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WASHINGTON: The US Senate has blocked a bid to give children of illegal immigrants a path to legal status, again dashing hopes for meaningful action on immigration reform before next years elections. The bill, dubbed the Dream Act, would have offered the ...

WE CAN be sure of one thing about population forecasts. They will be wrong. They always are. They always have been. This is because they are unavoidably based on the assumption that current trends will continue. ...

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WASHINGTON Legislation to give some children of illegal immigrants a path toward legality failed a crucial Senate vote Wednesday, probably dooming any chance of major changes to the immigration system this year. Supporters needed to 60 votes to advance ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill that would have given the children of illegal immigrants a chance to become U.S. citizens by attending college or serving in the U.S. military was blocked in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday. A 52-44 vote on a motion to begin ...

Two American peace activists who were denied entry into Canada because they had been arrested for taking part in anti-war events in the U.S. say they will try again to cross the border. Ann Wright and Medea Benjamin said they plan to fly to Ottawa on ...

(CNSNews.com) - The so-called 'comprehensive approach' to immigration reform that co-joins stepped-up border security with legal and financial benefits for illegal aliens is untenable, some policy analysts suspect, because federal judges are likely to ...

(CNSNews.com) - The Senate on Wednesday will consider the DREAM Act, a bill that would open a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who were brought into the United States as children and who prove themselves as productive members of society. The ...

(AP) One of Southern California's largest wildfires has frightened many illegal immigrants from hiking through a popular corridor to cross from Mexico even as the Border Patrol has withdrawn some agents. Some consider the Border Patrol's pullback an ...

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Washington (USINFO) -- Stepped-up diplomatic efforts to reduce tensions along Iraq's northern border with Turkey after cross-border attacks by the terrorist group Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were the focus of an October 22 meeting between Secretary of ...

FIGHTS OVER immigration are often angry battles about who belongs in the country and who doesn't. But for many businesses, the more nagging issue is who will fill some of the country's most physically demanding jobs, from picking fruit to slaughtering ...

Text Size : U.S. authorities have temporarily shut down a troubled immigration detention center and moved hundreds of detainees to other facilities, officials said Tuesday. The center, located in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles, houses about 450 ...

Original article ( WASHINGTON, D.C. ) - Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today released a statement regarding an event Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) reportedly plans to hold in conjunction with discussion of the DREAM ACT - an event that will be ...

Raging wildfires in Southern California cloaked neighboring Mexican cities in a fog of suffocating ash today, shutting schools and businesses and a major US-Mexico border crossing. The normally bustling city of Tijuana, just 20 miles (32 km) from San ...

Cars Event tickets Jobs Real estate Shop Online degrees WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leaders have scheduled a showdown vote Wednesday on a bill that would give children brought to the USA by illegal immigrant parents a chance to qualify for ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate faces another contentious showdown on immigration Wednesday when it considers legislation designed to put thousands of undocumented immigrant students on track to U.S. citizenship. Though far more limited than a comprehensive ...

NEW YORK: Two U.S. peace activists who were denied entry to Canada because their arrests for protesting the war in Iraq landed them on an FBI crime database say they will try again to enter the country on Thursday. The activists and their supporters ...

Cars Event tickets Jobs Real estate Shop Online degrees PARIS (AP) - French lawmakers adopted a hotly contested bill on Tuesday that would institute language exams and potential DNA testing for prospective immigrants, making it more difficult for ...

Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson offered an immigration plan on Tuesday that would cut off federal grants for cities and states that fail to report illegal immigrants or offer public benefits to them. Reuters - Click here to view the ...