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(DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- (Friday, May 1, 2009) Laredo, Texas -- Organizers of this year's Combined Federal Campaign hoped to collect $250,000 from the federal employees of seven southwest ...

The Los Angeles Times breaks down President Barack Obama's $27 billion request for border and transportation security in the proposed 2010 budget. The budget, an 8 percent increase over last year, signals the Obama administration's commitment to securing ...

At Wednesday?s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) asked for DHS secretary Janet Napolitano?s views on the H-1B visa program. (The exchange starts around the 56-minute ...

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) The drug violence on the Mexico border has been reduced as a result of the thousands of troops that President Felipe Calderon sent to Ciudad Juarez, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today. Turf wars ...

What's this WASHINGTON (AFP) - Drug-related violence in regions near Mexico's border with the United States has dipped in recent weeks thanks to Mexico's rollout of army troops, a top US official said Wednesday. 'We have seen a reduction in violence. I ...

'detergent boxes' search results 'Border Protection' search results 'U.S. Customs' search results Related Stories LAREDO, Texas, May 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection said agents in Laredo, Texas, seized $302,875 hidden in detergent boxes at ...

The Editor interviews Michael D. Patrick , Partner in the New York office of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP Editor: Your practice is almost totally focused on the corporate temporary immigrant laws, the H-1B status, and similar provisions. ...

What's this WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The drug violence on the Mexico border has been reduced as a result of the thousands of troops that President Felipe Calderon sent to Ciudad Juarez, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Wednesday. ...

Marcelo and Carola Surez-Orozco, who founded and codirected the Harvard Immigration Project, are now codirectors of Immigration Studies at New York University. Their most recent book, , won the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, awarded annually by Harvard ...

MADRID -- Spanish authorities say they have arrested 29 people suspected of forging credit cards to finance an elaborate scheme to smuggle Cubans into the U.S. from Mexico. A police statement released Wednesday says the organization hacked credit card ...

American businesses overwhelmed by patchwork of immigration laws WASHINGTON, D.C.?The U.S. Chamber of Commerce?s National Chamber Litigation Center (NCLC) presented argument today before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, asking the ...

Marcelo and Carola Surez-Orozco, who founded and codirected the Harvard Immigration Project, are now codirectors of Immigration Studies at New York University. Their most recent book, , won the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, awarded annually by Harvard ...

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President Obama is putting security concerns ahead of illegal immigration in his policy on the border with Mexico. After pledging to Mexican officials that he will stanch the flood of illegal guns from the U.S. to its neighbor, Obama has decided to ...

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Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles President Obama will ask Congress for $27 billion for border and transportation security in the next budget year, fulfilling a promise to the Mexican government to battle the southbound flow of illegal weapons ...

By Staff (SP) Toronto - Harper's government has launched a campaign to help prevent immigration fraud and cut the number of immigration scams being perpetrated. The government is conducting an online survey to uncover dishonest behaviour by immigration ...

Islamabad: The US is expected to mount 'intense pressure' on Pakistan to 'shift its strategic focus' from its eastern border with India by redeploying 'much of over 250,000 troops' to the frontier with Afghanistan to carry out counterinsurgency ...

TORONTO - Ontario residents can now apply for an enhanced driver's licence to use instead of a passport when crossing into the United States, Transportation Minister Jim Bradley announced Tuesday, even though the new documents won't be ready for weeks. ...

Singer/songwriter Yusuf Islam has been hit with more US immigration issues as he prepares for his first Los Angeles show in more than 30 years. A concert at New York's Highline Ballroom on Sunday night was postponed due to a visa issue, but a private ...