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(AP) - Half-year figures are expected to show the first sustained decline on record in remittances sent home by Mexicans working abroad, officials said. The downturn in U.S. housing construction and stepped-up immigration raids have made it tougher for ...

L-1 Identity Solutions has revealed that the prime contract award first announced in March 2008 by L-1 for the US Passport Card has a negotiated value of US$215 million over five years. L-1 also was awarded US$24.8 million over five years for the new US ...

MEXICO CITY-Half-year figures are expected to show the first sustained decline on record in remittances sent home by Mexicans working abroad, officials said. The downturn in U.S. housing construction and stepped-up immigration raids have made it tougher ...

FORT ERIE, Ont. - An American man wanted in the U.S. on desertion charges who had apparently been living for months in Canada has been arrested while trying to cross the border back into the U.S. American customs officials apprehended 23-year-old Tyrone ...

The Pentagon says just the presence of regular Pakistani army troops in the country's tribal areas, along the Afghanistan border, helps reduce the flow of militant fighters in the region, even though the United States would like the Pakistani troops to ...

For more than 60 years the Marine Corps has proudly told the story of Sgt. Michael Strank and the five other warriors who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.Turns out they were telling part of the story all wrong.A 73-year oversight was rectified Tuesday when ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ A group of Russian-born immigrants made $3 million helping 380 asylum-seekers file bogus applications over a four-year period, federal authorities charged Tuesday.David Lynn, 33, posed as an immigration lawyer and coached natives of ...

The Consular Section of the US Embassy in Kingston wishes to correct misleading and inaccurate reports circulating about the Department of State's worldwide online visa appointment system and other consular practices. In order to inform and better serve ...

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PHILADELPHIA: A group of Russia-born immigrants made $3 million helping 380 asylum-seekers file bogus applications over a four-year period, federal authorities charged Tuesday. David Lynn, who was born in Russia and came to the U.S. from Israel, posed as ...

FORT ERIE, Ont. - An American man wanted in the U.S. on desertion charges who had apparently been living for months in Canada has been arrested while trying to cross the border back into the U.S. American customs officials apprehended 23-year-old Tyrone ...

(AFP) - Russia wants to join with the European Union and the United States to combat illegal immigration and organised crime and is not looking to undermine NATO, Moscow's envoy to the alliance said Tuesday. Russia, through a new security pact proposed ...

) '[In a republic, according to Montesquieu in Spirit of the Laws, IV,ch.5,] 'virtue may be defined as the love of the laws and of our country. As such love requires a constant preference of public to private interest, it is the source of all private ...

By Khalid Hasan WASHINGTON: Senator Barack Obama said on Monday that the new government in Pakistan is still getting its "sea legs" but it is important that the US emphasise to Islamabad how seriously it takes the "base camps from where the movement ...

ISLAMABAD AND KABUL - U.S. forces struck a suspected al-Qaeda hideout inside Pakistan Monday, exposing growing tensions between the allies over Pakistan's inability to deal with militants in its tribal regions. The attack, believed to have killed a top ...

ISLAMABAD AND KABUL -- U.S. forces struck a suspected al-Qaeda hideout inside Pakistan yesterday, exposing growing tensions between the allies over Pakistan's inability to deal with militants in its tribal regions. The attack, believed to have killed a ...

Money like this normally arrives after a bank burns or a vault floods. It doesn't just show up at the visitor's entrance on a Tuesday morning. But Franz Felhaber's banking habits had stopped making sense to the government long ago. For years, authorities ...

It is up to North Carolinas public colleges to decide whether they should admit illegal immigrants as students, according to a letter sent last week to the North Carolina attorney general by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The letter says that ...

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Previous Issues Comment The Mills Of God Two events of note occurred today. In the first event, US v. Ramos (No. 06-51489, 5th Circuit, July 28, 2008), better known as the Ramos and Compean case, the 5th circuit put the kibosh on efforts by the ...