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They say they'll use their new majority in the House to press for more aggressive enforcement without any path to legal status. Deportations of illegal immigrants have reached new heights for two years running under President Obama, statistics show, but ...

Employers rely on H-1B status to temporarily employ foreign workers in the U.S. in "specialty occupations," which are those for which a bachelor's degree or its equivalent is an entry-level requirement. The number of H-1B petitions that may be approved ...

SAN DIEGO The Los Angeles Times reported a Muslim cleric who was deported from Canada to Tunisia has been arrested near San Diego after allegedly sneaking across the border from Mexico and hiding in the trunk of a BMW. Said Jaziri is a material ...

SAN ANTONIO Sr. Mary McCauley, her silver hair framing a classic Irish face, could easily seem a diminutive nun in her 70s looking at retirement after a lifetime in the classroom or convent administration. But circumstances and, she would say, ...

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President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address Tuesday night made the requisite case, although briefly, for immigration reform. It's the same call he made last year in his State of the Union speech -- and the year before. Obama said Tuesday ...

"In Quebec's large Muslim community, Jaziri stood out for his outspoken views, and though his mosque was small, he drew outsized media attention for his strict interpretation of the Koran. Jaziri labeled homosexuality a sin and pushed for government ...

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A high-level immigration official says it costs $12,500 to arrest, detain and deport each person removed from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deputy director Kumar Kibble has announced that cost at a House subcommittee hearing. Wednesday's ...

The US Embassy in Accra is advising the public against the activities of fraudsters promising a permanent U.S. resident permit or green card via the U.S. Diversity Visa lottery program. The Embassy said in a statement issued in Accra Wednesday that the ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Mexico to meet with Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa and President Felipe Calderon to discuss security on the U.S.-Mexico border, the strength of Mexicos judicial system and trade. The Trucker Staff ...

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TAGS:green cards, H-1B, Obama IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation In his State of the Union, President Barack Obama may have given a green light to increasing H-1B visas and employment-based Green Cards. Obama's point was direct. "Others come here from ...

San Juan, P.R. A federal grand jury issued an indictment today against Froilan Nolberto Herrera-Torres, a citizen national of the Dominican Republic, after U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested him last week for assuming the identity of a U.S. ...

HAVANA, Cuba.-A witness in the trial against international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, underway in El Paso, Texas, affirmed that the criminal entered US territory onboard the Santrina boat and not through the Mexican border, as he had told US ...

In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama made a common-sense plea for comprehensive immigration reform, including a reference to the DREAM ACT, the popular measure that would provide a path to citizenship for young adults who, ...

(CN) - A divided 5th Circuit panel declined to review the asylum request of an Albanian woman and her son whose family planned to help U.S. investigators take down a mobster suspected of human trafficking. If removed to Albania, the woman says they may ...

Pine Valley, Calif. Today, Border Patrol agents working at the Border Patrol checkpoint in Pine Valley arrested a 43-year-old male Mexican national and a 57-year-old female Mexican national, both legally present in the U.S., for smuggling more than ...

TAGS:green cards, H-1B, Obama IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation In his State of the Union, President Barack Obama may have given a green light to increasing H-1B visas and employment-based Green Cards. Obama's point was direct. "Others come here from ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. ? A jury has started deliberations in the trial of three former Pennsylvania police officers charged with covering up the fatal beating of an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Former Shenandoah police Chief Matthew Nestor and two ...