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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's top immigration official resigned Monday in the wake of a massacre of 72 migrants that exposed how brutally drug cartels have come to control human smuggling routes in the country. Cecilia Romero stepped down as head of the ...

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Sept. 14--A Mexican journalist who was allegedly kidnapped and released by members of the Sinaloa drug cartel is now seeking political asylum in the United States. Alejandro Hernandez Pacheco, a cameraman for the Televisa network, and three other members ...

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U.S. Department of JusticeExecutive Office for Immigration ReviewOffice of the Director5107 Leesburg Pike, Suite 2600Falls Church, Virginia 22041 Sept. 9, 2010 Observing Immigration Court Hearings The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) ...

With the mid-term elections a scant six weeks away, immigration reform has largely fallen off the nation's radar screen, a casualty of the fear and apprehension that most congressional Democrats feel about a volatile, hot-button issue that could make or ...

Source: Cornell University Newswise Cornell University sociologists Max Pfeffer and Pilar Parra explain the unintended consequences of national immigration policies and how local communities are addressing immigration in their talk, Impacts of ...

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July 28: A U.S. Border Patrol vehicle drives along the fence separating the U.S. from Mexico, near Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. SAN ANTONIO -- U.S. Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico after coming under attack during a half-ton drug bust and ...

A Mexican TV cameraman abducted in July after reporting on problems at a prison will seek asylum in the United States this week because he fears criminals will kill him, his lawyer told CNN on Tuesday. Alejandro Hernandez Pacheco, a cameraman for the ...

"Our agents were being fired upon and they did respond," official says 1,000 pounds of marijuana were seized in the incident, she says Assaults against board agents have decreased in recent months, she says (CNN) -- U.S. Border Patrol agents fired ...

Gunfire was exchanged across the Mexican border over the weekend, when Border Patrol agents were shot at while seizing a drug shipment, the Customs and Border Protection agency said on Tuesday. The incident occurred on September 11 around 7:40 a.m. near ...

The raging debate over illegal immigration has grown on a steady diet of rhetoric and recrimination. However, beneath all the hyperbole is a long-standing and unresolved debate over what it means to be a citizen. It turns out that the most foundational ...

A federal program that deputizes local police officers to act as immigration agents has seen a sharp drop in interest from law enforcement agencies. Seventy-two agencies have signed up for the program since it began in 2002, training more than 1,100 ...

IXTEPEC, Mexico About 100 Central American migrants were accosted and robbed by police in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, a priest and immigrants rights activist said. After the Saturday night incident in the municipality of Chahuites, the ...

July 28: A U.S. Border Patrol vehicle drives along the fence separating the U.S. from Mexico, near Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. SAN ANTONIO -- U.S. Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico after coming under attack during a half-ton drug bust and ...

IT staffing firms that hire H-1B workers and make them available to customers are located in office parks and buildings around the United States. But the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), under pressure by Congress to improve enforcement ...

A Mexican television cameraman whose kidnappers tortured him and demanded customized national TV coverage plans to seek asylum in the United States arguing his government can no longer protect him and other journalists against gangsters who kidnap, kill ...

A Mexican television cameraman whose kidnappers tortured him and demanded customized national TV coverage plans to seek asylum in the United States arguing his government can no longer protect him and other journalists against gangsters who kidnap, kill ...

MIR ALI, Pakistan - Suspected U.S. missiles hit a house in a Pakistani tribal area early Monday, killing 10 alleged militants in the 10th airstrike in the region this month, intelligence officials said. The two officials said the missiles from an ...