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Some were so tiny their parents had to hold up their right hands to take their oath. U.S. immigration officials celebrated new citizenship for 24 Northern California children at a special ceremony today in Sacramento. The children, none older than 12, ...

National Guard troops on duty at U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma, Ariz. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force.) (CNSNews.com) For the National Guard in 2010, the No. 1 mission was responding to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the No. 2 mission was ...

Let?s close out the year by reviewing the barometer of events to survey our progress in terms of our understanding of various issues before us. Specifically, let?s probe how well do we understand the rights of citizens and whether we?ve honored those ...

WASHINGTON - A U.S. military commander says there's no practical way to seal Afghanistan's vast border with Pakistan and stop all Taliban fighters from slipping through, so troops are focusing on defending vulnerable towns and fighting insurgents on ...

WASHINGTON: A US military commander says there is no practical way to seal Afghanistans vast border with Pakistan and stop all Taliban fighters from slipping through, so troops are focusing on defending vulnerable towns and fighting insurgents on ...

Gunmen kidnapped nine migrants in a southern Mexican state where 50 disappeared last week, El Salvador's Foreign Ministry announced Monday. Five of the migrants escaped and reported the kidnapping, the ministry said in a statement. Another was killed as ...

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Pakistani intel officials say suspected US missile strike kills 6 militants near Afghan border. ...

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Author: Dan KatzTheres not a clean, pleasant capitalism in one place glitzy, high-tech, full of good food and happy people and a separable, unfortunate area of poverty, unemployment and misery. The whole system contains both. Capitalisms ...

Protecting the Politically Persecuted is an Afterthought, Finds New Report from FAIR (Washington, D.C. December 28, 2010) A comprehensive analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) of U.S. refugee and asylum policy concludes that ...

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WASHINGTON - A U.S. military commander says there is no practical way to seal Afghanistan's vast border with Pakistan and stop all Taliban fighters from slipping through, so troops are focusing on defending vulnerable towns and fighting insurgents on ...

Central Americans who cross Mexico to illegally enter the US risk becoming victims of criminal gangs [EPA] Armed men have kidnapped nine migrants in a southern Mexican state where 50 people disappeared last week. El Salvador's foreign ministry said on ...

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Washington - No doubt enjoying the rays of sun and roar of waves while on his Hawaii vacation - a vacation that, while not quite as appealing as, say, an August vacation in Texas, - President Obama is still commander-in-chief, of a military run amok. ...

A U.S. military commander says there's no practical way to seal Afghanistan's vast border with Pakistan and stop all Taliban fighters from slipping through, so troops are focusing on defending vulnerable towns and fighting insurgents on Afghan soil. Army ...

WASHINGTON Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military. Sponsors of the Dream Act fell five votes short ...

Three Republicans voted to advance the legislation while five Democrats voted no in the final 55-41 tally. Read more... ...

Undocumented UCLA student Leslie Perez, 22, weeps while watching a televised debate of the Dream Act in the Senate at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. Perez is an undocumented student at UCLA. The Dream Act would ...