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Mexico, Dec 29 (Prensa Latina) On January 1, Mexican farmers and social groups will make a human wall on the border checkpoint in Ciudad Juarez to protest against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). 'That human wall will be built on the ...

olitics can be an ugly affair, and it doesn't get any uglier than when politicians try to best one another in the politics of hate and scapegoating. That's what is happening in America, as politicians and political candidates at all levels of government ...

Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, minces few words in regarding the European Unions so-called Blue Card. In the piece, which was recently published in The Washington Post and other major newspapers, he lauds European leaders for advancing a plan to ...

Workers have been crossing north to the U.S. for more than a century. It wasn't always so controversial Browse Issues Story Tools digg this Editor's Rating: The Good: A useful guide to the history of labor exchange between the U.S. and Mexico. ...

Mexican Migrants Sing about US Repression Mexico, Dec 28 (Prensa Latina) Mexican immigrants in the United States are singing their vision of justice, life and fear to repression they have suffered in that country, in corridos, the famous Mexican folk ...

MIAMI - The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Knight Island repatriated 28 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cubanas, Cuba, Thursday who were interdicted aboard a go-fast vessel Friday. A C-130 Hercules aircraft crew from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., ...

Despite opposition on Capitol Hill, Shawnee, Kansas-native Julie Myers recently won the U.S. Senate's approval to continue leading the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The Kansas City Star talked Thursday with Myers about her ...

Bush and Congress cannot and will not prevail against the will of the American people regarding unchecked, unending illegal immigration in 2008. Here's what my readers and a few experts have to say... 'Please read, grade and see who stands for our ...

News Alerts by Email click here ) News | Home Current News News by Category Mexico City, Dec 28 - Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) has said it will introduce electronic registration for foreigners entering the country through the southern ...

PHOENIX - The state Attorney General's Office and Arizona's 15 county attorneys want business groups suing to block the state's new employer-sanctions law to reveal the names of three employers who knowingly employ illegal immigrants. The business ...

HAVANA: Two Cubans in a boatload of people being smuggled to the United States drowned last week when their craft capsized off the island's coast, authorities said Thursday. Nine other passengers and two smugglers managed to swim to shore. A note from ...

Two Cubans in a boatload of people being smuggled to the United States drowned last week when their craft capsized off the island's coast, authorities said Thursday. Nine other passengers and two smugglers managed to swim to shore. A note from Cuba's ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 Naturalists who do field work on the border between the United States and Mexico are increasingly wary of drug and people smugglers. While there are no statistics on interactions between scientists and smugglers, many researchers ...

LANSING, Mich. - Illegal immigrants are ineligible for driver's licenses, Michigan's attorney general said Thursday in an opinion that affects one of the few states that have been granting licenses to undocumented residents. Attorney General Mike Cox's ...

Uncertainty exists in the U.S. sugar market due to the opening of duty free trade with Mexico on Jan. 1 and the lack of a final version of a new farm bill with its requisite sugar program. But what is clear to the market is sugar supplies will be ample ...

(AP) Hispanic activists who viewed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as a voice of moderation on illegal immigration say they've been taken aback by the hard-line stance he's adopted as a presidential candidate. While governor, Huckabee gained favor ...

AMLITTLE ROCK, Arkansas-Hispanic activists who viewed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as a voice of moderation on illegal immigration say they have been taken aback by the hard-line stance he has adopted as a Republican presidential candidate. While ...

LOS ANGELES -- U.S. border authorities arrested just under 877,000 illegal crossers in fiscal 2007, which ended in September, down 20 percent compared with the year before, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. A drop in apprehensions is often ...

Source: American Shipper+ Shippers' NewsWire Date Posted: 12/26/2007 10:43:31 AM U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors have stopped several types of prohibited items from entering the country in recent days, according to the agency. Officers in ...

Vu Tran of Calgary, Alberta, figures he saved about US$14,000 when he recently bought a new car at a dealership in the U.S. state of Montana. After driving the 640 kilometers back to Calgary, he told family and friends about the deal and ended up coming ...