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WASHINGTON - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is getting involved in problems at the Canada-U.S. border. She met this week with Canadian politicians worried about trade and traffic tie-ups at the border. Conservative MP Rob Merrifield says Ms. Pelosi ...

WASHINGTON: Crime groups operating as "mobsters without borders" have gained significant footholds in global markets and provide logistic support to terrorists, the United States said on Wednesday. Launching a campaign against such international ...

NEWARK, N.J. - When he faces an immigration judge in two weeks, a popular Muslim cleric fighting deportation may have to counter claims that he confessed to being a member of a terrorist group. According to Israeli military authorities, Imam Mohammad ...

KABUL: A large number of insurgents are still infiltrating from Pakistan to Afghanistan, a top US military commander said on Thursday. ?When I look at the map ... my area of interest, the area that I?m concerned about is on the other side of the ...

The head of the Canadian Trucking Alliance said the U.S. has gone ?off track? with the layers of security it has imposed along the northern border. David Bradley, the president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance, visited Cleveland, OH, to speak at the ...

He said the guest worker program proposed by the federal government is nothing more than an amnesty program. 'We have to have protections for American citizens and taxpayers, and illegal immigrants do not pay their fair share of taxes,' he said. 'We need ...

Nearly half of all Canadians who travel across the border purchase U.S. dollars whenever they need them, regardless of the exchange rate, according to survey from Royal Bank of Canada. ?With the strong Canadian dollar, people are shopping south of the ...

HAZLETON, Pa. - In a year when veteran House Republicans are rushing for the exits rather than attempt re-election, Lou Barletta represents something of rarity: He's a Republican challenger who has a 24-year Democratic congressman worried. Key to the ...

(Reuters) - The United States is hiring more federal prosecutors to help crack down on gunrunning and the smuggling of drugs and illegal immigrants over the porous U.S.-Mexico border, officials said on Thursday. Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip said ...

INDIANAPOLIS: Hillary Rodham Clinton's Indiana strategy relies on the state's similarities with eastern neighbor Ohio, where fertile farmland and factory towns produced blue-collar workers who propelled her to victory there. To the west is Barack Obama's ...

MINNEAPOLIS A federal lawsuit from last year's immigration raid in Willmar was whittled down Wednesday when a judge dismissed counts against the U.S. government and other authorities. U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery cited jurisdictional reasons for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) chief David Bradley visited Ohio last week, where he stressed to members of the Canada-US Law Institute the importance of facilitating the smooth flow of goods across the border. Bradley warned that the ...

A high-level U.S. diplomat has met with tribal leaders from Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of the effort to end attacks from militants operating along the rugged border between the two countries. The meeting came as news reports from Islamabad say the ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Borders, Inc. will open its second stand-alone Paperchase shop in the U.S. May 2 at The Americana at Brand, a singular shopping, dining entertainment and luxury living destination, in Glendale, Calif. ...

The USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service) announced they had received over 163,000 H-1B petitions during the first seven days of April. The cap set was 65,000 H-1B petitions for 2009. In addition, 20,000 H-1B visas (advanced degree category) ...

LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) - Hundreds of illegal immigrants awaiting deportation rioted at a county-run detention center and had to be subdued with tear gas, authorities said Wednesday. Tuesday's riot started as a fight between detainees from rival gangs, ...

WASHINGTON - The Congressional Hispanic Caucus denounced House Democratic leaders Wednesday as 'spineless' and little better than Republicans for failing to take on comprehensive immigration reform. Leaders of the all-Democratic caucus, which numbers two ...

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Clinton Will Fight to the Finish; McCain Courts Democrats & Independents; Amnesty for Illegal Aliens; Border Boondoggle: Virtual Fence is Ineffective THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. LOU DOBBS, ...

With immigration on the back burner in Congress, state legislatures are pressing ahead with their own solutions, according to a report that provides an overview of the more than 1,100 immigration-related bills introduced this year in 44 states.Twenty-six ...