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By LOU CHIBBARO JR, Washington Blade U.S. immigration officials have granted political asylum to a gay man from Cuba who said he would face anti-gay persecution and internment in an AIDS sanatorium because of his HIV-positive status if forced to return ...

In 2006, the Government Accountability Office conducted an undercover investigation that revealed alarming lapses in US border security and vulnerability to nuclear smuggling. The GOA purchased a small amount of radioactive material and one container ...

Even as the Obama administration looks for ways to reinstate cross-border trucking, thousands of Mexican trucking companies are suing the United States for reneging on the North American Free Trade Agreement. According to Reuters, about 4,500 trucking ...

events build momentum for moving forward on immigration reform this year. Washington, DC - This week, in an unprecedented display of grassroots coordination, energy, and unity, hundreds of grassroots advocates across the country are organizing a series ...

TORONTO - A new poll suggests only about one in five Canadians believe new rules requiring a passport to enter the United States will have a significant effect on border security. Some 44 per cent of those surveyed in The Canadian Press Harris-Decima ...

Chicago activists launched Monday a lobbying effort to pressure the Obama administration into taking up immigration reform before 2010. 'We're here because of one simple truism: If it's broken, fix it and fix it now,' Allie Kabba, vice president of the ...

WASHINGTON, June 1 (Xinhua) -- A new U.S. rule takes effect Monday which requires U.S. and Canadian citizens to present passports or other special travel documents when entering the United States at land borders, CNN reported. The new rule is being ...

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BLAINE, Wash. - New rules requiring passports or new high-tech documents to cross the United States? northern and southern borders took effect Monday, as some rue the tightening of security and others hail it as long overdue. The rules come nearly ...

President Barack Obamas proposed 2010 budget includes a $10 million allocation for a new Immigrant Integration Program in the Office of Citizenship at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, at the Department of Homeland Security. This fund ...

New federal rules took effect Monday requiring anyone entering the country by land or sea including U.S. citizens to show a passport or other approved document. Border officials reported no major delays, with agents using Day One as more of an exercise ...

BOSTONA coalition of immigrant advocacy groups in New England is joining a national effort to push federal immigration reform. Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition executive director Eva Millona (MILL'-oh-nah) said Monday that the ...

Go to this site: http://malaysia.usembassy.gov/consularwebsite/visa/visaindex.htm and click on NIV on left column and you will be forwarded to the VFS page (http://www.vfs-usa-my.com/) IN BRIEF: All information about getting a U.S. Visa, from general ...

Headed to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda or the Caribbean? Here's a tip: Take your passport to avoid a headache coming home. Beginning Monday, the slow squeeze of border security will tighten further when a rule takes effect requiring U.S. and Canadian ...

Some pundits argue that Sonia Sotomayors nomination to the Supreme Court should placate those fighting for immigration reform. But what those pundits dont get is that Latinos are not a single issue constituency and immigration reform is not just for the ...

Despite new travel regulations, it was business as usual at the Coutts-Sweetgrass border crossing. As of June 1st, Canadian and American travelers need a passport to cross the border in a vehicle. The U.S. government says it will also accept a NEXUS ...

ATLANTA -- The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's system of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens, a process that was a subject of a federal lawsuit in the weeks leading up to ...

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ST. STEPHEN, N.B. - Instead of just asking for ID, American border guards began requesting passports Monday from anyone entering the United States. After four years of false starts and some minor concessions to opponents, the Western Hemisphere Travel ...