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The late left-wing historian Howard Zinn was one of America's best-known public intellectuals. His 1980 opus is widely used as a high-school and college textbook, and he had plenty of fans in the entertainment world, among them Matt Damon and Ben Affleck ...

By Greg Moran / AFP PHOTO Jess Navarro Montes was convicted Tuesday in federal court of the 2008 killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar. SAN DIEGO Two hours after receiving the case Tuesday, a federal court jury convicted a Mexicali man ...

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Another 32 bodies were discovered in mass graves in northeastern Mexico, bringing the death toll from a slaughter of bus passengers to 120, state officials said Tuesday.State authorities said they began investigating the massacre after receiving reports ...

Marcos Manuel Rodriguez Perez, 26, was taken into custody as he was driving through Tijuana Monday morning, aided by information provided by the FBI, said Adrian Hernandez, director of Tijuana's police. Mexico's federal attorney general's office had ...

WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the most contested provisions of Arizona's immigration law will remain blocked from taking effect, handing the Obama administration an early victory in its efforts to overturn the legislation. The ...

The federal government hasnt come up with a comprehensive strategy to secure the United States-Mexico border, even as an all-out war between Mexico and its violent drug gangs has claimed 35,000 lives and pushed hundreds of thousands of immigrants into ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned down an appeal filed by Gov. Jan Brewer. She had asked the appeals court to lift an injunction imposed by a federal judge in Phoenix the day before the law was to take effect on July 29, 2010. The U.S Justice ...

In todays Academic Minute, California Western School of Law's James Cooper explores immigration as seen from the Mexican side of the border. Find out more about the Academic Minute here. ...

A federal appeals court on Monday turned down an appeal filed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to lift a stay on the state's controversial immigration law.In a ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower federal court judge was right in her ...

SAN DIEGO -- Police in Tijuana, Mexico, said Monday that officers arrested a man suspected of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent near San Diego, nearly one year after another person was sentenced to prison for his role in the ambush. Marcos Manuel ...

ATLANTA -- WATCH VIDEO A bill designed to crack down on illegal immigration in Georgia that the Senate approved Monday includes some provisions similar to those in a tough law enacted last year in Arizona.After nearly three hours of debate and several ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, Angela Maria Kelley, Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement on the U.S. appeals court ruling which upheld a preliminary injunction against parts ...

On April 1, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) began accepting petitions for H-1B visas for 2012. H-1Bs are temporary employer-sponsored work visas for highly skilled workers in specialty occupations. They run for three years, are renewable ...

A federal appeals court on Monday refused to lift a stay blocking major parts of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect and said the federal government is likely to be able to prove the controversial law is unconstitutional. The 9th U.S. Circuit ...

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FollowSubscribeSponsor an Examiner Do you like this Article? Today, the Ninth United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled upholding a freeze on parts of Arizona's Immigration Law. This is the largest blow that the Arizona Law has taken since July of ...

A federal appellate court Monday upheld a judge's ban on the most controversial parts of a new Arizona immigration law, setting the stage for a showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over how far a state can go to expel illegal immigrants. The three-judge ...

A border security agreement reached between Canada and the United States in February would weaken the Canadian government's ability to protect its citizens from food diseases, say the NDP and Liberals. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President ...

MEXICAN drug gangs branching out into new criminal activity are earning a steady stream of cash from the mass kidnapping of migrants, making the already arduous journey to the United States even more lethal. a d v e r t i s e m e n t The trek across ...