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Authorities have repatriated 16 of 17 Cubans abandoned by smugglers on a sandbar off Key Biscayne on New Year's Day, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday. Twelve Cubans swam ashore that morning -- but one man, Feisy Rafael-Miranda, 28, was swept away and ...

With the heated debate over undocumented workers poised to take center stage in the November election, a historian who researched the ethnic cleansing of Chinese Americans cautions against repeating the dark chapter of the American history. 'The idea of ...

Marcelino Benitez said his best academic year was 12th grade. He got all A's and B's, learned to install heating and air-conditioning systems in a vocational training program and won a college scholarship. But unlike many of his classmates, he dreaded ...

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(Reuters) - A teenager was injured when U.S. border patrol agents fired tear gas into Mexico over the weekend, despite a Mexican government complaint that U.S. agents were using excessive force. Fifteen-year-old Cristian Saldana was hit in the nose by a ...

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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's government criticized the U.S. Border Patrol for firing tear gas into Mexican territory, a new tactic that U.S. authorities say protects agents against rocks and other projectiles hurled at them from across the border. U.S. agents ...

Source: American Shipper+ Shippers' NewsWire Date Posted: 1/11/2008 10:39:04 AM The International Brotherhood of Teamsters filed a letter Monday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco claiming the Bush administration has violated an ...

PM Mexico City, Jan 12 (EFE).- The Mexican government has complained of aggression by the U.S. Border Patrol after agents presumably lobbed tear-gas grenades across the border from the United States into Mexican territory at Tijuana. The Mexican Foreign ...

Bush's exclusion of reason has made the world a much more dangerous place. Americans tend to be amnesiacs. History for them isn't something to worry about too much. To be fair, people and governments never have learnt anything from history, or acted on ...

SAN DIEGO - That the government wanted to put Mel Kay behind a prison fence is an irony, though one that neither he nor his accusers would find amusing. Mel Kay builds fences. His was the largest fence-building company in Southern California; he rode the ...

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's government criticized the U.S. Border Patrol for firing tear gas into Mexican territory, a new tactic that U.S. authorities say protects agents against rocks and other projectiles hurled at them from across the border. U.S. agents ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - U.S. immigration agents must not sedate deportees without a judge's permission, according to a policy change issued this week. Immigration officials have acknowledged that 56 deportees were given psychotropic drugs during a seven-month ...

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ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf warned that US troops would be regarded as invaders if they crossed into Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan in the hunt for Al Qaeda or Taliban militants, according to an interview published yesterday. ...

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U.S. quits sedating deportees without court OK Agents must show that there's a risk of resistance or other danger LOS ANGELES - U.S. immigration officials have told their agents not to sedate deportees without a court order, according to a memo obtained ...

LOS ANGELES Immigration officials have acknowledged that 56 deportees were given psychotropic drugs during a seven-month period in 2006 and 2007 even though most had no history of mental problems. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal ...