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Indian IT professionals working for Microsoft Corp in the US could be among those who lose jobs after it announced plans to sack 5,000 employees with the software giant indicating some of the affected would likely be non-Americans amid calls to first ...

(Jan. 23, 1:33 p.m.) U.S. Customs and Border Protection plan to establish standard inspection protocol for fresh produce crossing the entire northern border with Canada beginning Feb. 1, but growers-shippers in Canada don?t think it will affect their ...

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WASHINGTON: The White House is promising to reconsider a new rule requiring high-level approval before US immigration agents can arrest fugitives. The Bush administration quietly imposed the unusual directive days before the election of Barack Obama, ...

The Black Monday announcement of more than 71,000 jobs lost is a stunner. Today it was Texas Instruments and Sprint Nextel adding their names to the list of tech companies handing out pink slips. Tomorrow? Anybody's guess. In uncertain times, the only ...

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By Patrick Thibodeau 'These work visa programs were never intended to allow a company to retain foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American workers, when that company cuts jobs during an economic downturn ,' Grassley wrote in a letter ...

No legal obligation to keep U.S. workers over visa holders in layoff, says attorney Share Top Stories The Enterprise Search Zone With an estimated 40% of the world's information now residing behind a firewall, employee productivity is driven by the ...

WASHINGTON: Indian IT professionals working for Microsoft Corp in the US could be among those who lose jobs after it announced plans to sack 5,000 employees with the software giant indicating some of the affected would likely be non-Americans amid calls ...

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Korean foreign born All foreign born Male Female Male Female Persons age 16 and older employed in the civilian labor force 273,316 258,919 13,476,859 9,081,914 Total percent 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Management, business, finance 20.6 14.4 10.2 10.2 ...

The construction of the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2007 led to the find of a prehistoric village east of the San Pedro River. 'The San Pedro is a special place,' said archaeologist Maren Hopkins, the project director. Hopkins said the village ...

WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department is reversing itself, saying a new rule requiring high-level approval before federal agents nationwide could arrest fugitive immigrants was lifted weeks after the presidential election. It earlier said the ...

Microsoft's (MSFT) recent mass layoffs have lawmakers revisiting: How many H-1B (skilled immigrant) workers does America need? Barack Obama said last year (before the credit crisis and ensuing financial mess) that he supports expanding the H-1B program. ...

Sen. Charles Grassley wants to know if Microsoft will be retaining H-1B workers rather than similarly qualified American employees when the maker of Windows implements its 5,000-employee layoff plan. U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), a frequent critic ...

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If America ever is going to stop making aggressive war, Americans will first have to get into contact with reality Thats because U.S. administrations for the past century have periodically frightened the public out of their collective wits. And a ...

Fanta Konneh, who grew up in Guinea after her family fled Liberia when she was a toddler, first went to school at age 17. Fanta Konneh is the first girl in her family to go to school. Not the first to go to college, or to graduate from high school. ...

Thirteen days before the unlamented Bush administration ended on January 20, 2009, his Attorney General (AG) on January 7 issued an anti-alien ruling that has stirred a hornet?s nest among aliens, their advocates, AILA and ACLU. Why would the AG do ...