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(AP) An appeals court's decision Thursday against temporarily putting on hold Arizona's employer sanctions law clears the way for prosecutors to begin bringing cases against businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Interior ministers from Latvia and Slovakia indicated at a meeting held in Brussels on Thursday, Feb. 28, that their governments were ready to follow the example set by the Czech Republic and conclude separate visa agreements with the United States. ...

Editor's Note: Thirty men from Mexico who came to pick strawberries in Louisiana and found themselves in "slave-like" conditions ended up approaching some African-American activists for help. Gerald Lenoir is coordinator for Black Alliance for Just ...

RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said the question of whether he can run for president, despite being born in the Panama Canal Zone, was put to rest 44 years ago in Barry Goldwater's run for the White House. McCain ...

RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Thursday the question of whether he can run for president, despite being born in the Panama Canal Zone, was put to rest 44 years ago in Barry Goldwater's run for the White House. ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. immigration officials said on Thursday they had dismantled a Guatemalan human smuggling ring that brought more than 100 illegal immigrants a week into the Los Angeles area. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said 13 ...

Washington: Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech 'virtual fence' along the US-Mexico border and will delay the first phase for at least three years, Washington Post reported yesterday. There are an estimated 12 ...

Add your opinion Reprints Writing about the H-1B program's abuse brought a deluge of feedback agreeing with last week's column. It also brought a tiny amount of people claiming we need to expand the program. The three people who are for expanding the ...

RICHARDSON Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Thursday the question of whether he can run for president, despite being born in the Panama Canal Zone, was put to rest 44 years ago in Barry Goldwater's run for the White House. McCain added ...

PM Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech 'virtual fence' along the US-Mexico border and will delay the first phase for at least three years, the Washington Post reported. There are an estimated 12 million illegal ...

'The victim was surrendering, going down on his knees, was hit from behind ... and shot through the heart while surrendering,' special prosecutor Grant Woods told jurors during opening statements Wednesday. Woods said that forensic and medical evidence, ...

Top Ten Visa Wait Times at U.S. Consular Posts The significant reductions in visa wait times continued in February 2008. Visa wait times in Santo Domingo have now dropped 68 days this year. Port au Prince has reduced its wait times by 43 days during the ...

Peshawar, Pakistan - At least 12 people, most of them Arabs, were killed when a missile struck a house early on Thursday in a Pakistani tribal region known as a safe haven for al-Qaeda operatives, officials and residents said. Residents in the Azam ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles man with mental problems, who spent three months lost in Mexico after being deported despite being a U.S. citizen, sued homeland security and immigration officials on Wednesday. Los Angeles-born Peter Guzman, 30, was ...

PHOENIX (AP)--Homeland Security officials have told federal lawmakers that the 'virtual fence' along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona doesn't meet contract requirements for detecting border intrusions, and some of its technology will have to be replaced ...

The Bush administration's plan to outfit the U.S.-Mexico border with a 'virtual' fence consisting of sensors, cameras, and drone aircraft is running into technical snags. Federal officials told a congressional committee on Wednesday that the first phase ...

Plan to buy new, better Eye-o-Sauron 2.0 After revealing last week that a pilot installation of controversial, buggy border-security scanner towers had finally been accepted into service, the US government has now admitted that the project is a technical ...

WASHINGTON Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech virtual fence along the U.S.-Mexico border and will delay the first phase for at least three years, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. There are an estimated ...

Tijuana, Mexico, Feb 28 (EFE).- The body of an American minister was found inside an apartment in the border city of Tijuana, Mexican officials said. Charles Lanier, who was the pastor of Unity Fellowship Church in San Diego, died from 'a drug overdose,' ...

LOS ANGELES Although Sen. Barack Obama is riding on the wave of an 11-state victory, the Democratic nomination race is still neck and neck. Where do the presidential candidates of the Democratic Party stand on the issue of immigration? The IRC Americas ...