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In July 2008, the U.S.Department of State began issuing passport cards as a lower-cost alternative to passports for U.S. citizens to meet Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative requirements. In October 2008, the State Departmentbegan issuing the second ...

Washington.The Obama administration launched a legal attack on Arizona's strict new immigration law Tuesday, arguing that only Washington can set the nation's rules for arresting illegal immigrants. The government said Tuesday its immigration ...

The administration argued the Arizona law, which requires state and local police to investigate the immigration status of anyone they reasonably suspect of being an illegal immigrant, is unconstitutional and would sap law enforcement resources. The ...

The cost of harboring illegal immigrants in the United States is a staggering $113 billion a year -- an average of $1,117 for every native-headed household in America -- according to a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration ...

Text Size bs-ed-nuclear-letter-20100706 What a stirring article by Dan Rodricks about new citizens being sworn in July 4. I was fortunate enough several years ago to attend the swearing in of a Russian migr. I wish all Americans could have a chance ...

AFP//File A view of the fence separating the cities of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora Mexico. Americans are Slideshow:Immigration Reform Debate Play Video Immigration Video:Ceremony Welcomes New U.S. Citizens CBS4 Miami Play Video ...

A Jewish Red Army veteran speaks at the "Writings and Reflections of Jewish Soldiers in the Red Army" exhibit in Moscow. (Anna Rudnitskaya) Read more ...

When Obama could have passed comprehensive immigration reform when he still had 60 Senate Democrats he didnt lift a finger to push it. Now that he cant pass it it is too late in the year, he doesnt have 60 votes and many Democrats ...

Wash Times, Eli Lake Original article As Israel's prime minister prepares for his fifth official meeting with President Obama this week, the White House has declined to publicly affirm commitments made by President Bush to Israel in 2004 on the final ...

This year at the , G4S, a leading supplier of comprehensive security solutions, displayed a specially fortified 15-passenger transportation van. G4S is helping out under a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to transport ...

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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on Tuesday he would favor immigration reform that would deport most of the residents of the U.S. who are here illegally. McCain, who at one point had been the top Republican advocate for comprehensive reform, said he ...

Hizbullah might be working with drug cartels on the US-Mexico border, according to a letter cited by Fox News on Tuesday. The letter, writen by Republican congresswoman Sue Myrick to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, called on US authorities ...

A better welcome for our nation's immigrants On our national birthday, and amid an angry debate about immigration, Americans should reflect on the lessons of our shared immigrant past. We must recall that the challenges facing our nation today were ...

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CALGARY A Toronto area man who came to Calgary after an investment deal went sour was found tied in his Range Rover only a few hundred metres from the border as his alleged abductors tried to take him to the United States.Police say the incident ...

PHOENIX The U.S. Justice Department is filing a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and state over the nation's toughest immigration ...

A top regional official with U.S. Customs and Border Protection is going to be meeting with residents of the Vermont border community of Derby Line to talk about what some residents feel is heavy-handed policing along the U.S.-Canadian border. ...

A Hezbollah terror cell may be operating among drugs cartels around the U.S.-Mexican border, announced U.S. Republican National Committee Rep. Sue Myrick, according to a Fox News report. Myrick requested U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ...

PRINCETON, N.J. -- As President Barack Obama renews his call for a comprehensive approach to addressing illegal immigration, Americans are about equally divided -- 50% to 45% -- over whether the government's main focus should be on halting the flow of ...