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On his very full plate, it was one issue that President Obama had yet to take on. Until today, that is, when he discussed immigration with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Obama supported comprehensive reform, including a possible path to citizenship ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) President Barack Obama will present plans for immigration reform this year, Hispanic lawmakers said Wednesday after strategic talks at the White House. Obama 'was clear and eloquent and determinate to let us know that we are all ...

The Obama administration is preparing to send federal agents to the south-west border as reinforcements in the fight against Mexican drug cartels, even as officials consider taking money from one immigration enforcement programme and using it to fight ...

MIAMI - US immigration authorities routinely delay, deny, or botch medical care for immigrants in detention, according to separate reports by two advocacy groups released yesterday. Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center said ...

Mariela Rosario: The violence in Mexico is out of control and undeniably headed north. From beheadings to kidnappings, there seems to be no limit to what the cartels are willing to do to assert their dominance. They deal not only in drugs, but also in ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. administration plans to send reinforcements to the southwestern border to help contain the rampant violence of the Mexican drug cartel wars. Thirty-seven agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are being deployed to ...

conomist print edition AT HIS old job, Christian Garcia made root beer at a restaurant for $9 an hour. He thought the pay was too low; in any other city he would have expected $13. But he lives in McAllen, a border city in Texas with no shortage of ...

Senate subcommittee, caucus focus on ways to help Mexican leader's battle Mexican drug violence, fueled by U.S. guns, cash, is creeping north, senator says Most guns seized in raids traced to U.S.; 2,000 cross into Mexico daily, he says Authorities ...

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Since the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Serves (USCIS) Acting Deputy Director Michael Aytes attacked my credibility and my article, Crime and Corruption at the USCIS last January, he has not responded to my request for an interview. See story here. ...

California lawmakers and the Obama administration have begun to shift U.S. border policy with Mexico, abruptly changing focus from illegal immigration to the flow of cash and weapons from the United States that is fueling a savage war between the ...

Following on a lead from an informant, police stumbled on the remains of nine bodies partially exhumed in the desert just outside of Cuidad Juarez, a city nestled near the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday. With the discovery, authorities also notified the ...

Mexico plans to slap tariffs on about ninety US export products in response to the US government's decision to block the cross-border trucking pilot program. Sharon Gill reports ... While Mexico considers the decision to be nothing more than misguided ...

U.S. immigration authorities routinely delay, deny or botch medical care for detained immigrants in poorly equipped facilities nationwide, according to separate reports released by two advocacy groups Tuesday. Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigrant ...

PHNOM PENH, March 18 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. has affirmed that it will not interfere in the Cambodia-Thailand border dispute, said official news agency the Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) on Wednesday. 'The U.S. has never intervened in the border issues ...

US must not curb H-1B visas: Sunil Mittal Video: Paresh Gandhi Sunil Mittal, Bharti Airtel chairman, said that the United States needs to stimulate its economy further so as to tide over the economic crisis. He said that the upcoming G-20 Summit should ...

Efforts by Mexico and the United States to stem the skyrocketing cross-border drug and weapons trade are failing, and both countries are to blame for the rise of violent cartels responsible for more than 6,000 related deaths south of the border last ...

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-year-old man, who apparently migrated from Cuba, yesterday shot four family members to death before turning the gun on himself in what is the city of Miami's second murder-suicide in weeks. The man, who the Miami Herald claims is Guillermo Lopez, ...

BROWNSVILLE A Customs and Border Protection officer discovered a woman hidden inside the speaker box of her husbands SUV in an apparent immigrant smuggling attempt. The CBP said Christopher Sean Protho, 36, of Fort Worth, was taken into custody along ...