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Previous Issues Comment Supremes Rule On Identity Theft Case The Los Angeles Times reports 'The Supreme Court today took away one tool for prosecuting and deporting workers who are in this country illegally, ruling that the crime of identity theft is ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An illegal immigrant who uses false identification papers must know they belonged to another person to be convicted of identity theft, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The high court's unanimous ruling was a victory for ...

WASHINGTONThe Supreme Court has ruled that an undocumented immigrant who uses a phony Social Security number to get work should not be considered an identity thief unless prosecutors can prove he knew the number belonged to a real person. The court ruled ...

A 49-year-old American man has been charged with several counts, including weapons charges, related to running the Manitoba-U.S. border, but is refusing to discuss the incident with police. Michael Calteaux is currently in custody at the Brandon ...

(Business Wire) VISANOW, the established leader in online U.S. Immigration Services, is expanding its offerings to include International Immigration Services, providing global corporations with a one-stop solution for managing worldwide immigration ...

Millions of Hispanics, mostly poor and uneducated, have immigrated to America illegally since the early 1990s. Most are Mexicans and most of them are high school dropouts. Compared to what they might have had in a slum or impoverished rural area of ...

WASHINGTON: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that illegal immigration makes a significant contribution to US economic growth by providing a flexible workforce. Greenspan also endorsed an expansion of the H-1B visa programme for ...

This story appears in the May 4 print edition of Transport Topics. The Obama administration is continuing to work on a plan to restart cross-border trucking between the United States and Mexico, even as the two countries battle the spread of ??swine ...

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WASHINGTON: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that illegal immigration makes a ?significant? contribution to US economic growth by providing a flexible workforce. Greenspan also endorsed an expansion of the H-1B visa programme for ...

Pakistan edged closer Sunday to a major conflict with Taliban militants as a controversial peace deal with Islamic extremists in the Swat valley near the Afghan border began to unravel, according to military officials and politicians. The confrontation ...

On many questions, President Obama's approach is full speed ahead. On immigration reform, he prefers to take things one step at a time. There really is no alternative. Immigration is politically vexing because it splits both parties and scrambles the ...

Xiu Ping Jiang, in an undated photo, has spent more than a year in jail and faces deportation. Her illness has complicated the process. Twice the immigration judge asked the womans name. Twice she gave it: Xiu Ping Jiang. But he chided her, a Chinese New ...

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the resolution passed by the U.S. Senate in honor of World Press Freedom Day on Sunday, May 3rd. According to the Senate, the resolution S.Res.124 'celebrates the fundamental right of freedom of the press, commends ...

New York. Since US immigration laws got stricter in1996, some 36,000 Dominicans have been deported, though unofficial figures raise the number to 56,000, a fact that has caused a serious crisis in that community, according to a new study. The report, ...

A U.S. man is in police custody in southwestern Manitoba after allegedly driving through a border crossing without stopping in a van loaded with guns, ammunition and a whole lot of gasoline. The unusual incident on Friday afternoon has attracted ...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon thanked Saturday his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama for not closing the border to people and goods, as well as for support in dealing with the epidemic of AH1N1 flu virus that has caused 16 deaths in his country. Calderon ...

WINNIPEG -- RCMP were continuing to investigate Sunday after the driver of a van with American licence plates allegedly loaded with weapons ran a Canada-U.S. border crossing. RCMP were dispatched Friday afternoon to the Goodlands port of entry in ...

Pottsville, Pa. An all-white jury has acquitted two teenagers of all serious charges stemming from the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant last summer. Brandon Piekarsky, 17, was acquitted of third-degree murder and ethnic intimidation, and ...

POTTSVILLE, Pa. - Prosecutors called the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico a hate crime, and they urged an all-white jury in Pennsylvania coal country to punish two white teenagers for their roles in the attack. Instead, the jury found ...