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PHOENIX U.S. District Judge Neil Wake dismissed a lawsuit filed by business groups that argued that federal immigration law severely restricts Arizona's ability to punish people who knowingly employ illegal immigrants. The law won approval last year from ...

PHOENIX - A federal judge on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that prohibits businesses from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and yanks the businesses licenses of those that do. U.S. District Judge Neil Wake's ruling was a defeat to employers who argued ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the eve of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's first official visit to the United States, Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, called on the Mexican president to support human rights ...

The U.S. military command in Afghanistan had little to say about the Thursday announcement that the Pakistani government reached a cease-fire with militant groups and Taliban fighters along the Afghan border. Officials at the Combined Joint Task Force-82 ...

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ProLogis said Thursday most of its new development this year will take place outside of the United States, allowing the real estate investment trust to take advantage of growth opportunities and possibly mitigate the effect of a domestic economic ...

Lou Barletta, the mayor of Hazleton, announced he will seek the Republican nomination to challenge 12-term Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski. He lost to Kanjorski by more than 13 percentage points in 2002, but the mayor's illegal-immigration stance has ...

Editor's note: Here are the latest entries from Greg Siskind's blog. I happened to be watching the PBS television show Wired Science this evening (a production of Wired Magazine) and saw a really interesting interview with Luis Von Ahn, a young professor ...

Basis of Visa Treaty Investor Intracompany Transfer Requirements The investor, either a real or corporate person, must be a national of a treaty country and all applicants for the E-2 visa must be the same nationality as the investor. The investor has ...

The slowing U.S. economy and rising unemployment are affecting a wide range of businesses across the country, including those owned by immigrants. Small immigrant businesses in Prince William County, Virginia, outside Washington, are among those hard-hit ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - After learning that DNA tests have shown no signs of contact between a homeless immigrant and a police officer accused of killing him, a defense lawyer is demanding more tests in hopes they will implicate someone else. Prosecutors ...

This spring, when employers flood the U.S. government with petitions to hire H-1B visa workers, those companies likely will have a new convenience -- electronic notification from the Dept. of Homeland Security about whether those applications have been ...

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PizzaFace writes 'U.S. Customs agents have long had broad authority to examine the things a person tries to bring into the country, to prevent the importation of contraband. The agents can conduct their searches without a warrant or probable cause to ...

MEXICO CITY - President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that a shifting political climate in the United States could improve the chances that a new administration in Washington would help bring a comprehensive reform law that would legalize the status of ...

Nabila Mango, a therapist and a U.S. citizen who has lived in the country since 1965, had just flown in from Jordan last December when, she said, she was detained at customs and her cellphone was taken from her purse. Her daughter, waiting outside , ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - A Michigan company is moving forward with efforts to establish a new border crossing between the United States and Canada to handle truck traffic in one of the border's busiest trade corridors. The owners of the Ambassador Bridge in ...

MIAMI - The Coast Guard Cutter Pea Island repatriated 58 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabanas, Cuba, Wednesday, the migrants were interdicted during two separate incidents since Saturday. A C-130 Hercules fixed-wing aircraft, from Coast Guard Air Station ...

This spring, when employers flood the U.S. government with petitions to hire H-1B visa workers, those companies likely will have a new convenience -- electronic notification from the Dept. of Homeland Security about whether those applications have been ...

(Updated Feb. 6, 2008) Czechs could start traveling to the United States without being required to get visas as early as October, Hospodrsk Noviny reports, citing unnamed Czech diplomatic sources and the British weekly European Voice. 'Legislative ...