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TECATE The Baja California Attorney Generals Office announced Friday the arrests of six suspected migrant kidnappers, accused of preying on two men who were hoping to make it to the United States. Authorities said the suspects, four men and two ...

A total of six policemen and one civilian died on Friday during a shooting in Ciudad Juarez on Mexico's border with Texas, the United States, local media reported. A police officer told the local media that a group of policemen were attacked in the ...

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed today what is now the most punitive and sweeping anti-immigrant state law in the nation. This laws full effects will not be measurable for months to come, but it is already clear that it will be challenged in court because ...

South Carolina's lieutenant governor said Friday that lazy residents who don't want to take jobs harvesting the state's crops are the root of its problems with illegal immigration. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer's remarks came at the opening of a debate of ...

Mexico on Friday criticized governor of the southern U.S. state of Arizona, Jan Brewer, for signing into law a controversial immigration bill.'The Mexican government regrets that despite efforts taken at all levels, legislators and executives in Arizona ...

U.S. President Barack Obama Friday urged Republican Senators to cooperate with Democrats to pass immigration reform in the Congress, noting failure to act on the federal level can open doors to 'irresponsibility' by others.'I would note that 11 current ...

ext Size la-na-obama-immigration-20100424 Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed the toughest law against illegal immigration in the country, shrugging aside warnings from religious and civil rights leaders and President Obama that it would lead to ...

Threats to lawmakers that followed the passage of sweeping healthcare reform legislation last month have resurfaced with the immigration debate, as a new threat made against an Arizona congressman closed down offices. A man Friday made death threats ...

ext Size la-na-obama-immigration-20100424 Reporting from Denver Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed the toughest law against illegal immigration in the nation, shrugging aside warnings from religious and civil rights leaders and President Obama ...

Key provisions of Arizona's immigration legislation, signed into law by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday: - Makes it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally by specifically requiring immigrants to have proof of their immigration status. ...

Standing in front of members of law enforcement Gov. Jan Brewer, the Republican Arizona governor, talks about signing immigration bill SB1070 into law Friday, April 23, 2010, in Phoenix. The sweeping measure would make it a crime under state law to be in ...

PHOENIX, April 24 Arizona Governor Jan Brewer yesterday signed into effect the toughest immigration law in the United States, which US President Barack Obama singled out as a misguided effort that showed the need for national reform. Police in ...

Lawmakers in Arizona approved a fun immigration bill that would oblige cops to stop anyone swarthy and ask them to prove their legality. Everyone, bar some right-wingers, thinks this is a bad idea. Including, as of today, the President. More ...

JEFFREY BROWN: Immigration law was in the spotlight today in Washington, where the president called national policy broken, and in Arizona, where the governor approved a tough new law aimed at illegal immigrants. In Phoenix, as protesters and supporters ...

NOGALES, Ariz. (Reuters) - In a warehouse in this Arizona border city, a U.S. Border Patrol trainer teaches a Mexican federal policeman to slip into a boxing stance and press a military assault rifle to his shoulder. Taking aim at a silhouette just a few ...

President orders scrutiny of civil rights implications as Latinos organise protest rallies in Phoenix over Jan Brewer's move The governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, defied Barack Obama yesterday to sign into law the toughest anti-immigration legislation in ...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into effect the toughest immigration law in the United States, which President Barack Obama singled out as a "misguided" effort that showed the need for national reform. Police in the ...

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law Friday a measure criminalizing undocumented immigrants and requiring police to verify the immigration status of anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. Brewer, a Republican seeking re-election, said ...

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into effect the toughest immigration law in the United States, which President Barack Obama singled out as a "misguided" effort that showed the need for national reform. Police in the border state with Mexico ...

NOGALES (Arizona), April 24 In a warehouse in this Arizona border city, a US Border Patrol trainer teaches a Mexican federal policeman to slip into a boxing stance and press a military assault rifle to his shoulder. Taking aim at a silhouette just a ...