Immigration News from around the Web

by George Bao LOS ANGELES, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Immigrant rights groups gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for a unity immigration conference to press the Obama administration for a comprehensive immigration reform. They urged the government to ...

Federal Reserve Banks and Equens team on cross-border payments processing The Federal Reserve Banks and Equens have agreed a deal that will see them offer processing services to banks for payments between the US and Europe from early next year. Recent ...

Carlos Cedano Filippini, the lead agent of the Mexican Federal Agency of Investigation (AFI), the Mexican equivalent of the FBI, and Victor Manuel Juarez Cruz, an officer of the AFI, were the two deportees. Cedano and Juarez were arrested by the U.S. ...

Protectionism may help politicians win votes at home, but it tends to make bad economic situations even worse. At this month's G-20 summit in London, President Obama pushed for punishments on countries that try to close their borders, saying that the ...

U.S. Coast Guard MIAMI - The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Chandeleur repatriated 54 Cuban migrants interdicted during five separate interdictions at sea within the past eight days to Bahia de Cabaas, Cuba. An HU-25 Falcon jet crew from Coast Guard ...

The Obama administrations immigration plan should include initiatives to help create more opportunities in migrants' home countries. The news that President Obama plans to put immigration back into the political debate is very welcome. The economic ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Wheres Sanjay? Google employees at the Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. Half of the engineers working in Silicon Valley were born overseas. More Photos Readers are invited to join a conversation with experts about the ...

When Lieutenant Salvador Hernandez heard his name was on a death list posted by drug gangs in the violence-gripped Mexican border city of Juarez, he knew it was time to skip town. He had narrowly survived a previous 'hit', injured by three bullets from ...

Washington: President Obama is poised to start pushing for landmark changes in immigration policy as early as next month, according to senior administration officials. The move is certain to spark outrage. But immigrant rights groups see it as a bold ...

Washington President Obama?s plan to start work on immigration reform ? reaffirmed by White House staff this week ? launched two sharply different views on how it will impact his domestic agenda. Supporters applaud Mr. Obamas holistic approach, ...

Q: Our 20-year-old son has met his first love and she lives in Maine. He is seriously considering moving there in September. We've told him it's not quite so easy as packing a suitcase and just moving there. He says he plans to reside and work there ...

The President is under pressure from a narrow constituency of his party to push a big amnesty initiative this year. The administration is sending conflicting signals for a good reason. In the absence of any evidence the Obama Administration is serious ...

While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Barack Obama plans to begin addressing the U.S. immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior ...

The office staff of the Moldovian newspaper ?Jurnal de Chisinau? and the online news channel jurnaltv.md have requested political asylum in the U.S., according to Interfax. The journalists, whose political beliefs have sided with the political ...

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Regarding 'U.S. Visa Limits Hit Indian Workers ' [news story, April 6]: I am a naturalized U.S. citizen from India. My family came to this country in 1982, legally sponsored and with green cards. We had to wait almost three years to get the visas to come ...

'If it had taken 30 days to figure it out, I wouldn't be upset. But seven months?' he told the Times. ICE says it does not detain citizens and that claims of citizenship are thoroughly investigated before anyone in custody is processed for deportation. ...

Sgt. Alcivar, 25, was sworn in as citizen 20 years after coming to the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano administered Oath for first time Alcivar says he joined military to serve, not just for citizenship Congress has eased the path to ...

:namespace prefix = o /> President Barack Obama will begin to tackle immigration reform in May, but some of his political opponents say he shouldn't be focusing on immigration until the economic crisis is stabilized, a report in The New York Times ...

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