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BOSTON A trial has begun in Boston for a former top U.S. Department of Homeland Security official accused of encouraging her Brazilian housekeeper to remain in the United States illegally. Lorraine Henderson was a regional director of homeland security, ...

Reporting from Athens Ancient Greece gave the world the word 'xenophobia.' Modern Greece is providing examples of it. Hamad Amiri, a young Afghan immigrant, arrived to work at his brother's cellphone store in Athens on a recent morning only to find that ...

By OLIVIA TORRES CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Suspected drug gang hit men separately ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate in this violent border city, killing an American couple and a Mexican man. Three young children ...

'The idea that the president hasbeen unwavering on immigration doesn't really pass the smell test,' Graham said. 'One line in the State of the Union that was unnoticeable is not 'unwavering.' A hastily called meeting Thursday because of a ...

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U.S. Chamber Continues to Support Legal Immigration and Invites the AFL-CIO Back to the Negotiating Table 'Legal immigration programs are too important to American competitiveness to continue being used as the scapegoat during this economic crisis,' ...

Q What can we do about Obama and the birth certificate thing? CUCCINELLI: It will get tested in my view when someone when he signs a law, and someone is convicted of violating it and one of their defenses will be it is not a law because someone ...

MEXICO CITY - Three people associated with the U.S. Consulate in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez have been killed in drive-by shootings, U.S. officials said yesterday. Two of the dead were U.S. citizens, and the third was the Mexican spouse of a ...

Editors note: Please see correction/update at the end of this report. An article in the March 14 UK Observer reports that United Kingdoms asylum immigration system is systematically denying claims of torture by asylum applicants, despite ample ...

LA UNION, Mexico Gunmen believed linked to drug traffickers shot and killed an American consulate worker and her husband in the violence-racked border town of Ciudad Jurez over the weekend, leaving their baby wailing in the back seat of their car, ...

King Statement on White House Immigration Meeting WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Steve King (R-IA), the Ranking Member on the House Immigration Subcommittee, made the following statement regarding the immigration meeting held today at the White House to ...

BOSTON A former top Homeland Security official from Boston is set to go on trial for allegedly encouraging her housekeeper to remain in the United States illegally. Lorraine Henderson, former regional director of Homeland Security, Customs, and Border ...

Hawaii employers are seeking out fewer foreign workers as the lingering effects of the recession continue to cool demand for the once highly prized H-1B temporary work visa. Business apprehension over hiring has contributed to a tepid economic rebound, ...

American Samoa's Governor, Togiola Tulafono, has announced that he will be sending legislation to the Fono this week which will establish a new citizenship category called American Samoans. All babies born in American Samoa are US nationals but the ...

WASHINGTON - The backlog of deportation, political-asylum and other cases awaiting a hearing in federal immigration courts has reached an all-time high even as a record number of judgeships remained unfilled, according to a report released Friday. The ...

Two Americans, a U.S. consulate employee and her husband, were killed in a drive-by shooting in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican border city wracked by drug violence, the White House said Sunday. President Barack Obama 'is deeply saddened and outraged by the ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) may be working with the White House to craft an immigration reform proposal, but you wouldn't know it from his comments Sunday morning.The South Carolina Republican had no kind words for the president's efforts on the topic, ...

Moumita Bakshi Chatterjee New Delhi, March 14 A turnaround in business sentiment and improved demand are expected to drive Indian IT firms to apply for higher number of H-1B visas this year compared to 2009, when global uncertainty had lowered the ...

WASHINGTON - The State Department is authorizing U.S. government employees at six U.S. consulates in northern Mexico to send their family members out of the area because of concerns about rising drug-related violence. The department says the family ...

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