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SANTA ANA, Calif. --A pilot program allowing illegal immigrants to surrender to authorities and have more control over their deportation has been dubbed a failure. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it is ending its 'Scheduled Departure' ...

DUSHANBE. Aug 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The United States has granted $19.9 million to Tajikistan to build up the security of its borders, primarily with Afghanistan, and law enforcement, judging by press releases of the U.S. embassy in Dushanbe. On August ...

I say hopefully, because for the first time coming back to the U.S. I had an incident at the border. Less than a year before, I had crossed back into the states at Fort Erie and was waved through in less than 30 seconds. This time was very, very ...

and how immigrants enrich U.S. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses and your future Olympians. America has always been an immigrant nation, and for all the angst over the current wave of illegal immigration, the Beijing ...

NEW YORK As the ferry from Manhattan sidles up to the dock at Ellis Island, the imposing arches and grand towers of the main building make it almost impossible for visitors not to feel like they are among the huddled masses who passed through here a ...

Editor?s Note: Nearly 40 years ago this month, First Lady Pat Nixon crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and embraced Mexican children, saying, ?I hate to see a fence anywhere.? Times have changed, writes the commentator, and ironically, President ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is calling on U.S. authorities to halt mass immigration raids and says agents who refuse to participate in such raids on moral grounds deserve to be treated as conscientious objectors. Providence ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offered the pilot program in five cities, giving illegal immigrants facing court orders to leave the country 90 days to plan their departure and coordinate travel with relatives instead of facing ...

SANTA ANA, Calif.The federal government will scrap a program for illegal immigrants to turn themselves in for deportation after only eight people volunteered during a nearly three-week trial, an official said Thursday.U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

NEW YORK As the ferry from Manhattan sidles up to the dock at Ellis Island, the imposing arches and grand towers of the main building make it almost impossible for visitors not to feel like they are among the huddled masses who passed through here a ...

NEW YORK As the ferry from Manhattan sidles up to the dock at Ellis Island, the imposing arches and grand towers of the main building make it almost impossible for visitors not to feel like they are among the huddled masses who passed through here a ...

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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island: Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is calling on U.S. authorities to halt mass immigration raids and says agents who refuse to participate in such raids on moral grounds deserve to be treated as conscientious objectors. ...

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: Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin asked for a blanket moratorium on immigration raids until the nation adopts comprehensive immigration reform. Tobin made the requests in a letter sent Tuesday to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Boston. The ...

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Tobin's action comes during a heated debate over illegal immigration in heavily Catholic Rhode Island. Authorities recently raided six courthouses looking for illegal immigrant maintenance workers and Gov. Don Carcieri, himself a Catholic, signed an ...

The Monitor (Kampala) Three rebels of the Liberation Army of Rwanda accused of killing gorilla tracking tourists in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in 1999 have applied for asylum in the United States. According to a report published in the Washington ...

WASHINGTON, AUGUST 20 : The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on US citizens crossing by land, compiling data that will be stored ...

The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all U.S. citizens crossing by land, compiling data that will be stored for 15 years and may ...