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WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama is in favour of a comprehensive immigration reform, but this can't be done without the support of the Republicans, the White House has said. As Obama held second consecutive meeting on this issue at the White House, ...

June 29: Hurricane Alex is seen as it closes in on land near the Mexico-Texas border. BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- Hurricane Alex churned westward through the Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday, far from oil spill cleanup efforts but on a collision course with ...

SAN DIEGO The 32-year-old son of one of Hamas' founders is getting his turn in U.S. immigration court. Mosab Hassan Yousef argues before an immigration judge in San Diego on Wednesday that he will be killed if deported because he was a top spy for Israel ...

US President Barack Obama is in favour of a comprehensive immigration reform, but this can't be done without the support of the Republicans, the White House has said. As Obama held second consecutive meeting on this issue at the White House, Press ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland of Security ruled more than a year ago that Mosab Hassan Yousef should be denied asylum because he has "engaged in terrorist activity" and is a "danger to the security of the United States." Now it's up to an immigration ...

Despite much-publicized racial tensions on the campus last semester, UC San Diego has managed to slightly raise its still small numbers of African American freshman for the fall, according to statistics released by the campus Tuesday. Some students and ...

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President Barack Obama hosted two groups of lawmakers at the White House Tuesday on a pair of legislative issues that have divided the Democratic Party and competed for his attention. He met first with a bipartisan group of senators for talks on the way ...

WASHINGTON - PRESIDENT Barack Obama is following up two days of meetings on US immigration policy with a speech on Thursday on the need for a comprehensive solution to what he and others have said is a broken system. Mr Obama discussed immigration and ...

By Denny Walsh dwalsh@sacbeec.om Luciana Harmath, once a contract Romanian interpreter for a now-defunct Sacramento law firm, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to four months in prison for her role as a conspirator in a years-long, massive ...

Tropical storm Alex strengthened into the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic season late on Tuesday and is expected to intensify in strength before making landfall on Wednesday night near the US-Mexico border. AFP - Authorities issued warnings in Texas ...

It would be a revival worthy of Lazarus, but President Obama is making a renewed push for an immigration overhaul, possibly during a lame-duck session of Congress after the November election when members would no longer face an imminent political ...

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama huddled Tuesday with Latino lawmakers at the White House on efforts to overcome hurdles and jump-start the legislative process for a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year. Obama met with members of the ...

Despite their high hopes for the Obama administration, it was clear they had made little headway with their message that the government's ever-increasing emphasis on border enforcement is futile. They decided they needed to rethink their strategies, and ...

President Barack Obama's $600 million border security plan seems to have it all: More than 1,000 agents, seven gunrunner teams, five FBI task forces and more prosecutors and immigration judges. But it doesn't include $40 million to help the already ...

President Obama is reviving the thorny issue of immigration this week. He sent administration officials to Arizona on Monday to advertise his efforts on border security, while he is encouraging supporters of an immigration overhaul to focus their ire on ...

ABC News' Devin Dwyer reports: President Obama today met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the White House to discuss comprehensive immigration reform ahead of his planned Thursday address on the issue from American University. Rep. ...

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President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a speech Thursday morning on the need to fix our broken immigration system through comprehensive immigration reform, the White House announced today. The presidents remarks will be delivered at the ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is capping two days of meetings on U.S. immigration policy with a speech Thursday on the need to fix what he and others have said is a broken system. Obama discussed immigration and his speech at the White House on ...