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Businessman admits submitting H-1B applications with counterfeit job offer letters from Gap, Wells Fargo and Genentech Print A California businessman last week was sentenced to six months in prison for trying to get H-1B visas for workers to fill jobs ...

A "birth tourism" center uncovered by officials in Los Angeles County has given fresh ammunition to people calling for a change to the 14th Amendment, which grants automatic citizenship to every baby born in the US. Officials say they discovered that ...

SPA -- Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant faced a difficult balancing act Tuesday as they struggled to keep reactors cool and prevent radioactive water from leaking into the ocean. Water has been a key weapon in the battle... Jeddah, ...

Please join the Center for American Progress for a special presentation: March 31, 2011, 12:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m. Admission is free. About this event: On the first day of the 112th Congress, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) introduced legislation in the House of ...

DHL has launched a new, integrated service for goods crossing the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Dubbed Logistics Without Borders, the offering will provide one-stop access by shippers, carriers and end-users to tools that simplify the ...

President Barack Obama on Monday told an audience of predominantly Latinos that hes hopeful an immigration overhaul bill will be able to pass Congress soon, even though he was unable to shepherd legislation for the DREAM Act to his desk before the ...

A U.S. border agent is under investigation after allegedly fatally shooting a Mexican three times in the back while he was trying to scale a border wall. The unnamed Border Patrol agent was on guard at the Mexico-Arizona checkpoint and apparently ...

PR Newswire WASHINGTON, March 29, 2011 WASHINGTON, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new Center for Immigration Studies report finds that, 13 years after welfare reform, the share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a child ...

GUATEMALA CITY -- The family says Emily Samantha Ruiz was deported after her grandfather was detained when their flight was diverted to Washington on March 11 following a visit to Guatemala. Emily's a U.S. citizen; her parents are illegal immigrants ...

New Zealand exporters signed up to a special scheme, are set to benefit at the United States border. An improvement to the existing Mutual Recognition Arrangement between New Zealand and US Customs was finalised on Friday. Customs Acting Group Manager of ...

SPA -- Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Riyadh Region, arrived in Madinah this evening. At Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport, Prince Salman was received by Prince Abdulaziz bin Majid bin Abdulaziz,... WASHINGTON, Rabi Al-Akhir ...

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PR Newswire WASHINGTON, March 28, 2011 Announcement Follows Calls by Group to End Separation of Families WASHINGTON, March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Immigration Equality, the national experts on immigration rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sought to assure Hispanic Americans on Monday that he will not abandon his efforts to overhaul U.S. immigration policy or preserve government financial support for education. Congress narrowly failed last ...

An advocate for tougher enforcement of U.S. immigration laws says the Mexican government is more interested in Mexicans living illegally in the United States than legally in Mexico, which may be what is causing millions of people to leave that country ...

President Obama did an education town hall today, but also took questions about immigration and Libya. ...

There are plenty of reasons why Canadian retailers have become so appealing: the country's robust retail market, a healthy economy, proximity to the huge U.S. market, a common language and lower valuations of Canadian companies. But why does a U.S. ...

A persistent myth about President Obama is that he is pro-immigration. Obamas rhetoric may be pro-immigration, but his actions reveal that he is the most anti-immigration president in generations. Other than offering tepid rhetorical support for ...

PHOENIX (CN) - Border Patrolmen beat and terrorized a U.S. citizen and ripped up his Social Security card, then interrogated and terrorized him and dropped him off on a lonely desert highway, where he was run over by a car, the man claims in Federal ...