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Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) We are a nation of laws. If we don't have the fortitude to enforce them now when will we? To be honest, the Federal Government should be ashamed that the States are now, in essence, telling ineffectual and inept Federal ...

Philip Caputo; David Danelo; Margaret Regan About the Program From the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books a panel on writing on and living near the U.S. and Mexican Border. The panelists include Margaret Regan, The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from ...

Tags: Hillary Clinton Israel Obama President Barack Obama has done away with two key elements of US-Israeli strategic relations: His administration has given up on stiff UN Security Council sanctions on Iran over its nuclear drive, and gone back on the ...

A proposal by three U.S. senators would stiffen many of the regulations surrounding H-1B and L1 visas, including an increase in U.S. worker displacement protection and restricting the number of H-1B and L-1 employees that certain U.S. companies could ...

Very few Americans are inherently opposed to immigration, writes David Harsanyi. For the most part, the controversy we currently face isn't about immigration at all. It's about the systematic failure of federal government to enforce the law or offer ...

Documents which are the key to an America of milk and honey and a house in the suburbs - the dream of countless Israelis - carry a heavy price: a too-close relationship with the IRS. Ran Dagoni, Washington29 Apr 10 17:27 Shmuel Sternfeld, an Israeli ...

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There's a lot of nattering about how the state of Arizona simply had to take things into its own hands given the abject failure of the feds to "get control" of the border with Mexicoover the past decade. Folks across the spectrum have acknowledged that ...

Tens of thousands of outraged protesters took to the streets of Washington DC on May Day demanding President Barack Obama step in over Arizona's immigration law. Known worldwide as International Workers Day, the history of the holiday in the US ...

Two decades ago, when Arizona voters rejected a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the NFL yanked the Super Bowl from suburban Phoenix. The boycott marked a major turning point in the journey to nationwide acceptance of the King holiday. Today, Arizona, a ...

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., speak about a border security plan to fight illegal immigration and criminal activity along the Arizona-Mexico border during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 19, 2010. ...

Arizona college administrators say they are concerned about the effects the state's new immigration law, which Gov. Jan Brewer signed this week, will have on their campuses. Some out-of-state students have already told the University of Arizona they are ...

Not everyone is down on Arizona. While leading immigration rights groups have staged protests and called for boycotting Arizona businesses over the state's new immigration law, some outside groups are coming to the state's defense and organizing ...

The battle over financial regulatory overhaul continued Wednesday with the third in a series of votes designed to permit debate to begin on the bill. But, for the third time the vote failed 56 to 42. Sixty votes are needed before the bill would proceed ...

A newly inaugurated President Barack Obama pledged to tackle immigration reform during his first year in office. But no legislation has been passed, major workplace raids that made headlines during the Bush Administration are a distant memory, and no new ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to rally across the United States Saturday in a protest at a tough new immigration law in Arizona that has triggered an outcry from rights groups. Demonstrations are planned in more than 70 ...

The Episcopal Church has responded to a controversial Arizona law expelling undocumented immigrants from the state by calling for comprehensive reform and justice for migrants. The law, roundly condemned by human rights and faith groups, will also ...

Officials have said that increasing drug-related violence along the U. S.-Mexico border remains mostly on the Mexican side, sparing many Arizona border towns. The Arizona Republic reported on Sunday that Crime rates in Nogales, Douglas, Yuma and other ...

Arizona has decided that if the federal government will not live up to its responsibility to control the border, Arizona will. Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, signed a bill that allows police officers to inquire about a person's immigration status if ...

FRANKLIN, Vt. - This is one sleepy border crossing. At the Morses Line Port of Entry, on the U.S.-Canada border, the border station is smack-dab in the middle of a Vermont dairy farm. On average, 21/2 cars pass through an hour. The pace is so slow that ...