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Senators say loopholes in program need to be closed. Compiled by staff Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., are pressing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for answers to long-standing problems in the H-1B ...

Stephen Harper and Barack Obama will meet on Friday to set in motion the most sweeping changes to the Canada-U.S. border since the 1988 free-trade agreement. According to information obtained by The Globe and Mail, the Prime Minister and the U.S. ...

MIAMI ? One of the first Haitians deported to that Caribbean nation since a January 2010 earthquake has died there after suffering cholera-like symptoms in jail, immigration rights activists said Tuesday. Wildrick Guerrier, 34, was deported to Haiti with ...

Fewer than one in every 100 miles of the U.S. border with Canada is adequately secured, a government watchdog agency said on Tuesday. The study by the Government Accountability Office said just 32 miles of the nearly 4,000-mile northern border "reached ...

The Denver Post Posted: 02/02/2011 01:00:00 AM MST WASHINGTON Americans face a high risk of terrorist activity along the U.S.-Canadian border, where less than 1 percent of the 4,000-mile stretch is adequately protected, according to a government ...

In March 2009, the Obama administration launched the Southwest Border Initiative to bring unprecedented focus and intensity to securing the Southwest border, coupled with a reinvigorated, smart and effective approach to enforcing our immigration laws. ...

WASHINGTON A new report for the U.S. Congress has found the Homeland Security department has "acceptable control" of less than one per cent of America's 6,400-kilometre border with Canada a security failure that's prompted one U.S. senator to ...

US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asian Affairs Robert Blake has appreciated Pakistan for deploying approximately 140,000 troops from its Indian border to the Afghan border, and said re-deployment of Pakistani troops back to the ...

Leesport, Pa. Angie didn't know what would happen when she and her family turned themselves in to US border agents after their guide retreated to Mexico and they wandered for three days in the Texas wilderness. She just knew they couldn't go without food ...

Deputy commander of US forces in Afghanistan Lt Gen David Rodriguez said Pakistan had launched effective operations along the north-west border. But, Islamabad needed to do more in North Waziristan, he said. Pakistan has come under increasing criticism ...

Gen. David Rodriguez (Deputy Commander in Afghanistan) told to Pentagon News that NATO led forces can still win Afghan war even Pakistan fails to move their militant on the border. Rodriguez said the war effort would not be derailed even if Pakistan ...

Suleiman Shoumi, the Libyan Secretary of Foreign Affairs, in a meeting with foreign minister Tonio Borg (right) in August 2009. Maltese ambassador to Tripoli complained that Libyans dont answer phone calls when coordinating search and rescue missions. ...

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US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asian Affairs Robert Blake has appreciated Pakistan for deploying approximately 140,000 troops from its Indian border to the Afghan border, and said re-deployment of Pakistani troops back to the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fewer than one in every 100 miles of the U.S. border with Canada is adequately secured, a government watchdog agency said on Tuesday. The study by the Government Accountability Office said just 32 miles of the nearly 4,000-mile ...

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A California lawmaker who is not convinced that the country is ready for a cross-border trucking program with Mexico is calling for a Congressional hearings before the border is opened. U.S. Rep. Bob Filner, D-CA, is calling on the leadership of ...

Don't tell Harry Reid, but a new study released Tuesday finds that the percentage of illegal immigrants among Nevada's population is the highest of any state in the union. So, too, is the percentage of illegals in the state's work force. Remember, it was ...

Published on Febuary 1st, 2011 Topics : Government Accountability Office , Border Patrol , Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee , United States , US northern , Canada AUGUSTA, Maine - Less than 1 per cent of the 4,000-mile ...

Location: Central Library 10 Grand Army Plz, Brooklyn, NY When: March 29, 2011 Time: 6:30pm Meet at the Multilingual Center & learn the ins and outs of the US citizenship test. ...