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WASHINGTON The United States closed its consulate in the crime-wracked Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez based on threat information, the State Department said Friday. The closure of the consulate was announced Thursday by the U.S. Embassy ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned U.S. leaders not to use the divisive issue of illegal immigration as a way to gain power and name recognition in an interview with CBS television released on Saturday. Fresh from a court victory that ...

Possibility of special legislature session being explored as appeals court sets November hearing ap Inmates in the yard at Maricopa County's Tent City jail in Phoenix yesterday. The controversial jail is run by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who ...

Guillermo Campos Ojeda stares blankly at the clouds from the jetliner's window, mentally retracing the 22 years that he lived in the United States as an illegal immigrant. His odyssey began in 1988 with an illegal border crossing and ended in May when he ...

U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan Ken Gross, Major General Sherali Mirzo, Chief of Tajikistan's Border Guard Forces, Colonel Alamkhon Rahmatov, Commander of the Shuroobod Detachment, and Lt. Col. Fathiddin Mirov, Director of the Border Guard Construction ...

PARIS French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put the lives of police officers in danger as part of a 'national war' on delinquency. In a speech in Grenoble, the site of recent urban ...

By some measures, President Obama has turned out to be tougher on illegal immigration than his predecessor. His administration has expanded programs to expel illegal immigrants who commit crimes and has been cracking down on businesses that employ ...

By Julie Hirschfeld Davis WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration, unable to push an immigration overhaul through Congress, is considering ways it could go around lawmakers to let illegal immigrants stay in the U.S., according to an agency memo. The ...

A U.S. court set a November date for Arizona's appeal to a federal court blocking of some part of immigrant law. A U.S. court denied a request for an expedited hearing on Friday and instead set a November date for Arizona's appeal to a federal court ...

WATSONVILLE, Calif.-A recently formed coalition of immigrant advocates is scrutinizing a controversial federal program that checks the immigration status of anyone booked into jail. Secure Communities, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program ...

Recently by Simon Black: This weekend I'll be in a forgotten corner of eastern Hungary, just south of the Polish border and just west of the Ukrainian border; it's a beautiful area, adorned with splendid castles and palaces that were commonplace during ...

Citt del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - Il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI, in data 12 gennaio 2009, ha accettato la rinuncia al governo pastorale della diocesi di Kundiawa (Papua Nuova Guinea), presentata da Sua Ecc. Mons. Henk Te Maarssen, S.V.D., in ...

Posing as someone else and using fake birth certificates and driver's licenses to get a U.S. passport can still work. For the second time in two years, government investigators exposed a gaping hole in the country's security by deliberately using ...

PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - A U.S. court denied a request for an expedited hearing on Friday and instead set a November date for Arizona's appeal to a federal court ruling that blocked key parts of a state law cracking down on illegal immigration. ...

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio also announces that three illegal immigrants were arrested in his sweep. Eighty demonstrators against Arizona's tough-on-illegal-immigration policies trickled out of jails here Friday, as a local sheriff continued one ...

A federal appeals court says it will hold a hearing in November on Arizona's challenge to a ruling that put the most controversial parts of the state's immigration law on hold. ...

PHOENIX Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says 22 people were arrested in a crime and immigration sweep conducted the same day Arizona's new immigration law took effect, and that three of them are illegal immigrants. Everyone arrested was stopped ...

Undercover U.S. agents were easily able to obtain three out of seven US passports that they had filed fraudulent applications for, said an official with the Government Accountability Office (GAO). "State's passport issuance process continues to be ...

PHOENIX The fight over Arizonas immigration law showed no signs of letting up Friday as the federal judge who blunted its force faced threats and the Republican governor who signed it considered changes to address any faults. In the days since U.S. ...

Nora Nendivin (R) hugs with Marcela Saragoza in front of the Capitol Museum in Phoenix, Arizona State, the United States, July 28, 2010. The federal regional court announced that four provisions of the controversial Arizona state migratory law SB1070 had ...