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WASHINGTON - THE Homeland Security Department will use unmanned surveillance aircraft and other technological upgrades in its ongoing effort to protect the southern border of the United States. The department said Wednesday it has obtained Federal ...

William B. Anderson writes a detailed and impassioned second look at a federal fraud prosecution (with its roots in an immigration raid) and sees gross prosecutorial overreach. The high (low) points: This week, Sholom Rubashkin , who was the ...

BOSTON - A Pakistani man arrested in Maine on an immigration charge during the Times Square bombing investigation is not a danger to the community, but he is a flight risk, a government lawyer said Wednesday. Mohammad Shafiq Rahman, who lives in South ...

Chief executives of several major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp are joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form a coalition advocating for immigration reform - including a path to legal status for all und immigrants ...

Gov't will use unmanned planes in its ongoing effort to protect the southern border of the United States GOP: WH Drafting Amnesty Plan Gov't Offers to Assist Illegals L.A. Makes Ariz. Ban Exception ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) The United States plans to deploy two drone aircraft along the Texas-Mexico border as part of a new effort to stem organized crime and illegal immigration, Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano said Wednesday. The two Predator drones ...

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that border and immigration security is the responsibility of the federal government. Napolitano praised President Obama for his efforts to increase border security in the southwest and added ...

A Mexican man who re-entered the U.S. after being deported at least five times has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison. ...

MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Mexico and the U.S. plan to negotiate an agreement to set rules for the exploitation of cross-border oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico in which each side would have the right to some of the resources, the Mexican Foreign Ministry ...

If we, on the local level, dont protect ourselves and our country, we wont have a country, Councilmember Daryl Hickman said. ...

The website Islam Times reports that the Israeli Air Force landed planes at a Saudi base over the weekend, unloading large quantities of military gear. The report could not be substantiated. Iran's Fars news agency carried the same report. The website ...

Mexico and the United States have agreed to extend a moratorium on exploratory oil and gas drilling along their sea border in the Gulf of Mexico for three years, the Mexican government said on Wednesday. The moratorium, which was due to expire on Jan. 1, ...

BOSTON - A federal official says a Pakistani man arrested on an immigration charge during the investigation of an attempted bombing in New York's Times Square is not a danger to the community. Mohammad Shafiq Rahman, who lives in the northeastern state ...

With a 4-0 vote with Councilman Jim Foreman absent, the decision came after about 90 minutes of emotional comments from speakers on both sides. ...

The shooting of a 15-year-old Juarez, Mexico, boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent is being investigated on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities say. The agent, whom the Border Patrol has not identified, shot Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca ...

Immigration debate is focusing on a new law in Fremont, Neb. It prevents businesses from hiring illegal immigrants and landlords from renting to them. The ACLU will challenge the law, which is similar to laws passed by at least a few dozen other towns ...

PHOENIX - Mexico is asking a federal court in Arizona to declare the state's new immigration law unconstitutional. Lawyers for Mexico on Tuesday submitted a legal brief in support of a lawsuit challenging the law. The law generally requires police ...

**MOVE WITH OVERNIGHT STORY BY LIZ SIDOTI**Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., smiles while on stage as he was joined by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a town hall meeting Friday, June 4, 2010, in Mesa, Ariz. McCain is facing a primary challenge from ...

Fremont in Nebraska has passed laws meaning illegal immigrants cannot work or rent property within its boundaries A small town in the pig-farming and cattle rearing great plains of Nebraska has opened the latest frontline in the battle over ...