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WASHINGTON (AFP) Mexican President Felipe Calderon urged the US government to repair an outmoded immigration system and do more to ensure that illegal guns do not flow across the countries' shared border, in an address to the US Congress Thursday. On the ...

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Vancouver - According to his supporters, Marc Emery was driven across the US border in Washington this morning to face charges for selling cannabis seeds across the world. Emery has been in custody for the last 10 days after surrendering to an ...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon addressed a joint session of Congress on Thursday. He urged U.S. lawmakers to overhaul the immigration system and consider reinstating a ban on assault rifles. ...

One of the biggest complaints about the federal government's H-1B and L-1 visa programs is that they could be used by corporations to hire skilled workers born outside the U.S. at wages lower than the U.S. market rate. Indeed, anti-H-1B visa activists ...

Addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress, Mexican President Felipe Calderon appealed Thursday for an overhaul of U.S. immigration policy and tighter rules on assault rifles. A day after he was wined and dined at the White House, Calderon got a ...

Immigration advocates hoping to be arrested blocked traffic on downtown Seattle streets early Thursday afternoon during a rally calling for a policy that would allow illegal immigrants to become American citizens. The rally began around 11 a.m. at the ...

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Gulf oil spill hits Louisiana wetlands . Financial reform bill stalls in the Senate . Mortgage delinquencies, foreclosures at record highs. The Washington Post looks at Wikileaks. Pakistan government blocks most of the Internet for Draw Mohammed ...

As Mexico's president prepares to address Congress, the tough new immigration law in Arizona is sure to be a centerpiece of his speech. Already, Felipe Caldern has called the law 'discriminatory' against 'our people' and said he wants to work with ...

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Cuban lawmakers have passed a resolution denouncing Arizona's new immigration law as "racist and xenophobic," recalling an old dispute in the process: the argument that the United States' purchase of Arizona from Mexico in the 19th century was tantamount ...

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Mexican President Felipe Calderon has been ripping into Arizona's immigration law as he tours Washington -- while appearing to disregard the way his own country cracks down on immigrants along Mexico's southern border. Mexican President Felipe Calderon ...

A seven-year-old girl's questions to Michelle Obama lays bare the painful reality of the US's immigration problems An unscripted encounter between Michelle Obama and a seven-year-old schoolgirl during a photo opportunity in Maryland has unwittingly ...

US schoolgirl challenges Michelle Obama on immigration Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Michelle Obama asked about immigration during school visit A US schoolgirl has challenged First Lady Michelle Obama during a visit to a ...

WASHINGTON -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon is taking his case for a fair and orderly overhaul of U.S. immigration policies to the people who can do something about it: members of Congress. One day after private meetings with President Barack Obama ...

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Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approx. 9:00 a.m. ET text size A A A May 20, 2010 First lady Michele Obama had a tough question to answer from a little girl concerned about immigration enforcement on Wednesday. The second ...

President Barack Obama said that tightening border security and revamping immigration laws are vital to economic growth in the U.S. and Mexico, as he pledged to aggressively pursue cross-border cooperation. Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full ...