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President George W Bush has argued that new US regulations for nationals of US visa-waiver countries who want to visit the United States should make trips easier, and not more cumbersome. 'As to whether we have made it harder for visa-waiver countries ...

WASHINGTON (AFP)--President George W. Bush argued Sunday that new U.S. regulations for nationals of U.S. visa-waiver countries who want to visit the United States should make trips easier, and not more cumbersome. 'As to whether we have made it harder ...

The Honolulu Passport Agency has urged U.S. nationals and citizens hoping to travel abroad next year to apply for passports now.Nancy K. Finn, regional director of the Passport Agency, said the amount of time required to obtain a passport is expected to ...

NORWICH, Conn. - Juan Garcia goes to Kino Envios about every week to send money home to his wife and 14-month-old son in Mexico City. He transfers about $400 to his family. Because his wife stays home to take care of their son, that is nearly all money ...

IRAPUATO, MEXICO - Antonio Martinez used to pay smugglers thousands of dollars each year to sneak him into the U.S. to manage farm crews. Now, the work comes to him. Supervising lettuce pickers in central Mexico, Martinez earns just half of the $1,100 a ...

Yesenia Rangel, 12, looked out her window on a Friday morning in February and saw several officers with the letters 'ICE' on their sleeves. Yesenia immediately called her neighbors to warn them that immigration officers were outside their Compton ...

CANCUN, Mexico-Mexico's navy says it has detained 34 Cuban migrants who were in a yacht off Cancun's coast. Lt. Wilberth Vargas says navy personnel found 28 men, four women and two children Friday during a routine patrol near the Mexican resort. Vargas ...

The Los Angeles Times recently reported that the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is not only catching illegal immigrants as they try to enter the US, but also those illegals attempting to leave the US. CBP has set up checkpoints at various places ...

ST. LOUIS -- A group of Muslim immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship sued federal officials on Friday, claiming they've been left in limbo for months or years because of slow background checks. The class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 33 plaintiffs ...

Washington, June 7 : Western military officers and diplomats are of the opinion that relations between the US military and the Pakistan Army were now at their worst point since 9/11, 2001, because of Pakistan's insistence of deploying its troops along ...

ST. LOUIS - A group of Muslim immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship sued federal officials on Friday, claiming they've been left in limbo for months or years because of slow background checks. The class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 33 plaintiffs ...

USCM Policy on Comprehensive Immigration Reform   WHEREAS, our federal immigration system is broken and has become mismatched to the economic and social realities of cities; and WHEREAS, the existing system has created waiting lists for most ...

EASTSOUND, Wash. - Pedro Perez has not left Orcas Island in more than four months. Not for weekend trips with his family, not for cheaper groceries on the mainland, not for medical care - not for anything. He is afraid border agents will stop him and ...

Canada is about to prove itself good friends with movie studios and record companies, trying to pass the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) we?ve been hearing about for the past few months. The idea behind this proposed international agreement ...

Laredo Mayor Advocates Long-Term Solution to Immigration, Homeland Security Challenges on US-Mexico Border By Laredo (TX) Mayor Raul Salinas June 2, 2008 For years, my predecessors, Mayor Saul Ramirez and Mayor Betty Flores, have traveled to Washington ...

PLAINFIELD, N.J. - A group opposed to illegal immigration is using federal anti-corruption laws to sue a New Jersey property manager for allegedly renting apartments to undocumented immigrants. The Immigration Reform Law Institute is suing ...

Kelly NantelPress SecretaryOffice of Public AffairsU.S. Department of Homeland SecurityU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement As the ombudsman for The Post. I operate independently of the newsroom and management. I have looked at this complaint and ...

Preeta Bansal is the second lawyer I'm recognizing from the just released National Law Journal list of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America. The Indian-born Bansal heads the appellate litigation department at Skadden Arps, one of the ...

A trenchant editorial by New York Times prophesies that the largest toll of an unjust immigration policy is the undercutting of our national identity itself. 'Someday, the country will recognize the true cost of its war on illegal immigration. We don?t ...

MANILA ? The U.S. has rejected former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn ?JocJoc? Bolante?s request for political asylum, according to a press statement from Malacanang. Malacanang said it is not worried about the possible homecoming of Bolante ...