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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has launched a toll-free hotline for individuals detained for being illegal immigrants by state and local law enforcement agencies, the agency announced today. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer prepares ...

Authorities are investigating human remains found at the same U.S. border lake where a Colorado man was reported to have been killed by Mexican drug cartel members last year. A professional fisherman found the skeletal remains on the Mexican side of ...

US & MEXICO - Earlier this month, a truck-load of portion-controlled lamb T-bones worth approximately US$28,000 were successfully exported from Wisconsin, through the LaredoNuevo Laredo port of entry into Mexico. The Office of Agricultural Affairs ...

But in the past five years, the international border here has become a harder, tougher, taller barrier an American Great Wall. Miles of steel fencing now ride the desolate sand dunes west of Calexico, and to the east, giant jack-shaped Normandy ...

More than 11 million passports were issued in the U.S. this year, raising the number of Americans with passports to a record 35%, the State Department says. Some of that rise can be attributed to new rules for travel to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. ...

The hot line is intended to stem concern over local authorities conducting immigration screenings. The new measures come after reports that American citizens were being held on immigration charges. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us ...

The feds launched a hotline Thursday to help U.S. citizens who get caught up in deportation dragnets and are then wrongly held in immigration detention. The new help-line was established after the American Civil Liberties Union charged earlier this month ...

(CNN) -- In the latest volley between the federal government and states pushing anti-illegal-immigration laws, the Obama administration announced Thursday it was establishing a new hotline for immigration detainees who feel they "may be U.S. citizens or ...

Girls seeking abortions in New Hampshire must first tell their parents or a judge, employers in Alabama must verify new workers U.S. residency, and California students will be the first in the country to receive mandatory lessons about the ...

New Measure Launched To Ensure Detained Individuals 'Are Made Aware Of Their Rights' Jason Reed / Reuters IMMIGRATION DEBATE Info: Who Is Legal? Survey: What Should US Do? (CNN) -- In the latest volley between the federal government and states pushing ...

LOS ANGELES ? Federal immigration officials Thursday announced creation of a telephone hotline to ensure that detainees held by local police are informed of their rights. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said the toll-free ...

A Haitian official says that 38 migrants who died in a shipwreck off the coast of Cuba have been buried in that country. Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Lamothe told The Associated Press on Thursday that the bodies were buried in Cuba because they ...

He stressed only at the end of the internal review process will a final visa adjudication be made. The Department of State will confirm that a decision has been reached only after this process has been completed. ...

The feds launched a hotline Thursday to help U.S. citizens who get caught up in deportation dragnets and are then wrongly held in immigration detention. The new help-line was established after the American Civil Liberties Union charged earlier this month ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. While many Americans believe that illegal immigrants don't pay taxes, the Social Security Administration sees billions of dollars flow into its coffers every year that have been deducted from paychecks issued to undocumented workers ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Thousands of illegal immigrants will be allowed to stay and work in Poland under an amnesty unveiled on Thursday that highlights the country's transformation into a regional economic powerhouse from communist-era basket case. ...

NASHVILLE, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An immigration lawyer has filed a legal challenge to a Tennessee law aimed at catching illegal aliens when they are arrested in the state. Under the law, corrections officers at local and county jails are required to ask all ...

The Homeland Security Department is launching a hot line for people jailed on immigration charges who believe they are victims of crime or may be U.S. citizens. The toll free hot line _ 855-448-6903 _ will be staffed 24 hours a day and run by Immigration ...

Storm Lake, Ia. An Iowan here today publicly lavishedpraise on a clearly flattered Callista Gingrich before questioning President Obamas citizenship. Newt Gingrichs wife Callista has stood beside Gingrich during his entire speaking ...

The 11 migrants were repatriated Thursday. | Email | Print Tweet advertisement The U.S. Coast Guard repartiated 11 Cuban migrants on Thursday. On Sunday, the crew of the cruise ship Navigator of the Seas spotted 12 migrants on a raft that was in danger ...