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OMAHA, Neb. A Nebraska judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit challenging a state law that allows some illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition. The lawsuit filed in January on behalf of six Nebraska residents claimed their taxes were being used ...

The UK Border Agency will appeal against a tribunal ruling preventing the deportation of a failed asylum seeker who killed a 12-year-old girl in a hit-and-run driving incident, immigration minister Damian Green has said. Mr Green's announcement that the ...

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EST MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - More than 140 inmates escaped from a prison near the U.S. border on Friday, the latest breach of Mexico's notoriously insecure prisons that are helping to feed a brutal drug war. The 149 prisoners slowly filed out the ...

The US Congress has waived immigration restrictions for two Japanese citizens fighting to live in the United States, the first such to be approved in five years. The private immigration bills passed by the House on Wednesday they had already been ...

Fresh off of passing a law to combat illegal immigration that was so controversial the federal government sued to block it, Arizona's Republican-controlled Legislature is poised to push the limits of immigration policy yet again, this time by challenging ...

More than 140 Mexican prisoners have escaped from a jail near the US border, local media reports say. The prisoners - many of them believed to be serving sentences for drugs offences - broke out of the jail in Nuevo Laredo early on Friday morning. The ...

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - At least 159 inmates escaped from a Mexican prison near the US border Friday, deepening alarm in a region suffering extreme violence from rival drug gangs. "There were 159 inmates who apparently left through the main entrance," an ...

PESHAWAR: At least 24 people, including three commanders of banned Lashkar-e-Islam, were killed and several others injured in three separate US drone attacks in different areas of Khyber Agency on Pak Afghan border on Friday.Khyber agency is home to ...

Twelve leading companies from U.S. State of Arizona, which has adopted a controversial immigration law, teamed up with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in pushing for immigration reforms on Thursday. The New York City Mayor's office announced that ...

Prime Minister David Cameron has spoken of his "great anger" at a tribunal ruling preventing the deportation of a failed asylum-seeker who killed a 12-year-old girl in a hit-and-run driving incident. Mr Cameron said he hoped that the UK Border Agency ...

Pakistans progress in rooting out terrorists has not come fast enough, and so the United States will continue insisting it to deal with the terror havens within its borders, US President Barack Obama has said. We will continue to focus on ...

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An Army doctor who refused to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned President Obama's citizenship has been sentenced to six months in a military prison and dismissed from the service. A military jury spent nearly five hours deciding the sentence ...

Washington, Dec 17 (ANI): It is important for the United States to keep making progress in eliminating sanctuaries for extremists in Pakistan, and Pakistanis "can and must do more" to shut down the flow of insurgents across the Afghanistan border, top US ...

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent died this week in a gun battle with heavily armed suspects awaiting a drug load north of the Arizona-Mexico border. The FBI told television reporters that 40-year-old Brian A. Terry and three ...

Two men who allegedly walked across the border from Canada wearing backpacks stuffed with more than $658,000 Cdn are in custody in Washington, the U.S. Border Patrol said Thursday. The men, both citizens of Mexico, were carrying U.S. and Canadian ...

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Two American missile attacks killed 15 people Friday in a region in northwest Pakistan that has seen few such strikes in the past, Pakistani officials said, possibly signalling an expansion of the CIA-led covert war inside the ...

Washington, Dec 17 (ANI): Pakistan's progress in rooting out terrorists has "not come fast enough", and so the United States will continue insisting it to deal with the terror havens within its borders, US President Barack Obama has said. "We will ...