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New York: A lottery is expected to grant the available 65,000 H-1B visas in the US as demand far outstrips supply, but a majority of them will again be cornered by Indian high-tech professionals, say immigration attorneys as they rush to file ...

WASHINGTON: Two senior Senators in the forefront of a bid to curb the H-1B visa programme have sent a missive to nine Indian tech giants, including Infosys, Wipro, Satyam and Tata Consultancy Services, seeking details of their use of this coveted work ...

The Bush administration is pushing ahead with what critics say is a final act of environmental vandalism in casting aside more than 30 laws and regulations to complete a 670-mile stretch of fence along the US-Mexico border by the end of this year. The ...

MEXICO CITY: In a March 31 story about migrants' remittances to Mexico, The Associated Press erroneously reported the amounts as millions of dollars. The correct remittances totaled US$3.4 billion (2.15 billion) in the first two months of 2008, ...

At the border near Naco, Arizona, there are as many kinds of fences as there are ways over them. Page 1 of 2 This feature requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player and javascript-enabled browser. Reporter Dan Wood discusses the piecemeal nature ...

At the border near Naco, Arizona, there are as many kinds of fences as there are ways over them. By | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the April 3, 2008 edition Page 1 ofNaco, Arizona - A jagged patchwork of metal mesh, corrugated ...

Reasonable people can disagree about the best solution to illegal immigration. But everyone can agree that, whatever the solution, it should not compromise the right of ordinary Americans to work. Yet that's precisely what a bill sponsored by U.S. Reps. ...

WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department used its legal authority Tuesday to waive environmental and land management laws so it can complete 670 miles of fence along the U.S.-Mexican border. The waivers will allow the department to move ahead with ...

Mexican Congress passes law prohibiting further colonization from the United States and any importation of blacks into Mexican territory in an effort to halt Anglo migration into Texas. Comments Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Remember Me? ...

The great majority of immigrants to this country are young, of working age. But in recent years more and more elderly immigrants - in their 60s and 70s and older - have been arriving, more than 100,000 a year. And for many, life here hasn't turned out ...

Fox News, Staff WASHINGTON - The Bush administration plans to use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an effort to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of this year, federal officials ...

But Joshua Key, 29, a father of four, faces an uphill struggle before Federal Court in light of similar decisions that have gone against dozens of other American war dodgers who have claimed asylum in this country. In denying his refugee claim, the ...

Though the United States added nearly 100,000 technology jobs in 2007 and saw increases in software and engineering services, electronics manufacturing took a hit and ended the year down 2.3 percent, according to a Wednesday study from technology trade ...

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CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. - As in politics, timing is everything in tomatoes. Finding and keeping the field hands who can pick 10,000 tomatoes a day during the hot months of August and September is no less a test of organizational traction than any ...

Listen to Kerry Howley's commentary at Marketplace about a new controversial anti-immigrant commercial produced by Republican Senate candidate Buddy Witherspoon. ...

The H-1B application process starts today and it will end today. Last year, by April 2, the numbers of applications received were nearly double the available H-1B visas and the ?lucky? 65,000 applications were to be chosen using a random selection ...

BLANDING, UTAH - The foreigner is buried in a small-town cemetery, against a barbed-wire fence in an unmarked plot set aside for poor people. He might be Mexican. He might be Guatemalan. But he's simply called No. 8, a man with no name because his ...

WASHINGTON - In an aggressive move to finish building 670 miles of border fence by the end of 2008, the Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday that it would waive federal environmental laws to meet that goal. The two waivers, allowing the ...

WASHINGTON Invoking the two legal waivers, which Congress authorized, will cut through bureaucratic red tape and sidestep environmental laws that currently impede the Homeland Security Department from building 267 miles of fencing in California, Arizona, ...