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New Delhi, Feb 17 (PTI) With the economic recession in the United States resulting in joblessness for H1-B Indian workers, a number of parliamentarians have written to External Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee seeking his intervention. According to ...

Huge quantities of Colombian cocaine are sent to the US via Mexico Hundreds of people in Mexico have blocked key crossings into the US in protests against the deployment of the army fighting drug traffickers. Traffic was brought to a halt on a number of ...

It was an inspiring moment. Despite pouring Pacific rains and high wind warnings, I joined an enthusiastic group of more than 500 on the ferry at San Francisco?s Pier 41 on Sunday morning to witness history. We were headed for the grand re-opening of ...

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Hundreds of people blocked bridges to the United States in three border cities Tuesday, demanding the army leave in another challenge for the Mexican government as it struggles to quell escalating drug violence. The protests in Ciudad Juarez blocked ...

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What's this MIAMI (AFP) - The United States is set to deport more than 3, Haitians to their impoverished homeland, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said Tuesday. Deportation orders have been processed for 3,299 Haitians and they are ...

The rehabilitation process in New Orleans, and the active participation of the Mexicans in this endeavor, has raised the eyebrows of native born Americans. We worry that they will snatch our land... that they will own our property and will be a burden on ...

Marianne White , Canwest News Service QUEBEC - Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff will raise the fate of Omar Khadr - the only Canadian imprisoned in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay - when he meets Thursday with U.S. President Barack Obama. The ...

NEW YORK - The United States Army is to accept immigrants with temporary US visas, for the first time since the Vietnam war, giving them a short cut to citizenship, The New York Times reported Sunday. Until now immigrants have had to have permanent ...

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said the first unmanned U.S. surveillance flights were to start along the sparsely populated 250-mile Manitoba border after a ceremonial launch Monday. The $10 million Predator B drone, based at a military facility in ...

The walls in Immigration Court are painted a friendly shade of blue. The judges there are often exceedingly polite -- even though the laws they enforce can be cruel and unyielding. Many languages are spoken in its courtrooms, including Ibo, Spanish, ...

By Patrick Thibodeau Federal authorities allege that in some cases H-1B workers were paid the prevailing wages of low-cost regions and not necessarily the higher salaries paid in the location where they worked. By doing this, the companies were ' and ...

OTTAWA -- The Canadian government is repatriating a database of personal information about British Columbia citizens after warnings the U.S. government might misuse it. The information on several hundred Canadians was provided to U.S. Customs and Border ...

WASHINGTON: Economic experts have slammed a provision in the $787 bailout package that US President Barack Obama signs into law on Tuesday barring banks and other financial institutions receiving government funds from hiring foreign workers. But analysts ...

Washington: Economic experts have slammed a provision in the $787 bailout package that President Barack Obama signs into law Tuesday barring banks and other financial institutions receiving government funds from hiring foreign workers. But analysts also ...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP)--Fifteen people have been killed since late Sunday in drug violence in Mexico near its border with the United States, local officials said Monday. Three women and four boys younger than 17 years old were among the victims. A ...

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Looks like Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitanos -- and Obamas -- version of hope and change on immigration means pressing down on the undocumented with even more boots and guns, according to . Given the and given the , such a militaristic approach ...

Stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American military will begin recruiting skilled immigrants who are living in the United States with temporary visas, offering them the chance to become U.S. citizens in as little as six months. Immigrants who ...