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NEW YORK Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced Wednesday he was scrapping his plan to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, saying that overwhelming public opposition had destroyed the proposal's chances of passing. 'It does not take a stethoscope to ...

NEW YORK - A leading U.S. civil liberties group mounted a legal challenge against the U.S. government on Wednesday over its refusal to grant a visa to a leading South African Muslim academic. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the case in Boston ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city has approved a program to provide identification cards to illegal immigrants, transgender people and other residents who may be unable or unwilling to get a state-issued driver's license. The identification card program was ...

When nearby counties began trying to drive out illegal immigrants this summer, Arlington said it would treat everyone with 'dignity and respect, regardless of immigration status.' Other counties felt overwhelmed by immigrants, but Arlington officials ...

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 14 -- Mexican President Felipe Caldern took the unusual step Wednesday of injecting himself into U.S. presidential politics, calling Mexican migrants 'thematic hostages' of the race and urging candidates not to use them as a talking ...

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's proposal for a hefty increase in H-1B visa fees from the present $1,500 to $5,000 is off the table. The hike, approved three weeks ago, has been dropped by House and Senate negotiators. The US Senate's proposal for a hefty increase in H-1B visa fees ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The city has approved a program to provide identification cards to illegal immigrants, transgender people and other residents who may be unable or unwilling to get a state-issued driver's license. The identification card program was ...

SAN FRANCISCO The city of San Francisco has tentatively approved a program to provide identification cards to illegal immigrants, transgender people and other residents who may be unable or unwilling to get a state-issued driver's license. The Board of ...

Eliot Spitzer, governor of New York state, has dropped contentious plans to issue driver's licences to illegal immigrants, highlighting the political sensitivity surrounding immigration ahead of next year's US elections.Mr Spitzer's proposals had become ...

Quebec firefighters responding to a call for help from their American counterparts got a surprise at the border crossing. They were held up by border guards while a nearby hotel burned away. For nearly forty years, members of the Lacolle Fire Department ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Customs and Border Protection should review and reduce excessive security measures at the Canada-U.S. line or risk turning it into a parking lot, Ambassador Michael Wilson told the agency Wednesday. Idling trucks on both sides of the ...

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Source: Constellation Brands, Inc. Fairport, New York, Nov. 12 - Constellation Brands, Inc. and Fortune Brands, Inc. today announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Constellation will acquire Fortune's U.S. wine business for $885 ...

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea: U.S. and South Korean officials celebrated the long-delayed start of construction Tuesday on the American military's new headquarters on the peninsula, part of a movement of forces away from the North Korean border. Despite ...

Fiddling While Rome Burns? Bush, Reid/Pelosi Congress out-to-lunch on immigration John Dendahl This essay proceeds from the writers belief that the greatest privilege any person can enjoy is citizenship in the United States of America. Second is holding ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Minister of National Defense Lee Tien-yu admitted yesterday that he didn't know whether Lin Qin-jing, a former air force lieutenant-colonel, had recently obtained American nationality just after retiring, as claimed in the Monday's ...

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In September, NPR's Claudio Sanchez reported on the fallout from a huge immigration raid in New Bedford, Mass. Sanchez revisits one of the families to hear its tragic story a husband, deported to Guatemala, returned to the U.S. only to die in his wife's ...

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico: Authorities in Mexico's Chiapas state nabbed 164 Central American migrants jammed into a single truck that pretended to be carrying aid to flood-stricken Tabasco state. 'The migrant traffickers used surprising methods to try to ...