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Statement from Angela M. Kelley, Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy at the Center for American Progress, regarding President Obamas remarks on comprehensive immigration reform at American University: 'President Barack Obama boldly ...

But it is a practice that Governor Deval Patricks opponents in the governors race are urging Massachusetts to revive. The Patrick administration has staunchly opposed having state troopers enforce immigration laws, and shortly after he took office ...

US Republican rep: terror org may be working with drug cartels. A Hizbullah terror cell may be operating among drugs cartels around the US-Mexican border, announced US Republican National Committee Representative Sue Myrick, according to a Fox News ...

Reporting from Phoenix Rafael Robles has been eligible to vote ever since he became a U.S. citizen 23 years ago, but nothing has spurred him to register until two young activists visited his house here last week. The canvassers were part of an ambitious ...

last The people who payed with one yuan notes sound like douchebags, if you have that much money, you shouldnt have to squabble with the workers over the cost of the meal ...

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. ...

WASHINGTON - In his first major speech on the issue, President Barack Obama on Thursday called for immigration reform legislation that would include a pathway to citizenship for the country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants but said it could not ...

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 unfolded on ...

How often in recent times have you heard of a group of Muslims filing a formal protest over some action, be it large or tiny, done or said by our Christian citizens for whom this country was founded? Plenty, Id bet; as I know it seems that way to me. Any ...

A US immigration judge on Wednesday ruled in favor of an asylum petition from Mosab Hasan Yousef, the son of a prominent Hamas sheikh who converted to Christianity and worked as an undercover agent for Israel, after the US Department of Homeland ...

President Obama tried to put the contentious issue of immigration reform back on the table with a speech last week, but there were reasons to wonder how much political capital he is willing to spend to overhaul the broken system. Clue No. 1 that Obama... ...

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 ...

July 06--Grade C, Mr. President. That's how I rate your speech on immigration, pitched as a message 'to make the clear case for comprehensive immigration reform.' Americans don't need to be mollycoddled with phrasings from the Statue of Liberty and ...

Obama began with a review of the key role immigration has played in the development of the United States, including fueling a youthful work force essential to economic expansion. He described how various waves of newcomers, from Poles and Irish to ...

Reporting from Phoenix Rafael Robles has been eligible to vote ever since he became a U.S. citizen 23 years ago, but nothing has spurred him to register until two young activists visited his house here last week. The canvassers were part of an ambitious ...

By Colleen Long New York - An imam who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into a suicide bomb plot against New York City subway stations has been deported. The lawyer for Ahmad Afzali says Afzali and his wife left on a Saudi ...

The Farmers Branch City Council was warned by its former city manager that litigation over its immigration ordinance would be costly and that similar issues were already being litigated by the city of Hazleton, Pa., "with somebody else's money," ...

At dinner recently here in Washington D.C., one of our good friendsbright, well informed, and politically activeadvised my wife and myself that she and her friends have recently been up on Capitol Hill lobbying for the Dream Act. 'Those poor kids ...

Lisa Anne O?Connor Dalton first saw Boston from the water a decade ago, when she sailed into the city as a crew member on one of the Tall Ships that had crossed the Atlantic. She fell for Boston, hard, and came back as soon as she could. Seven years ago, ...

This week as always, Both Sides Now sought to clarify differences or bridge them. With Federer and King losing their crowns this week, it appeared that Kagan was winning her robes. Arianna and Susan Molinari (sitting in for a traveling Mary Matalin) ...