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Source: BI-ME and Reuters , Author: BI-ME staff Posted: 25-06-2008 Back Email Print RSS Feeds INTERNATIONAL. A consortium led by European aerospace group EADS is favourite to win a US$1 billion contract to build a border fence shielding Saudi Arabia ...

The 32-year-old star became a US citizen last year, allowing her to vote in her first presidential election this November. She admits she was at least partly motivated by the convenience of being able to travel the world with an American passport instead ...

WASHINGTON The unprecedented Labor Department inquiry centers on Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy a New York firm at the forefront of a political effort to ease hiring of skilled foreign workers. The Labor Department is auditing all pending ...

NEW YORK - The New York Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit against the Justice Department alleges that federal authorities may have violated the privacy of the immigrants under a previously undisclosed FBI program the document refers to as 'Operation ...

Larry Abramson, NPR Juan Medina of the Florida Department of Education meets with new laptop owner Ifrain Ramas, his brother and mother. Ifrain and 45 other students from Immokalee, Fla., have received their own laptops through the One Laptop Per Child ...

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0 What's this VANCOUVER (CBC) - The Mexican Consulate in Vancouver has launched an investigation after 80 people from Mexico were turned back at Vancouver International Airport Monday, even though they may have had the legal paperwork to allow them to ...

suitablegirl writes 'As we have discussed, Customs and Border Patrol is allowed to seize and download data from laptops or electronic devices of Americans returning from abroad. At a Senate hearing tomorrow, privacy advocates and industry groups will ...

LOS ANGELES - Nitin Dhopade, the chief financial officer for Micro Solutions Enterprises, was headed toward the accounting department on the afternoon of Feb. 7 to deliver checks he had just signed. Suddenly, he says, he encountered armed men and women ...

For the laws to be respected, they must be respectable. The cruelties and indignities visited by today's immigration law on immigrants are such that America's immigration laws are not now respected by anyone. Yes, there is that fanatical, nazi-like (and ...

McALLEN, Texas: A U.S. Supreme Court decision paving the way for a 670-mile (1,080- kilometer) federal fence along the U.S.-Mexico border has drawn swift criticism from environmentalists, who promised to make another legal stand in Texas. The justices' ...

The next administration will face an out-of-control immigration enforcement regime that consigns immigrants to a labyrinth of unregulated detention centers, jails, and prisons throughout the country. While the scope of the detention and imprisonment of ...

During presidential election years, it is common to pressure the Administration to speed up the process of naturalization so that a potential pool of new voters is available to help pick the next chief executive. In January, the National Immigrant ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A family of Ecuadorean immigrants has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the owners of a New Haven bakery shop where they worked of sexually and verbally abusing them for years. They also allege the owners refused to pay the minimum wage ...

Peruvian President Alan Garcia has said that the so-called Return Directive violates universal human rights and should be analyzed by the Organization of the American States (OAS). 'I read his statements and they are filled with dignity. Ecuador rejects ...

YUMA, Ariz., June 24 (Reuters) - Mexican migrant worker Fidel Castaneda hunkers down, brushes the sweat from his eyes and moves swiftly along the sun-blasted row cutting vines as the temperatures rises to 111 Fahrenheit (44 C). 'Watermelons are tough, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea by environmental groups to rein in the Bush administration's power to waive laws and regulations to speed construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border. Homeland Security Secretary ...

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The Bush administration's controversial fence along the Southwest border escaped a potentially devastating legal roadblock Monday as the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge by environmental groups and more than a dozen members of ...

The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea by environmental groups to rein in the Bush administration's power to waive laws and regulations to speed construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff ...