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CARACAS, Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez is warning Colombia against any U.S. military base near its border with Venezuela, though neither Colombia nor the United States have publicly suggested such a plan. Chavez said in a televised speech Wednesday ...

NEW ORLEANS - Josue Vega was one of thousands of immigrant workers who flocked to New Orleans in 2005 in hopes of finding a rebuilding job in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He worked seven days a week and earned more than twice his normal earnings. But ...

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. ~ Jack Paar There are a number of watershed issues that help to define the meaning of liberty. How one responds to the practice of warfare is one such question. Individuals may disagree as to whether ...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Josue Vega was one of thousands of immigrant workers who flocked to New Orleans in 2005 in hopes of finding a rebuilding job in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He worked seven days a week and earned more than twice his normal earnings. ...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Chavez said he would not permit Colombia's U.S.-backed government to establish an American military base in La Guajira, a region spanning northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. The Venezuelan leader said if Colombia allows ...

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR: Senator Barack Obama accepting John Edwards' endorsement. As expected, a 20-minute speech given by Senator Edwards. And he wound up pretty ...

CARACAS, Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday warned Colombia not to allow a U.S. military base on its border with Venezuela, saying he would consider such an act an 'aggression.' Chavez said he would not permit Colombia's U.S.-backed government ...

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MEXICO CITY - With the U.S. Congress debating whether to send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for Mexico's crackdown on drug cartels, American officials said Wednesday that three Mexican police chiefs have sought asylum north of the border in fear ...

(Computerworld) Efforts to increase the H-1B cap have been stuck in a legislative swamp, but U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) has introduced three bills in the last few weeks to help foreign nationals already working in the U.S. to obtain permanent ...

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Editor's note: Here are the latest entries from Greg Siskind's blog. And the tightrope walk continues. Is McCain pro-immigration this week or the enforcer? Posted at 10:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) I'm not sure if this is supposed to ...

Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the United States as violence escalates in the Mexican drug wars and spills across the U.S. border, a top Homeland Security official told The Associated Press. In the past few months, the ...

WASHINGTON ?Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S. as violence escalates in the Mexican drug wars and spills across the U.S. border, a top Homeland Security official said. In the past few months, the police officials ...

Thousands of employers are scrambling this week to file H-1B visa petitions in hopes that the U.S. government will approve their applications to hire foreign tech workers in fiscal 2009. InformationWeek analyzed the list of companies that had their H-1B ...

Immigration Daily: the news source for legal professionals. Free! Join 17000+ readers Enter your email address here: U.S.C.I.S.'s new guidance on its modification of an earlier interpretation of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) is interesting, but ...

RIO DE JANEIRO 'We claim that the limit is 200 miles. Various countries agree and others don't,' Lima If the U.S. doesn't accept Brazil's claim for a 200-mile zone, 'we have a problem,' Lima Brazil's state-run oil firm, Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR), or ...

May 14 -- U.S. and Mexican federal and state agencies have signed an agreement to clean up 3.5 million scrap tires that have piled up along border states. California and Baja California, Mexico, signed the Tire Initiative Collaborative Effort to reduce ...

The debate over H-1B visas, which allow highly skilled guest workers temporarily into the United States, renews itself every spring as the government holds its annual lottery to award them. Perennially eclipsed by the number of applications, the visas ...