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In his first major speech on the issue since taking office, President Barack Obama said that the US immigration system 'offends our most basic American values' and blamed Republican opposition for thwarting critically needed change. It was the third time ...

WASHINGTON ? President Obama pressed Congress yesterday to adopt a sweeping plan to fix a ?fundamentally broken?? immigration system, taking on a volatile issue that has inflamed passions in a weak economy heading into the fall midterm campaign. In his ...

(By William Douglas, McClatchy Newspapers) President Barack Obama on Thursday once again urged Congress to tackle comprehensive legislation to overhaul immigration law, citing the urgency of Arizona passing its own punitive statute in the absence of ...

MS. MITCHELL: We are joined now by the governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, who knows more about this issue than a lot of our other guests. So Governor, good to see you. From your perspective in the Southwest, you really see all of those competing ...

Tags: Barack Obama, health care, hiring workers, Immigration reform The US President, Mr Barack Obama, has renewed his push for comprehensive immigration reform, his third major domestic priority after health care and financial reforms, highlighting the ...

UNITED States (U.S.) President Barack Obama has given new momentum behind the push for an immigration overhaul by explaining why he thought a comprehensive approach was the only way to fix what he and others said was a system badly in need of repair. ...

SAN DIEGO (BP)--Political asylum in the United States is 'just the beginning' of a campaign to change the Middle East by changing the Islamist ideology that fans hatred and prevents peace, Mosab Hassan Yousef told a news conference after an immigration ...

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Nearly two dozen people were killed in a Mexican border area during a fierce clash between suspected members of rival drug gangs, Mexican authorities said. ...

Reporting from Phoenix Police officers enforcing a controversial new Arizona immigration law cannot use race to form a suspicion that someone is in the country illegally, but can rely on people's ability to speak English, their dress and whether they ...

President Barack Obama says America's borders are too vast to solve the problem of illegal immigration purely with fences and border patrols. [ABC] Kim Landers, Washington The US President Barack Obama is demanding sweeping reforms to his ...

United States president Barack Obama is demanding sweeping reforms to his country's immigration policies. But it is unclear whether the US Congress will act before November's mid-term elections. In his first major speech on immigration reform since ...

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Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) Many coming to U.S. being used to ferry drugs, Brewer says Arizona Governor Jan Brewer declared that many illegal Mexican immigrants crossing into the border are being used to transport narcotics - 'mules' for drug ...

Recent protests against a contested law in Arizona. (Getty) In his first major speech on the issue since taking office, President Barack Obama said that the US immigration system "offends our most basic American values" and blamed Republican opposition ...

The clash occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles from the Arizona border - a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling. Sonora's Attorney General's Office said in a statement that nine people were captured by police at the scene of ...