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On his Fox Business show, Eric Bolling claimed that "President Obama has cut spending on the border in half." In reality, the Customs and Border Patrol budget has increased under Obama, the number of Border Patrol personnel has increased, and spending on ...

The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is at the center of controversy. Last week, NATO forces on the Afghan side fired across at what they thought were insurgents, and killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers. Officials are investigating. E-Mail ...

Huge amounts of money are wasted on immigration detention in the US it's inhumane, unjust, and possibly unconstitutional Under the US constitution, people are entitled to all sorts of rights, particularly around personal liberties and freedoms. The ...

LEEDS, Ala. A judge has dropped immigration and driving charges against a Japanese employee at a Honda car plant in Alabama, the second foreign auto worker who had been charged under a new state law against illegal immigration. The worker, whose name ...

BEIJING - Chinese citizens applying for US visas will face shorter wait times in the future as the US embassy vowed to speed up the visa application process. The pledge comes amid an online campaign to stop the use of a call center which charges premium ...

A US federal jury has convicted a Ghanaian woman to a maximum sentence of 35 years in prison after she was found using a fake identity to get US citizenship. Lady Jacqueline Locotin, also known as Joyce Amene Obese, a native of Ghana, was convicted in ...

02/12/2011 All properly completed FY 2012 H-1B cap petitions received on or before November 22, 2011 will be processed to completion. USCIS has confirmed that it will not conduct an H-1B cap lottery for FY 2012. All properly completed H-1B cap petitions ...

More than 60 percent of adult illegal immigrants in the U.S. have lived here for at least 10 years and nearly half have minor children, according to a report published Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center. The analysis based on data from the March 2010 ...

According to Wall Street Journal, U.S. officials, giving their first detailed explanation of the worst friendly-fire incident of the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, said an Afghan-led assault force that included American commandos were hunting Taliban ...

A judge has dropped immigration and driving charges against a Japanese employee at a Honda car plant in Alabama, the second foreign auto worker who had been charged under a new state law against illegal immigration. The worker, whose name wasn't ...

Instead of getting help, Mendoza got taken when the man turned out to be a scam artist who pocketed nearly $1,000 of her money in 1999 and never submitted a single document. Now the 48-year-old mother of three is at risk of being deported. "I feel bad ...

One week ago today, I arose before dawn and went to buy coffee and a newspaper at a southwest Florida 7-Eleven. I was the lone white guy in a convenience store jammed with Latinos wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the names of lawn services whose trucks ...

Miami, USA (AFP) - A Japanese employee of automaker Honda was issued an immigration citation in Alabama for driving without a license, officials said Thursday, less than a month after a Mercedes-Benz executive was stopped. The Japan-based employee, whose ...

NEWARK Immigration services scams are getting so sophisticated that fraudsters now advertise online with websites that perfectly mimic those of official government agencies, federal officials said Thursday as they rolled out a nationwide awareness ...

The influx of immigrants to Alaska is apparent, particularly in the states larger cities. But a newly released study shows the states immigrant populationboth authorized and unauthorizedis lower per capita than the U.S. average. Nor ...

An 85-year-old woman who led a female-dominated immigrant-smuggling ring was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday. Felicitas Gurrola was charged with moving up to 80 people a month past border inspectors at the nation's busiest border crossing in ...

The national grassroots group Immigration Voice today praised the House of Representatives upon passage of the bill, H.R. 3012, the Fairness for High-skilled Immigrants Act. The House of Representatives approved the bill, sponsored by ...

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MEXICO CITY, Dec 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) - A total of 36.4 tons of marijuana were seized in the "most sophisticated tunnel on the border" between Mexico and the United States. Local media reported that 32.4 tons were seized on the U.S. side and four tons in ...

Los Angeles Times Updated: 12/01/2011 05:42:39 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- More than 60 percent of adult illegal immigrants in the U.S. have lived here for at least 10 years and nearly half have minor children, according to a report published Thursday by the ...