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Report Documents Real-Life Impact of Failed Policies, Anti-Immigrant Climate MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Low-income Latino immigrants in the South are routinely the targets of wage theft, racial profiling and other abuses driven ...

A breakthrough agreement by the nation's top labor groups could give traction to immigration reform later this year, one leading agricultural lobbyist said. An agreement on immigration reform principles between the AFL-CIO and the Change to Win ...

Partnership to Assist Border Agency in Filling 11,000 Positions WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Army Reserve and U.S. Customs and Border Protection formally agreed today to work collaboratively to enhance job opportunities for ...

Banorte, one of Mexico's leading banks, has begun to offer life insurance to immigrants working in the United States to protect their families back home. The insurance, being rolled out first in the state of Zacatecas, covers the death of immigrants ...

(WASHINGTON) ? Wading into the politically charged immigration debate, a group of colleges and universities is urging Congress to give illegal immigrants tuition aid and a path to citizenship in light of efforts in several states to block them. The ...

WASHINGTON: Amid protectionist measures in the US in the wake of the financial meltdown, the authorities here have received just 44,000 H-1B petitions against the Congressionally-mandated cap of 65,000 in three weeks. The demand for H-1B visas, which ...

OMAHA, Neb. - Residents of Fremont will get the chance to vote on a contentious proposal seeking to curb illegal immigration. A Dodge County district judge on Monday dismissed the city's claim that it can't legally enact a proposed ordinance that seeks ...

The president of the American Samoa Chamber of Commerce, David Robinson, says he was finger-printed and locked in a room by federal agents upon arrival at Honolulu International Airport two weeks ago. He says there was no explanation. Mr Robinson says he ...

Editor's Note: As immigrant rights advocates welcome the Obama administration's promise of comprehensive immigration reform, state and local authorities are stepping up efforts to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identify, arrest and ...

In the first arrest, two Canadian men from Quebec were arrested, and a Toronto-area man was charged in the second incident by OfficialWire NewsDesk WINDSOR, ONTARIO CANADA (OfficialWire) 04/21/09 Cocaine Powder Nearly 450 pounds of cocaine were seized ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that within the first five business days of April 2009, USCIS received almost half the petitions needed to meet the FY2010 cap of 60,000 and has received just short of the 20,000 needed to ...

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UNOFFICIAL websites charging Australian travellers to the US for mandatory security checks that should be free are still occupying top paid-for spots on Google despite the US Government complaining about the scam. Under new US legislation that came into ...

Luong Vu asks his daughter the same question each time she visits his Westminster hospital room: 'When are my sons coming?'Kimberly Vu sighs, as usual. 'We are still waiting,' she says to the 85-year-old family patriarch, who is fast losing his battle ...

Tags: Online, Big Tech, Politics, H-1B The H-1B visa program for skilled foreign workers depresses wages in the tech sector by about 6%, says a new report from NYU Stern and Penn's Wharton School of Business. Hardest hit: Recent college grads and people ...

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Civil liberties groups are renewing calls for the Obama administration to change screening at border posts by limiting questions about Americans' political beliefs and religious practices and establishing a process for U.S. citizens and residents who are ...

Hawaii employers are seeking out fewer foreign workers with the recession cooling demand for the once highly prized H-1B temporary work visa. With layoffs and cutbacks across all industries, the flood of work-visa applications last seen in 2006 has ...

The number of truck crossings into the United States from Canada and Mexico was 10.8 million in 2008, 6.0 percent fewer than in 2007, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a part of the Research and ...

Summary: A Media Matters analysis found that April 9 reports about immigration policy on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News frequently featured footage of people apparently crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The footage distorts the issue; it does not ...