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LIMA (Reuters) - American Lori Berenson, released from a jail in Peru last week, was branded a "public nuisance" on Monday by a Peruvian official who said the government could decide to deport her from the country soon. Berenson, who was freed on parole ...

Whistleblower lawsuit raises troubling questions about cross-border commerce As the Oba administration prepares to send to the Southwest to secure the border, it may well be the nations northern border with Canada that has already been breached. A ...

T The best solution to the immigration question is Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation at the federal level that will: Provide a path to permanent resident status and citizenship for all members of our communities; Reunite families and reduce ...

MOSCOW, May 31 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow has so far not received a U.S. reply regarding the deployment of American Patriot missiles in Poland near the Russian border, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said. ?We do not understand why was it necessary to ...

President Barack Obama has taken a dramatic step regarding the immigration problems that are wracking the nation's purse and conscience. Out of the blue, he is sending 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to back up the Border Patrol. He ...

The U.S. Census Bureau is counting illegal immigrants facing deportation in detention centers across the country about 30,000 people on any given day. ...

MONTREAL - A deportation hearing will be held Wednesday for a man arrested aboard a Mexico-bound flight diverted to Montreal on the weekend. Immigration Department spokesman Robert Gervais says the details of the arrest will be made public at the ...

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A lot of Arizonans are upset about illegal immigration, and to learn why, you can't do better than the letter from Arizona State Sen. Sylvia Allen. Widely circulated on the Internet, it provides a pungent statement of the frustrations behind the new law ...

MONTREAL - A deportation hearing will be held Wednesday for a man arrested aboard a Mexico-bound flight diverted to Montreal on the weekend. Immigration Department spokesman Robert Gervais says the details of the arrest will be made public at the ...

TACOMA, Wash. Paulo Sergio Alfaro-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant being held at a detention center in Washington state, had no idea that the federal government would count him in the census. No one gave him a census form. No one told him his information ...

By JULIAN AGUILAR The number of cases awaiting resolution in the federal immigration detention system has reached an all-time high, driven in part by surging backlogs in Texas, especially in San Antonio and El Paso. Blame it on too few judges. Nearly ...

- Border Patrol agent Hugo Moya tracks undocumented immigrants believed to be hiding in the area along the north shore of the Rio Grande River which forms the border between the U.S. and Mexico near McAllen, Texas. During the 2009 fiscal year, 540,865 ...

Citizenship can only be gained one of two ways; through birthright or through naturalization. Birthright covers all persons born on U.S. soil, born to U.S. citizen parents or born to U.S. citizen grandparents. Naturalization refers to persons who... ...

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Panel approves 6,000 troops for border over Obama protest John McCain, a former Navy boxer, must appreciate a political knockout when he scores one. He's not quite there yet but he demonstrated some fancy footwork Thursday that could stun the White House ...

Comments: J.D. Hayworth sat quietly while David Gregory and Luis Gutierrez told each other how wonderful illegal immigrants are. J.D. was a prop. Any Republican who appears on 'Meet the Press' is a fool. ...

This past Tuesday, President Obama announced that he intends to send 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. He also plans on asking Congress for $500 million dollars to target the smuggling of people, drugs, money, and weapons into the ...

Dozens of immigrant families will be holding vigil overnight outside President Obama's Kenwood home asking him again to take the lead on immigration reform. The activists are asking the President to pay special attention to students and members of the ...

Supporters and critics of the Arizona immigration law held rallies in the Phoenix area Saturday. The anti-law rally appeared larger, but the pro-law forces have more national support, polls say. People recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of a ...