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PHOENIX - Arizona lawmakers expressing doubt over whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States are pushing a bill through the Legislature that would require the president to show his birth certificate to get on the state's 2012 ballot. ...

SAN JUAN. The U.S. authorities in Monito Island, located between Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, rescued 12 Cubans taken there illegally by Dominican smugglers, the United States Border Patrol announced today. It said a U.S. Department of the ...

PHOENIX Arizona lawmakers who still aren't convinced President Barack Obama was born in the United States are pushing a bill that would require the president to show his birth certificate to get on the state's 2012 ballot. Opponents say the bill, passed ...

An Arizona state bill that would give law enforcement greater authority over arresting illegal immigrants has caused national uproar and could set the stage for court battles over how far states can go when it comes to immigration policies. The bill ...

PHOENIX A bill the Arizona Legislature passed this week that would hand the state and local police broad powers to enforce immigration law has split police groups and sown confusion over how the law would be applied. While Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, ...

HONOLULU Hawaiian lawmakers are moving closer to passing a measure allowing the state to ignore repeated requests for President Barack Obama's birth certificate. A conference committee unanimously voted Tuesday to advance the bill, which is aimed at ...

Let us be clear. We support the idea of enhanced border enforcement, but we support it as one ingredient in the recipe of comprehensive immigration reform. Enforcement only doesnt work as a national strategy to control illegal immigration. In October ...

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Presidential candidate Barack Obama once spoke about his commitment to bring millions of illegal immigrants 'out of the shadows' by overhauling federal immigration law during the first year of his administration. But now, nearly a year and half after ...

made a series of phone calls to Republican senators on Tuesday in an effort to grease the wheels for a bipartisan bill on immigration reform. The time frame for consideration of that bill remains vague, however, as the administration dismissed reports ...

WASHINGTON: Democratic leaders in the US Congress may try to win passage of contentious immigration reform legislation this year in a move that could further harm prospects for a climate-change bill, congressional aides said on Wednesday. House of ...

WASHINGTON The doorbell rang early that morning in 2006, before the three oldest Romeike children had begun their schoolwork at the familys kitchen table in Bissingen, Germany. Uwe Romeike peeked through a window and saw two police officers. ...

Lawmakers in Washington say U.S. and Mexican authorities need much more help to battle violent drug traffickers. At a hearing this week, several members of a Senate committee blasted plans for a so-called "virtual fence" as a waste of taxpayer dollars. ...

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PHOENIX - Republican Sen. John McCain, who once championed a path to citizenship for the nation's roughly 12 million und immigrants, is now pushing for a crackdown on illegals amid the toughest re-election fight of his career. McCain's hardline stance on ...

Quicklink submitted by Sheila Samples (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) View Ratings | Rate It Secretary of State Clinton, in her Independence Day message to Israel, speaks only of Israel settling for ...

ext Size la-na-obama-immigration-20100422 Reporting from Washington When the Obama administration went before California's 9th Circuit Court last year seeking to deport a middle-class couple from Nevada, one judge criticized the government's case as ...