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LOS ANGELES - 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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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 ...

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Judicial Watch has released a report that confirms 29 incidents of Mexican Government incursion into the U.S. during the 2006 Fiscal Year. The government watchdog group says it obtained the Border Patrol report under provisions of the Freedom of ...

Musharraf warns US of any adventure Intrusion in border areas to be resisted as invasion Singapore-Warning against any "unilateral intervention" in Pakistan by coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf has said any such move ...

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PHILADELPHIA An Egyptian who fears he will be tortured for his Christian beliefs cannot be deported without full court review just to further U.S. diplomatic goals, a federal judge has determined. Sameh Khouzam, 38, credibly argued that he had been ...

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Pervez Musharraf warned U.S. troops will be regarded as invaders if they cross into Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan in the hunt for al-Qaida or Taliban militants in an interview published Friday. Musharraf, whose ...

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The United States would sell advanced technical equipment to Egypt to detect tunnels along the Egyptian-Gaza border, Abul Gheit was quoted as saying. However, the Egyptian foreign minister dismissed as groundless a permanent U.S. presence along the ...

The top Republican presidential candidates sparred over immigration, the economy and national security in a debate broadcast by Fox News Television. VOA's Brian Wagner reports the debate comes ahead of the latest round of primary votes. Republican ...

By ALICIA A. CALDWEL The Associated Press A NASCAR race car, sponsored by the U.S. Border Patrol. Billboards hundreds of miles from the Rio Grande, promoting a career as a border agent. TV commercials for the federal agency, aired during Dallas Cowboys ...

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One of the most contentious issues in the debate over immigration reform is how to deal with the estimated 12 million to 15 million people unlawfully in the United States. The legislation recently proposed in the Senate (S. 1639) presumes that legalizing ...

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

It all comes down to the word 'establish.' In the latest battle over cross-border trucking, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Teamsters and Congress are at loggerheads over whether to allow trucks from Mexico to cross freely into the United ...

EL PASO, Texas - With the Border Patrol undergoing an unprecedented hiring boom, the agency is going to extraordinary lengths to compete with police departments around the country for an unusually small pool of qualified applicants. 'We've not done ...

Researchers in New Mexico are looking into increased risk of breast and cervical cancers for women living along the New Mexico-Mexico border, the reports. Moraros is studying cervical cancer, while his wife, Yelena Bird, is looking into breast cancer ...