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Eight percent of all babies born in the U.S. in 2008 belonged to illegal immigrant parents, according to a groundbreaking analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center. Each child obtained U.S. citizenship at birth, while one or both of ...

Reuters - ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Wednesday proposed legislation that would toughen law enforcement measures against illegal immigrants in the melting-pot state. ...

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The IT industry on Wednesday voiced its concern over the discriminatory nature of the proposed US Border Security Bill, which will lead to a hike in visa fees, costing Indian firms an additional USD 200-250 million annually. This will make the Indian IT ...

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Eight percent of all babies born in the U.S. in 2008 belonged to illegal immigrant parents, according to a groundbreaking analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center. Each child obtained U.S. citizenship at birth, while one or both of ...

She touted the Secure Communities program as a way of identifying and deporting 'criminal aliens,' but immigrant rights activists criticized it after obtaining documents that show more than one-quarter of those deported under its auspices had no criminal ...

Despite the tightened security, there are many back roads and other ways for Arizona escapee John McCluskey and his suspected accomplice, Casslyn Welch, to slip across the border and into Canada, authorities on both sides agree. ...

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Wednesday proposed tougher curbs against illegal migrants in his melting-pot state which he said would go "one step further" than a similar contested Arizona law. The proposal by ...

Hispanic media figures turn on Obama over his failure to produce immigration reform. ...

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Wednesday proposed legislation that would toughen law enforcement measures against illegal immigrants in the melting-pot southeastern U.S. state. The proposal by McCollum, who is ...

PODGORICA, Montenegro Montenegro will offer citizenship to people who invest more than $662,650 in the tiny Balkan country, the government said Tuesday. The "economic citizenship program" is designed to attract business owners to move their companies to ...

The Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriations Act was passed yesterday by a voice vote in the House of Representatives. The proposed increase in visa application fee by at least USD 2,000 for next five years would raise nearly USD 550 million ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Immigrants in New York City have a lower unemployment rate and participate in the labor force at a higher rate than native-born Americans, a divergence from the national trends that may reflect optimism about the recovery. The ...

Reporting from Washington Immigration officials now have access to the fingerprints of every inmate booked into jail in all 25 U.S. counties along the Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday, touting the program as ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Council on International Personnel (ACIP) unveiled a joint study today on the importance of opening Americas doors to highly educated workers who promote innovation and U.S. ...

The hunt for an escaped prisoner and his fiancee has shifted to the United States border with Canada twelve days after a jailbreak in Arizona. ...

Leading US lawmakers have hailed the passage of a key border security bill that would steeply hike H-1B and L-1 visa fees to fund new measures, even as Indian IT companies have resented the move. The Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriations ...

Leading US lawmakers have hailed the passage of a key border security bill that would steeply hike H-1B and L-1 visa fees to fund new measures, even as Indian IT companies have resented the move. The Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriations ...

The House of Representatives approved $600 million in funding for border security that will enable the deployment of troops, agents, and drones at the US-Mexico border. Representatives were called back to Washington, D.C. from their August recess to ...