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New Republican House Speaker John Boehner says he doesn't question President Barack Obama's place of birth but it's not within his purview to tell others what to think. "The state of Hawaii has said that President Obama was born there. That's good enough ...

A new law has granted certain orphaned children from Haiti permanent residency, United States immigration authorities have announced. President Obama signed a law last month to make it easier for Haitian orphans to obtain permanent residency. The passing ...

It is unfair to grant birthright citizenship to children of illegal immigrants because it undermines the intention of the Fourteenth Amendment, rewards those that have recklessly broken our nations immigration laws, and costs American taxpayers ...

Some Republican state legislators brazenly announced a radical new goal today: eviscerating the 14th Amendments citizenship guarantee. Their declared strategy is to enact patently unconstitutional state laws in the hope that the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Since some of you picked up a sentence (even a bracketed one) in the whole article on the belittling that occurred on H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit's protocol weight in the UN sideline meetings in New York on 24th September 2010, let me draw your attention to ...

WASHINGTON The Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, which takes office on Wednesday, is preparing to introduce measures that would dramatically tighten US immigration policy. The new legislative agenda comes after President Barack ...

Nearly two years after the termination of the pilot program that allowed expanded access to the United States by select Mexican carriers, on January 6 U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood shared with Congress and the government of Mexico an initial ...

Authorities on Thursday announced a plan to build a border crossing in West Texas' remote Big Bend National Park that would allow outdoor enthusiasts to explore the picturesque region on both sides of the Rio Grande _ despite U.S. government warnings ...

The rise of the Canadian dollar, which is currently worth more than its U.S. counterpart, is good news for New Brunswick shoppers spending in the U.S. but not for some businesses on the Canadian side. The loonie is just above parity with the U.S. dollar. ...

A US woman reported by media to be a suspected spy was refused entry at a border crossing with Armenia a week ago over a visa problem, Iran's Al-Alam television reported Thursday, citing a security source. That contradicted earlier media reports that she ...

In a letter to Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Mr. David Huizenga, Assistant Deputy Administrator for International Nuclear Safety and Cooperation in the United States Department of Energy, gives an excellent mark to the observed professionalism ...

WASHINGTON - Senior U.S. and Cuban officials will meet next week in a new round of immigration talks, the State Department said Thursday, even as the Obama administration continues to press for the release a detained American aid contractor. Spokesman ...

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The US Labor Department is aggressively investigating compliance with the wage-rate and benefits commitments employers must make in an H-1B Labor Condition Application (LCA). ...

(American Meat Institute) U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today shared with Congress and the government of Mexico an initial concept document regarding the implementation of a long haul cross-border Mexican trucking program. This is the first ...

The children Flor Velasco cared for and the "Sesame Street" and "I Love Lucy" shows she watched with them were enough to teach her the English she'd initially come to the United States to learn. But, the 40-year-old said, it was her desire to help people ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary shared with Congress and the government of Mexico an initial concept document for a long haul cross-border Mexican trucking program that prioritizes safety, while satisfying the United States international obligations. ...

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Some of the nations wealthy are taking their unhappiness about taxes to an extremeby renouncing their U.S. citizenship. Kenneth Rubinstein, a tax attorney, was at a party thrown by his clientsa husband and wife who were both physicianswhen ...

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