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Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former vice-president Al Gore's San Francisco-based Current TV media venture, were detained March 17 while reporting on DPRK refugees living in China. A brief dispatch by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News ...

In a statement this week, 16 synod bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) have expressed deep concern over the damage done to communities and families by US immigration raids, ...

[Editor's Note: A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court makes it difficult for asylum-seekers to challenge deportation orders. At most, it gives the petitioner a temporary relief, writes Rochelle Bobroff and Harper Jean Tobin of the Federal Rights ...

SAN JOSE, CA ? Now that the economic stimulus plan has gained momentum, what about President Barack Obama?s promise on immigration reform? Chairperson of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Immigration Task Force and Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) ...

The Obama administration has alerted the Pakistan Government to 'absolutely stop' cross border terrorism in India, US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher has said.'It is important for Pakistan to stop the groups that carry out terrorism in ...

I don't know how well it will work. Maybe it can be like the European Union system where they can go from one country to another without visa. Thanks, Chris. Will comment further, later. Why the incomplete title? The title above re: a father, son and ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Pakistani officials say a suspected U.S. missile attack has killed at least four people in a stronghold of the Taliban and al-Qaida near the Afghan border. Three intelligence officials said several missiles hit a religious ...

Federal customs officers busted a tractor-trailer loaded with carrots and more than $5 million in methamphetamine hidden in the trailer?s floor this past weekend. Officers working at the Pharr, TX, border checkpoint inspected a commercial load of ...

WASHINGTON: Top US senators on Friday underscored the need for India and Pakistan to reduce troops on the Kashmir border to allow Islamabad to fight the Taliban on its Afghan border more effectively. ?Once the elections in India are over and ...

In some seventeen days, the much discussed U.S. passport rule will become official. That means that Caribbean and other Americans and legal residents returning to the U.S. from travel in the Caribbean, as well as Bermuda, Mexico and Canada, will be ...

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A B. C. couple were sentenced to jail yesterday for cross-border human smuggling. Jas Binning will serve six months in prison for sneaking people into the United States from Canada through a Vancouver-area border crossing. His wife, Jagdeep Binning, was ...

Mingora: Pakistani officials say a suspected US missile attack has killed at least four people in a stronghold of the Taliban and Al Qaida near the Afghan border. Three intelligence officials speaking anonymously said that several missiles hit a ...

y is making a huge splash out of this story Census data from the Mexican government indicate an extraordinary decline in the number of Mexican immigrants going to the United States. The recently released data show that about 226,000 fewer people ...

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In the weeks following the al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Centre, sales of the tranquilizer Xanax shot up 22 per cent in New York and, in many respects, America's collective anxiety level never seemed to go down. Checkpoint America What is a border ...

LOS ANGELES, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Four U.S. citizens, all from Southern California, were found dead in Tijuana, a Mexican town bordering the United States, a newspaper report said on Friday. The bodies of two men and two women bore 'signs of violence,' the ...

Mexico City - Two decapitated bodies and two heads were found Friday in different locations in a northern Mexican village near the US border close to Ciudad Juarez. The authorities of the state of Chihuahua said police first found the headless bodies of ...

Washington, May 15 (IANS) Asserting that 'handcuffing' employers from hiring talented workers will hurt the US economy, two experts have criticised proposals to limit hiring of holders of H-1B visas coveted by Indian technocrats as 'misguided.' 'In order ...

The idea of closing the border with Mexico was raised as one possible defense against the spread of the swine flu, but rejected. Alan Bersin, the Obama administration's 'border czar,' more formally known as assistant secretary for Interal Affairs and ...