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LOS ANGELES - Nitin Dhopade, the chief financial officer for Micro Solutions Enterprises, was headed toward the accounting department on the afternoon of Feb. 7 to deliver checks he had just signed. Suddenly, he says, he encountered armed men and women ...

NEW YORK (June 24) - During a visit to Mexico in the wake of the massive Salmonella outbreak linked to raw tomatoes, Health & Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said he wants to open a food safety office in Latin America, according to the ...

Labor Department Targets Employers And Lawyers For Perceived Fraud Then Backtracks - Paparelli & Partners LLP - 24/06/2008, , United States: U.S. Labor Department Targets Employers And Lawyers For Perceived Fraud Then Backtracks Free Personalized ...

The Governor of the Northern Marianas, Benigno Fitial, is poised to sue the U.S. government over the Commonwealth?s new immigration law. Governor Fitial announced last night on television that he has hired a team of U.S.-based lawyers to review a draft ...

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NEW YORK - The U.S. government secretly gathered personal data on more than 130,000 immigrants in the run-up to the war in Iraq, according to a purported FBI document attached to a lawsuit filed Tuesday demanding more detail about how the information was ...

WASHINGTON - The nation's largest immigration law firm is under federal scrutiny over whether it helped major U.S. corporations disqualify American job applicants and give thousands of high-paying positions to immigrants. The unprecedented Labor ...

Source: BI-ME and Reuters , Author: BI-ME staff Posted: 25-06-2008 Back Email Print RSS Feeds INTERNATIONAL. A consortium led by European aerospace group EADS is favourite to win a US$1 billion contract to build a border fence shielding Saudi Arabia ...

The 32-year-old star became a US citizen last year, allowing her to vote in her first presidential election this November. She admits she was at least partly motivated by the convenience of being able to travel the world with an American passport instead ...

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The Bush administration's controversial fence along the Southwest border escaped a potentially devastating legal roadblock Monday as the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge by environmental groups and more than a dozen members of ...

The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea by environmental groups to rein in the Bush administration's power to waive laws and regulations to speed construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff ...

YUMA, Mexico - Mexican migrant worker Fidel Castaneda hunkers down, brushes the sweat from his eyes and moves swiftly along the sun-blasted row cutting vines as the temperatures rises to 44 C. 'Watermelons are tough, because of the heat,' he said. Behind ...

Why Mexicans assimilate at rates lower than newcomers from other parts of the world In the heart of California's iconic Orange County?home to Disneyland and the bourgeois teens of MTV's Laguna Beach?is troubled Santa Ana. The county seat of 353,000, ...

For the laws to be respected, they must be respectable. The cruelties and indignities visited by today's immigration law on immigrants are such that America's immigration laws are not now respected by anyone. Yes, there is that fanatical, nazi-like (and ...

McALLEN, Texas: A U.S. Supreme Court decision paving the way for a 670-mile (1,080- kilometer) federal fence along the U.S.-Mexico border has drawn swift criticism from environmentalists, who promised to make another legal stand in Texas. The justices' ...

The next administration will face an out-of-control immigration enforcement regime that consigns immigrants to a labyrinth of unregulated detention centers, jails, and prisons throughout the country. While the scope of the detention and imprisonment of ...

During presidential election years, it is common to pressure the Administration to speed up the process of naturalization so that a potential pool of new voters is available to help pick the next chief executive. In January, the National Immigrant ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A family of Ecuadorean immigrants has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the owners of a New Haven bakery shop where they worked of sexually and verbally abusing them for years. They also allege the owners refused to pay the minimum wage ...

Peruvian President Alan Garcia has said that the so-called Return Directive violates universal human rights and should be analyzed by the Organization of the American States (OAS). 'I read his statements and they are filled with dignity. Ecuador rejects ...