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PHOENIX (Reuters) - The United States began a pilot program on Tuesday that allows some illegal immigrants to come forward and schedule their own deportation, after criticism that stepped-up raids cause traumatic family splits. Immigration -- principally ...

When federal agents raided the offices of the Kaweah Indian Nation, Malcolm Webber told the arresting officer he had not committed fraud and was confused how he could be arrested on 'sovereign soil,' court documents show. Now, almost a year later, Webber ...

VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Two people are dead after a shootout between Mexican police and smugglers driving a truck packed with illegal immigrants. Police caught up with the truck near the town of Agua Dulce in southeast Mexico. The town's police chief says ...

PRINT A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report made public today underscores the important role federal agencies particularly the Department of Homeland Security, along with the Departments of Labor and the Interior must play in ...

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MEXICO CITY - Olga Arellano sobs as she recalls how her HIV-positive daughter spent two months succumbing to infections in a U.S. migrant detention centre, complaining that she didn't see a doctor or get the right medicine. Fellow inmates also begged for ...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Two decades ago, the Rubashkin family of Brooklyn opened up a kosher slaughterhouse amid the cornfields of Iowa not exactly a center of Jewish culture.The bearded, fedora-wearing strangers from Brooklyn quickly transformed Postville into ...

Just west of El Paso, near where Spanish conquistador Juan de Onate crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in 1598, construction crews have completed a steel fence authorities say is a new model for border security. The five-meter (18-foot) tall fence has a ...

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over immigration reform is how to deal with the estimated 12 to 15 million illegal aliens in the United States. Supporters of 'comprehensive' reform often falsely present the issue as a choice between ...

By Paul Kiernan, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Monday he expects either Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., or Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to pass an immigration reform law quickly, whoever wins the ...

Keen to avoid a US intervention or cut-off of funds, Pakistan's government has proposed 'immediate action' by revamping its military and intelligence set up in the restive border areas with Afghanistan to counter the growing threat from al Qaeda and ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Olga Arellano sobs as she recalls how her HIV-positive daughter spent two months succumbing to infections in a U.S. migrant detention center, complaining that she didn't see a doctor or get the right medicine.Fellow inmates also begged ...

Sweet sorghum Photo: icrisat.org SANTO DOMINGO. - The Agro-industrial Complex Fnix, an alternative energy project whose expected cost is US$340 million, will improve the economy of the border provinces Montecristi, Dajabn, Santiago Rodriguez and ...

It is now being reported by several outlets that the Department of Homeland Security has been granted the power to seize travelers 'device(s) capable of storing information in digital or analog form,' including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, ...

WASHINGTON ? U.S. officials said the Bush administration has approved the sale of the M1A1 Abrams MBT to the Iraq Army. They said the sale would significantly enhance the post-Saddam Hussein military and launch efforts to help Iraq defend against enemy ...

CHICAGO -- Immigrant children of all backgrounds get even less vigorous exercise than their U.S.-born counterparts, the largest study of its kind suggests. Plenty of earlier evidence shows that U.S. children are pretty inactive. The new study of nearly ...

Previous Issues Comment Double Jeopardy Washington Post reports 'Lawyers and activists said Ingleson is one of a rising number of legal immigrants with relatively old and minor criminal records to be snagged in the federal government's stepped-up ...

Equal parts graceful and eerie, massive brick and stone asylums once loomed over towns from Maine to California as the 19th century's ideal for the humane treatment of America's mentally ill. Ornate facades, turrets, sprawling grounds and sheer palatial ...

Voting records and campaign pronouncements are the coin of the realm for pundits trying to predict how a presidential contender will lead once he moves into the Oval Office. But presidential scholars say congressional votes and campaign promises are ...

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