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As President Barack Obama considers deploying National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to control escalating violence, Arizona's governor has requested about 250 more National Guard troops on its border with Mexico, and the Texas governor is ...

The March 2 editorial 'A Wall Built With Visas,' on H-1B visas, was incorrect in stating: 'Even before the Grassley-Sanders proposal, companies had to make a case that a would-be foreign hire had . . . expertise that made him the best candidate for the ...

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Tags: Online, Startups, Microsoft, Big Tech, Politics, H-1B, India If the H-1B skilled worker program is controversial here in the USA, people in India have been apoplectic. Some right-wing Indian groups have gone as far as threatening a boycott US goods ...

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MUMBAI - The voice of the Indian Information Technology Companies, National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has expressed extreme concern over the proposed amendment of the US government to the H-1 B visa legislation stating ...

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A statewide coalition of immigration advocacy and civil rights groups Monday urged the Department of Homeland Security to refuse Morristown, NJ, final approval to deputize its police as immigration agents. In a letter sent to Homeland Security ...

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About those earmarks ..... '...Alaska will receive more money, per capita, from the bill's earmarks than any other state. (Alaska will pocket $209.71 for each state resident.)...' From MotherJones via HuffPost: Alaska's governor campaigned as an ...

MEXICO CITYMexico has extradited two former U.S. Border Patrol agents accused of taking bribes from migrant smugglers. The U.S. Embassy says Raul Villarreal and Fidel Villarreal allegedly fled to Mexico after they learned U.S. authorities were ...

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US President Barack Obama is considering deploying troops along the US-Mexico border to stop any spillover of the carnage from the drug wars in its southern neighbour. 'We're going to examine whether and if National Guard deployments would make sense, ...

MEXICO CITY Mexico has extradited two former U.S. Border Patrol agents accused of taking bribes from migrant smugglers. ...

Washington With drug-related violence along the Mexico border growing, the United States is willing to consider deploying troops to the Southwest -- but only as a last resort -- a Department of Homeland Security official told members of Congress on ...

'America's toughest sheriff,' Joe Arpaio, is under investigation by the Justice Department Civil rights leaders and immigration reform advocates met in Washington yesterday to applaud the announcement that Joe Arpaio, the publicity-seeking sheriff whose ...

Escalating violence on the U.S. - Mexico border has U.S. lawmakers demanding to know what U.S. government agencies are doing to stem the flow of illegal weapons from the United States to Mexico, and prevent narcotics from entering the United States. The ...

WASHINGTON: Though India has stressed on gains from a liberal H-1B visa regime, New Delhi has said that granting of such visas was the sovereign right of the US. 'This (H-1B) is not an issue that India and the US negotiate or discuss. This is not part of ...

What's this WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama is considering deploying troops along the US-Mexico border to stop any spillover of the carnage from the drug wars in its southern neighbor, US newspapers said Thursday. 'We're going to examine ...