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A former soldier who fled from the US army following homophobic persecution, has won the right to appeal for asylum in Canada. Bethany Smith, 21, says that she received death threats and was repeatedly assaulted after other soldiers discovered her ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) Twenty-three percent fewer illegal immigrants were arrested at US borders in fiscal year 2009, while drug seizures went up significantly, the US Customs and Border Protection agency said Tuesday in its annual report. Between October ...

Terrorism, Cheap Labor, Voting Blocks While the rising threat of terrorism, violence and honor killings produced by Muslim immigration tends to be in the news lately, the problems produced by immigration are not limited solely to Islam. The problem of ...

This editorial appears in the Nov. 24, 2009, Yakima Herald-Republic. Pushing ahead with comprehensive immigration reform next year is laudable given the crowded agenda that President Barack Obama and his administration has embraced. But we wonder if the ...

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Info-Tech - Human Resources Reflection of weak US economy, says Nasscom. Moumita Bakshi Chatterjee New Delhi, Nov. 24 Even as a new piece of legislation proposed in the Senate by two US lawmakers seeks stringent control on H-1B visa approvals, almost ...

A U.S. consular official said Monday that an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros. ...

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(El Paso Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A new ranking shows El Paso moved up to the second-safest large city in the nation even while a vicious drug cartel war has turned Juarez into one of the deadliest cities in the ...

House Democrats are making changes to their immigration legislation to reflect the nations high unemployment rate. The move comes as recognition that the 10.2 percent jobless rate which is expected to rise and remain in double-digits for much of ...

A federal judge in San Francisco said Monday that a law President Obama signed last month would probably change his mind about ordering refunds to hundreds of thousands of Central Americans who claim the United States overcharged them for the right to ...

Indo-American Arts Council's 6th Annual Erasing Borders Exhibition (sponsors) features work by 27 artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian subcontinent. Twenty million people of Indian origin shifted countries in the 20th and 21st centuries. ...

Abstract: H.R. 3692 would deliberately permit illegal aliens to participate in the government health insurance exchange and in the public option insurance program. It would nominally bar them from receiving health care 'affordability credits' and most ...

Proposed legislation aims to prohibit major firms that lay off American workers from replacing them with cheap foreign labor using temporary guest worker programs. ...

[12 min 12 sec] text sizeAAA Only three states Illinois, New Mexico and Washington allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. Other states have recently implemented practices aimed at banning immigrants who enter the U.S. ...

NEW DELHI: There seems stricter H-1B restrictions are in the offing for IT firms. According to a report, two senators Bernie Sanders and Charles Grassley, have introduced legislation that would bar any company that lays off 50 or more workers from hiring ...

By Henry CK Liu In this season of debate on regulatory reform, an obvious area that has been crying out for reform seems to have been overlooked by government officials and market participants. Much of past and current global financial crises lies in ...

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Chinese lawyers family gets asylum in US: supporters The US granted political asylum to the wife and children of jailed Chinese civil rights lawyer Guo Feixiong (), who the family says is suffering abuse, supporters said on Saturday. Guo, who ...

some within 60 days. Asylum claims for Tamils are stalled, The Australian said. 'The problem is the Australian government is using the Sri Lankan embassy for security checks and identity checks,' Pamela Curr of the Asylum Seeker Resource Center said. ...