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After more than four months, officials at University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., have identified a man previously known only as 'Adobe' as Santos Vazquez Escalante of Chiquimula, Guatemala. Vazquez Escalante was severely brain injured when a truck ...

Police investigating suspicious activity at a home just south of the U.S.-Mexican border found a group of men digging a secret tunnel to the United States complete with lights, an elevator and air-conditioning. Acting on a reports of armed men outside, ...

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The federal government's handling of a massive immigration raid at a Mississippi manufacturing plant last week has led critics to suggest that the Bush administration is backpedaling from its aggressive use of criminal charges and fast-tracked trials ...

and native-born workers Published: 09/01/2008 Gideon Aronoff, the president and CEO of HIAS, rejects claims that immigration has hurt American workers. Sign-in to JTA Signing-in to JTA's website enables you to view our full-text articles and to add ...

Alishia Beckham is on the front lines defending the United States from foreign invaders armed with weapons that include a hand mirror and a flashlight. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agricultural specialist works aboard ships three football ...

McALLEN, Texas (AP) _ A ranch worker hired by a Texas lawmaker is a suspected illegal immigrant now wanted in the fatal beating of a young man, authorities said Monday. Froylen Casares, 24, is suspected of using a bat to beat another man to death on the ...

The U.S. Homeland Security Dept is calling for more Eurocopter AS350s for its Customs and Border Protection service. The vendor, American Eurocopter, expects the indefinite quantity/indefinite delivery contract to cover up to 50 more AS350B3s during its ...

CARROLLTON, Texas Martinez used a counterfeit social security on her application to Trinity Medical Center, but her relatives and supporters wonder whether the hospital overreacted by calling the police. During yet another year marked by several ...

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agricultural specialist works aboard ships three football fields long that are stacked with truck-sized cargo containers, searching them for bugs, plants or pathogens that could lay waste to native species. While ...

Peshawar, Sept.1 (ANI): The Bush administration has criticized the Pakistan military brass for declaring a cease-fire in the border areas near Afghanistan ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan. It accuses Islamabad of not pushing hard enough against ...

(Adds details and background) MEXICO CITY, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The amount of money sent home by Mexicans living abroad fell 6.93 percent in July from the same month in 2007, the biggest fall in more than a decade, the central bank said on Monday. ...

Israel told the United States on Sunday it was prepared to withdraw from the northern part of Ghajar on the Lebanese border, a change in its policy for the past year and a half of not wanting to discuss the issue. A government source in Jerusalem said ...

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LAUREL, Miss. - Fabiola Pena considered running away from her factory job when she realized that she was being targeted in a federal immigration raid. She was deterred when she noticed the helicopters hovering overhead. But helicopters were not what ...

Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., and other technology and engineering companies want to boost or eliminate the annual 85,000-worker cap on H-1Bs. McCain wants to get rid of the cap, echoing the tech industry's call for a market-based system to ...

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Since I'm being accused of partisan politics, I thought I would lay out the questions and issues surrounding John McCain's birth on a U.S. naval base in the Panama Canal Zone and the role that plays in his status as a 'natural born' citizen. My wasn't ...

A plan by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to collect personal information on every traveller coming into the country and keep that information in a database for 15 years could have huge privacy implications for US citizens, one privacy group says. ...