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A group of 17 migrants have been kidnapped in Tijuana, the largest city in north-western Mexican state Baja California, authorities said Wednesday, Xinhua reported. Municipal police officer Gustavo Huerta said that he had interviewed Leandro Martinez, a ...

At least 17 migrants have been kidnapped near the US border in northern Mexico by human traffickers, Tijuana police said. Two freed kidnap victims reported the incident to authorities, saying "another 17 kidnapped people were inside a safe house," ...

Mexican police have rescued six Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month near the popular beachside resort of Cancun. A police patrol stormed a house in Bonfil, on the outskirts of Cancun, on Tuesday after receiving a tip, Quintana Roo ...

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* Bankrupt city to make sure every golf cart driver is a government employee: The City of Los Angeles, after spending seven years negotiating the golf cart concession for its seven!!! (7!!!) public courses, drops the private company and decides to get ...

Washington -- Illegal immigration into the United States has slowed considerably in the last several years, a study released Wednesday concludes. The decline marks the first significant turnaround in two decades, researchers with the nonpartisan Pew ...

A former U.S. Customs employee is headed to federal prison for 20 years after being convicted of corruption and smuggling charges in El Paso, Texas. Martha Alicia Garnica, 43, a former Customs and Border Protection officer, conspired to smuggle marijuana ...

A poll says an overwhelming majority of Arizona voters support the types of provisions that are at the heart of a national debate involving the state's immigration law. The survey conducted on behalf of Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for ...

LUKEVILLE, Ariz. - Border agents have seized more than 900 pounds (408 kilograms) of marijuana hidden inside a pickup truck trying to cross from Mexico into Arizona. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday a 33-year-old woman and a 26-year-old ...

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by the Mexican Navy of the alleged site where 72 bodies (not depicted) were found, in San Fernando, Tamulipas state, Mexico, on Aug... ...

WASHINGTON The massacre of 72 northbound migrants in Mexico is yet another tragic deed that points up the need for the U.S. Congress to approve longed-for immigration reform. Up until their deaths at the hands of drug traffickers last week, their ...

WASHINGTON: As the United States approaches into the 10th year of its combat operation in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said that the leadership of Al-Qaida remains anchored in the border regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. 'As we approach our ...

Quito - A second migrant survived last week's massacre in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said Wednesday in Quito.Correa said the first survivor, an Ecuadorian citizen, had told him about a Honduran citizen ...

Contributed by Eyes For You (Editor) Contributor rating: View: Editor's biography | More stories | The shocking discovery of 72 murdered Hispanic migrants on a ranch just south of the U.S. border should be a wakeup call to all Americans that the ...

History buffs are getting a chance to hear all about Ellis Island's immigration story from the people who lived through it. A collection of oral histories from about 1,700 people who passed through Ellis Island starting in the late 1890s is going online. ...

The pace of H-1B visa filings slackened in the week ended August 27 to 1,000 new applications taking the total count to 34,900 visas against the current annual cap of 65,000 ...

NEW YORK Lawrence Meinwald's voice starts shaking when he recalls the first time he saw the Statue of Liberty. It was 1920, and the young Polish boy was on a ship with his family, headed to Ellis Island and a new life in America. "It was a great ...

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