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President Barack Obama sued to keep Arizona from writing its own immigration laws. Now, every former Drug Enforcement Administration boss is asking whether he'll do the same to stop California from legalizing marijuana. In a letter to Attorney General ...

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Eighty-five prisoners escaped from a jail near the U.S. border on Friday, authorities and media said, the latest prison break underscoring the challenges Mexico faces as it battles powerful drug cartels.The prisoners, mainly ...

WASHINGTONEvery former U.S. drug enforcement administrator is calling on the Obama administration to come out against California's marijuana legalization effort with the same force it brought against Arizona's illegal immigration crackdown.An Aug. 24 ...

A homeless Dallas man from Mexico managed to breach security at Preston Hollow home last weekend, hoping the former president could grease the wheels for his citizenship. Ricardo Pereira even managed to knock on the mansion's door last weekend, sources ...

With the November congressional elections looming and continued tension over unemployment and illegal immigration issues, President Obama signed into law a bill earmarking $600 million to procure additional personnel and technology to improve border ...

A new Financial Times/Harris Poll finds that immigration is widely unpopular in the United States and in all of the five largest countries in Europe. The survey asked about immigration generally and not about illegal immigration. Majorities in four ...

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MARYLAND Man charged with murder in stabbing A Hyattsville man who prosecutors said sold drugs in the mid- to late-1980s with the D.C. drug kingpin Rayful Edmond and his crew was charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing of a man in Northeast ...

A pair of illegal immigration ordinances in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, were ruled unconstitutional Thursday by a federal appeals court. In 2006, Hazleton passed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance, which would have fined landlords who rented to ...

WASHINGTON A city may not punish employers who hire illegal immigrants or landlords who rent rooms to them, the federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Thursday, insisting that regulation of immigrants is "clearly within the exclusive domain of the ...

WASHINGTON A city may not punish employers who hire illegal immigrants or landlords who rent rooms to them, the U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Thursday, insisting that regulation of immigrants is "clearly within the exclusive domain of the ...

A law approved four years ago by Hazleton, Pa., clamping down on illegal immigrants and prompting similar moves in towns across the country, has been declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court. The city's Illegal Immigration Relief Act would ...

IN BERLIN The most talked-about man in Germany is a 65-year-old economist whose hot new book and sudden groundswell of popular support have the media dubbing him a folk hero. But that is not the only thing they are calling Thilo Sarrazin these days. Some ...

A Guatemalan illegal immigrant prepares to board a plane during his deportation process in Phoenix, Ariz., July 10, 2009. (Reuters Photo) Illegal immigrants who get pulled over by police for traffic-related offenses will be set free if a proposed change ...

A growing number of immigrants are taking lessons and taking classes on how to speak English like an American, experts in pronunciation say. "We're doing business like gangbusters," said Judy Ravin, president of Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Accent Reduction ...

SANTA ANA PUEBLO - The federal government has failed to secure its border with Mexico, and that means local police and deputies have to pick up the slack, Sen. John McCain told a group of border state sheriffs meeting here Wednesday. The Arizona ...

The Obama administration finally found a group of illegal aliens it wants to contain: Asian carp. Joel Hood of WGN TV in Chicago writes: The White House has tapped a former leader of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Indiana Wildlife ...

CP MEXICO CITY - Mexico's Senate passed a bill Thursday that would allow undocumented migrants to file complaints about abuses and receive medical treatment without being questioned about their immigration status. Currently, Mexican law allows only ...

A crowd gathers in June 2007 in support of Mayor Lou Barletta in front of City Hall in Hazelton, Pa. By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY A Hazleton, Pa., law that targeted illegal immigrants and served as a model for similar laws around the country was struck down ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower-court ruling striking down ordinances adopted by the City of Hazleton, Pa., that banned illegal immigrants from renting housing or being employed there. The 188-page ruling by the United States Court of ...