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Violence on the United States - Mexico Border By Sam Logan and M Casey McCarty Due to increased pressure from the Caldern administration, some members of Mexican organized crime may begin crossing the border in significant numbers to set up US-based ...

ROYAL PALM BEACH, HIALEAH, KENDALL, MIAMI AND OAKLAND PARK, FLA. Moss & Associates are constructing a $60 million, LEED-certified project for developer South Florida Federal Partners that is inclusive of a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...

PM MOSCOW. Feb 5 (Interfax) - Renowned Russian lawyer Boris Kuznetsov has asked the United States to grant him political asylum. 'Boris asked the U.S. authorities for political asylum, at the insistence of his friends, including myself, given that he is ...

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US Border Patrol officials say they have arrested a man who escaped from the Maze prison in 1983 at a border checkpoint in Southern Texas on Monday night. Border Patrol official Oscar Soldana said the man produced an out-of-date immigration document at ...

WASHINGTON - President Bush proposed Monday to increase spending on border security by 19 percent next year, a move hailed by one conservative critic as a step in the right direction but assailed by congressional Democrats as insufficient to shore up ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it is making funding available for grant programs designed to promote public education efforts regarding immigration-related employment discrimination. The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration ...

Spurred by the widespread crackdown on illegal immigration and by the contentious tone of the national immigration debate, Latinos are gearing up for Tuesdays voting with an eye toward making Hispanics a decisive voting bloc nationwide in November. After ...

La Prensa-San Diego, News Report , Luis Alonso Prez and Mariana Martnez, Posted: Feb 04, 2008 TIJUANA, Mex. -- Colonia Libertad is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Tijuana, with its little sheds and houses, stretching along the rusty border fence. It ...

(Reuters) - The Bush administration proposed new spending of more than $600 million to tighten U.S. borders with fencing along the frontier with Mexico and add patrol agents and more beds for detained illegal immigrants. 'A major priority of our ...

While the Republican presidential candidates have made immigration reform one of the major issues in the campaign and have even linked it to national security, it has gotten a much lower profile among Democrats. This time last year, immigration had ...

Summary: On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski said of Sen. John McCain, '[F]or the most part, he really does stick to his views even if they're unpopular,' adding that McCain's 'views on immigration were unpopular, and he stood by them even at the peril of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration proposed new spending of more than $2 billion to tighten U.S. borders with fencing along the frontier with Mexico and add patrol agents and more beds for detained illegal immigrants. 'A major priority of our ...

(Adds Democratic criticism, updates spending) WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The Bush administration proposed new spending of more than $2 billion to tighten U.S. borders with fencing along the frontier with Mexico and add patrol agents and more beds for ...

'I will vote for the first time,' said Ms. Betancur, who became a US citizen three years ago. 'I came to this country many years ago with my heart in my hands. It makes me very happy to know that I can, for the first time ... represent my own voice.' ...

It also provided instructions for how to deal with the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr: His status as a hostile foe was 'suspended,' and he and his key associates were not to be attacked except in self-defense. Wikileaks said its goal in disclosing ...

NAIROBI, Feb. 4 -- Rebel fighters withdrew from the Chadian capital overnight after government forces used helicopter gunships and tanks to repel an attempted coup. Leaders of the gang that attacked N'Djamena in gun-mounted pickup trucks said they had ...

It also provided instructions for how to deal with the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr: His status as a hostile foe was 'suspended,' and he and his key associates were not to be attacked except in self-defense. Wikileaks said its goal in disclosing ...

(CNN) -- -- Amadou Diouf, an immigrant from Senegal, says U.S. agents injected him with drugs against his will as he was about to be deported in February 2007. He and another immigrant who made similar claims sued the government, leading to a change in ...

the U.S. Department of State will institute a new fee schedule for passport services. At this time applicants will also have the option of ordering a new Passport Card -- a low cost, limited use (land and sea only) alternative to the Passport Book ...