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TRENTON, 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 Plainfield-based ...

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 ...

U.S. rejects Bolante?s asylum bid Print | Email to friend Total Views: 194 | Rating: MANILA ? The U.S. has rejected former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn ?JocJoc? Bolante?s request for political asylum, according to a press statement from ...

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 ...

Baghdad - Hundreds of people loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr protested the long-term Iraqi-US security pact on Friday, while Iranian forces shelled two border villages it claimed harboured a militant Kurdish nationalist group based in ...

The effort in Congress to make it easier for tech companies to hire foreign nationals gained support Thursday from two U.S. senators who are pushing a bill to give foreign nationals who earn advanced degrees in the U.S. permanent residency. The latest ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas Texas native Monica Castro accuses the U.S. Border Patrol of refusing to release her daughter to her when the girl's father was arrested in December 2003. Despite proving the child was born in the U.S., Castro says officials took ...

Gujrat (Pakistan), June 6 : US troops are not violating the sanctity of Pakistani borders while using pilotless drones to hit Al-Qaeda hideouts in the country's tribal areas, Pakistan Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar has said. Apparently justifying the ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas Texas native Monica Castro accuses the U.S. Border Patrol of refusing to release her daughter to her when the girl's father was arrested in December 2003. Despite proving the child was born in the U.S., Castro says officials took ...

? Media Center Video Immigration News In a post on its public policy blog, on 5 June 2008, Google voiced its desire to see the U.S. government raise the 'artificially low' H-1B visa cap. The Internet search giant submitted 300 H-1B visa ...

Ottawa, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina) The Canadian Parliament's House of Commons approved an initiative Wednesday, that if ratified, would give asylum to US defectors from joining the Army for the occupation and war in Iraq in Canada. The approval of the project ...

The top U.S. immigration enforcement official told a congressional subcommittee yesterday that the Bush administration will disclose more information about foreigners who die in the sprawling network of federal detention centers around the country. Julie ...

OTTAWA (AP) - Parliament's lower house passed a nonbinding motion Tuesday allowing U.S. military deserters to stay in Canada, but the Conservative government was expected to ignore the vote. The opposition parties banded together to bypass ...

Arthur Mkoyan, 17, and his family are set for deportation 10 days after graduation The family says they left Armenia in 1992 fearing for their lives Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the family has no legal basis to stay (CNN) -- A high school ...

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Editor's note: Here are the latest entries from Hammond Law Group's blog June 02, 2008 After the Memorial Day recess, Congress is back in session. For the third consecutive week, HLG and the CTIHS will be walking the halls of Congress trying to garner ...

Ryu report - Download (MP3) Residents and community leaders in western Ethiopia say thousands of people in several border regions have been displaced by Sudanese troops in recent weeks, following what they describe as a secret, illegal deal between the ...

Federal law enforcement agencies have increased criminal prosecutions of immigration violators to record levels, in part by filing minor charges against virtually every person caught illegally crossing some stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, according ...