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(EL PASO, Texas) - Dozens of Mexicans - including police officers, businessmen, at least one prosecutor and a journalist - are asking for political asylum in the U.S. in a desperate and probably hopeless bid to escape an unprecedented wave of ...

In a victory for US war resisters, Canada?s federal court ruled Friday that the Immigration and Refugee Board should reconsider the asylum claim of conscientious objector and Iraq war veteran Joshua Key. The court ruled that Key had been forced to ...

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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, reported a 44 percent increase in deportations last year. A senior ICE agent says he expects deportations to continue to rise in line with the US government's tougher stance on illegal ...

The Obama campaign is disputing some claims made by Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) during his morning press briefing on behalf of the McCain campaign, including his statement that McCain 'stood tall' on his comprehensive immigration stance during the ...

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U.S., Afghan Forces Focus on Pakistani Border Kabul, Afghanistan, July 10, 2008 - The U.S. military's senior officer and the commander of international forces in Afghanistan met with reporters here today to discuss the situation and threats coalition and ...

Ted Lewis This week John McCain is visiting Mexico and Colombia to burnish his foreign policy credentials by meeting with top Bush administration allies, Presidents lvaro Uribe of Colombia and Felipe Caldern of Mexico. He is extolling free trade ...

WASHINGTON -- In a new ad targeted at the battleground states of the West, John McCain is presenting himself as a champion of Latino immigrants while disrupting the delicate balance -- defending of the contributions of illegal Latino immigrants to ...

Under U.S. law, fear of crime is not, in itself, grounds for political asylum. But the sharp spike in asylum applications from the areas wracked by drug-cartel violence and the willingness of asylum-seekers to sit behind bars in the U.S. for months ...

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(CEP News) Ottawa - The ratification of a new Canada-U.S tax treaty got a little bit closer Thursday as the Canadian Department of Finance issued a statement saying it agrees with a technical explanation of the treaty by the U.S. Treasury department. The ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium: The European Union is expected to hold high level talks this year with Latin American nations annoyed by new EU immigration rules, officials said Friday. 'We hope we can have find an understanding for each other's concerns on the ...

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As the price of oil reverses course again and closes in on the unheard of price of $150 per barrel, Americans are finally responding to the pressure and have cut back on gasoline consumption. According to a report this week, Americans used 3.3% less ...

WASHINGTON: The number of Indians adopting US citizenship has decreased though they are the second biggest ethnic group to acquire the green cards. According to the Annual Flow Report issued by Department of Homeland Security, the total number of people ...

TIJUANA, Mexico, July 10 (Reuters) - U.S. and Mexican entrepreneurs with an eye for a quick buck are buying subsidized fuel in bulk in Mexico and hauling it across the U.S. border to make big profits, officials say. With a yawning gap between the cost of ...

The number of Indians adopting US citizenship has decreased though they are the second biggest ethnic group to acquire the green cards.According to the Annual Flow Report issued by Department of Homeland Security, the total number of people becoming ...

The number of Mexicans who became U.S. citizens in 2007 increased 50% over the previous year -- with California and Texas seeing the largest increases -- even as the overall number of immigrants becoming naturalized citizens declined. The jump was ...