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The cost of obtaining a green card, business visa and other immigration benefits will increase an average of 10 percent under a proposal announced Wednesday by federal immigration officials. But, in a move hailed by immigrant advocates, officials decided ...

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Lori Berenson, jailed 15 years ago for involvement in leftwing rebel group, is not a popular figure among local residents in Lima Lori Berenson has a mild manner, a bad back, an infant son and dreams of opening a bakery but for her new neighbours, ...

Mexico has slammed the U.S. for its disproportionate use of force after a boy of 14 was shot dead by an American Border Patrol officer. U.S. officials claim the guard was defending himself and his colleagues when he gunned down the teenager on the ...

In 2006, an image made headlines showing a man sewn into a car seat in an attempt to illegally cross the Mexican/U.S. border. Now U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have shared images of some of their most bizarre busts in the war on the smuggling of ...

The Obama administration is requesting rate increases on most immigration applications, three years after the last round of hikes. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Wednesday proposed a new set of prices, citing efforts to close a $200 million ...

Pointing their rifles, Mexican security forces chased away U.S. authorities investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande, the FBI and witnesses told The Associated Press on Wednesday. ...

Mexicans are seething over the second death of a countryman at the hands of US border patrol agents in two weeks, an incident near downtown El Paso that is threatening to escalate tensions over migrant issues. US authorities said Tuesday a border patrol ...

EL PASO, Texas, June 9 - U.S. and Mexican authorities are investigating the cross-border shooting death of a Mexican teenager by a U.S. border agent, officials say. The shooting of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca of Juarez on the Mexican side of the ...

WASHINGTON - Transgender travellers no longer will need surgery in order to change their stated genders on U.S. passports, the State Department said. Beginning Thursday, a transgender person applying for a U.S. passport will just need to show a ...

WASHINGTON ? Pointing their rifles, Mexican security forces chased away U.S. authorities investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande, the FBI and witnesses told the Associated Press on ...

In the second killing of a Mexican citizen by the US Border Patrol in less than two weeks, an agent shot and killed a 15-year-old youth Monday evening at the El Paso, Texas-Ciudad Juarez crossing. Sergio Adrin Hernndez Gereka, who had just ...

The US Citizenship and Immigration services are hoping to increase fees for the application for permanent residency to make up for lost revenue. The application for a green card would go up to a total of $1,050 including the fingerprinting fee. Right ...

tags: Arizona Immigration Law, Eric Holder, News, NewsRealblog, PERF, Politics, sanctuary city How would you feel if your son was gunned down by an illegal alien who had just been released from jail (not deported, but released)? How would you feel if ...

For the second time in three years, federal authorities are seeking increases for most immigration applications as a result of a decline in agency revenue brought about by fewer applications being filed because of the recession. The head of the Homeland ...

A video obtained by CNN casts doubt on a U.S. Border Patrol agent's claim that he fatally shot a 14-year-old boy in Ciudad Juarez while he was surrounded by rock-throwing suspected illegal immigrants. CNN obtained the video, which was shot by a witness ...

Jane and Steve Fried always wanted to make aliya. Steve, who had a very religious and Zionist upbringing, lived on a kibbutz during his college years and came back to Israel during the Yom Kippur War to offer his services. Jane also had a strong desire ...

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Mexico strongly condemned the US Border Patrol's 'disproportionate' use of force after an agent shot dead a 14-year-old Mexican boy who was throwing rocks on a bridge linking the two nations. The boy died after a border patrol officer opened fire from ...