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SAN DIEGOA moderate earthquake has rocked Southern California. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-5.7 quake was centered five miles southeast of Ocotillo near the U.S.-Mexico border. It was initially reported as a magnitude-5.9 temblor. The ...

Washington -- The Supreme Court blocked the government Monday from routinely deporting legal immigrants for minor drug-possession convictions, a decision that immigrant-rights lawyers said will spare tens of thousands of otherwise law-abiding residents ...

Arizona is considering a new proposal that would deny the children of illegal immigrants born in America their constitutional right to US citizenship. The birthright citizenship movement in the United States has slowly grown over the years and has begun ...

Listen WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. government contractor is still assembling a key passport component in Thailand despite repeated warnings about security risks, ABC News reported. In a report conducted jointly with the Center for Public ...

WASHINGTONA single tablet of an anti-anxiety drug got Jose Angel Carachuri-Rosendo 10 days in jail in Texas and a quick deportation to his native Mexico. Too quick, a unanimous Supreme Court said Monday, in a ruling that could affect thousands of legal ...

Border wait times at the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ont., with Detroit, Mich., will now be posted on Twitter as part of a pilot project to communicate wait times at all land border crossings between Canada and the United States. (Dave ...

Shown here is Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. (FNC) America's mayors on Monday went on record in opposition to Arizona's immigration law, voting for a pair of resolutions that would amount to one of the broadest condemnations to date of the policy. The ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Republican nominee for a New Mexico congressional seat suggested during a radio interview that the United States could place land mines along the Mexican border to secure the international boundary. Asked Monday to clarify, Tom ...

- Question: I have a Masters Degree in Business Administration and want to obtain an H-1B. Are they all used up yet? Answer: The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on May 24, 2005, that it has received approximately 6,400 H-1B ...

By Matthew Mosk, Matthew Cole, Brian Ross, and John Solomon - ABC News | Published: 06/14/10 at 7:07 PM | Updated: 06/14/10 at 7:07 PM The U.S. government agency that prints passports has for years failed to resolve persistent concerns about the security ...

WASHINGTON Immigrants who are legally in the United States need not be automatically deported for minor drug offenses, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a unanimous decision. Lower courts had said that Jose Angel Carachuri-Rosendo, a permanent resident ...

As the 78th Annual Meeting of The U.S. Conference of Mayors wraps up in Oklahoma City, mayors in America have come together at the Cox Convention Center to debate and vote on policy resolutions that impact working families all across the country. In the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY The U.S. Conference of Mayors has approved resolutions condemning Arizona's new immigration law and asking Congress for an overhaul of federal immigration policies. Conference spokeswoman Elena Temple-Webb says both resolutions were ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A Republican running for a congressional seat suggested during a radio interview that the United States could place land mines along the Mexican border to secure the international boundary. Asked Monday to clarify, Tom Mullins ...

This from todays Wall Street Journal: In a letter sent Sunday to U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral James Watson, BP said it expects to have the capacity to capture between 40,000 and 53,000 barrels of oil a day by the end of June. That compares with ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A Republican running for a congressional seat suggested during a radio interview that the United States could place land mines along the Mexican border to secure the international boundary. Asked Monday to clarify, Tom Mullins ...

BusinessWire - As the 78th Annual Meeting of The U.S. Conference of Mayors wraps up in Oklahoma City, mayors in America have come together at the Cox Convention Center to debate and vote on policy resolutions that impact working families all across the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY - The U.S. Conference of Mayors has approved resolutions condemning Arizona's new immigration law and asking Congress for an overhaul of federal immigration policies. Conference spokeswoman Elena Temple-Webb says both resolutions were ...

MEXICO CITY -- Ten federal police officers were killed Monday after being attacked by unidentified gunmen near a vocational high school in western Mexico. The officers were returning from a patrol when they came under fire from the gang in the city of ...

OKLAHOMA CITY The U.S. Conference of Mayors has approved resolutions condemning Arizona's new immigration law and asking Congress for an overhaul of federal immigration policies. Conference spokeswoman Elena Temple-Webb says both resolutions were ...