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OTTAWA When it comes to energy and environmental issues, most U.S. politicians say Canada is a good neighbour, but that's not the case when the topic is border security, a Canadian think-tank says in a new report. The Fraser Institute analyzed what ...

To President Barack Obama, securing the border is a laughing matter -- and a lying matter. When Obama spoke in El Paso, Texas, yesterday, he claimed that (1) the federal government has now "basically" completed the border fence that security minded ...

The remarks came just hours before Obama delivered a high-profile immigration speech in Texas, where he claimed border security has improved in the last two years and urged Congress to get moving on comprehensive immigration reform. Cornyn, the senior ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Utah insists its new immigration law is different than Arizona's, but the 1-day-old statute is similarly stuck before a federal judge who will hear arguments in two months about its constitutionality. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups ...

HOUSTON - U.S. President Barack Obama called again Tuesday for a comprehensive immigration reform, saying the immigration system of the United States needed a real, comprehensive reform. Obama made the call in the border city of El Paso, Texas, during ...

issued an impassioned call for immigration reform in a speech at the US-Mexican border on Tuesday, sending a message to Hispanics whose votes he needs to win re-election next year. Obama, whose 2012 chances depend largely on the health of the US economy, ...

President Barack Obama headed to Texas Tuesday toting a pledge to jump-start work on a a long-awaited, never-attained goal of a Hispanic community that is crucial to Obamas hopes of winning key southwestern states in 2012. Are they cheering his ...

by Stephanie Boyd - El Paso, TX -- President Barack Obama called for a bipartisan approach to fixing a broken immigration system in a speech at Texas border city El Paso. An estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, most of them Hispanic, currently ...

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed his call for comprehensive immigration reform, saying the country's immigration system needs genuine, comprehensive reform. Obama made the remarks in El Paso, Texas, in his first visit to the southern U.S. ...

Jessica Colotl, an illegal immigrant and student at Kennesaw State University, is seen during a media interview at her lawyer's office in Atlanta. Colotl was arrested last year after a traffic stop and threatened with deportation only to have her case ...

President Barack Obama said the drive to revamp the nations immigration laws has fallen victim to political games and ugly rhetoric and that eliminating an underground economy fueled by illegal aliens will strengthen the U.S. middle class. ...

Well, we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at any time in our history. The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents more than twice as many as there were in 2004, a build up that began under President Bush and that we have ...

How left wing was his audience in El Paso? When he mentioned the border fence (3:30), they booed. This is an open border crowd, so I dont know why Obama felt the need to lie about it being basically complete. In what world is 5% basically ...

The White House issued the following blog by Jesse Lee: In a debate where the participants on all sides are too often portrayed as caricatures, the President sought to break through the stalemate by reminding us all that it is a debate about real people. ...

Obama calls for immigration system reform Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Barack Obama: "We have strengthened border security beyond what many people believed was possible" President Barack Obama has called for broad reform ...

President Obama is trying to jump-start the debate on overhauling the immigration system. He gave a speech on the U.S.-Mexican border Tuesday, and laid out his principles. He argued that fixing the system would give a boost to the economy. E-Mail ...

?The President implying, we?ve done enough, the border is secure, does not make it so. Our border is definitely not secure. The Government Accountability Office has determined that only 15 percent of the border is under operational control. The time has ...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama flew to the Mexican border in El Paso, Texas, yesterday to launch a renewed push for immigration reform that he said won't cost American jobs -- but will actually boost the US economy. "Immigration is not just the right ...

President Obama -- like many presidents before him -- wants immigration reform. The immediate problem does not require new law. Rather, the immediate problem requires the administration to enforce existing law. Illegal immigrants, primarily from Mexico, ...

EL PASO, Texas Delving anew into an explosive issue, President Barack Obama stood near the border with Mexico on Tuesday and declared it more secure than ever, trying to build pressure on Republicans to take on a comprehensive immigration overhaul ...