHINGTON, May 16 (KUNA) -- The US said here Monday that it regrets the loss of life in the violence along Israel's borders on Sunday, urging for "maximum" restraint on all sides. White House Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters in a gaggle aboard Air ...

We'll kick off today's round-up of fact checks with President Obama and his would-be presidential contenders come 2012. First up, President Obama has entered into the red hot issue of immigration reform. During a speech he delivered on the topic in El ...

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"I'm going to do my part to lead a constructive and civil debate on these issues." - President Obama on immigration, El Paso, Texas Constructive, civil debate - like the one Obama initiated just four weeks ago on deficit reduction? The speech in which he ...

With the stroke of Gov. Nathan Deal's pen, Georgia has become the nation's strictest state on illegal immigration. Click here for the full story ...

Local security officials in Pakistan's tribal region say missiles launched by pilotless U.S. drone planes on May 16 killed nine militants. The Pakistani officials said one missile attack targeted a compound near the border with Afghanistan, killing six ...

Rawk legend Carlos Santana was given a "Beacon of Change" award before an Atlanta Braves-Philadelphia Phillies baseball game this weekend as part of a civil rights celebration. Santana, who used to say that he was guided by a guardian angel named ...

New York - The U.S. has voided the results of the 2012 Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery posted on its website due to a computer programming error. A notice posted on Diversity Visa Lottery site on Friday said the results posted during the firstweek of ...

In the same week that President Obama tried to lay out a middle path to immigration reform, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed a bill that takes a tough line on illegal immigration. 0 Atlanta Three days after President Obama mocked Republicans as being ...