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The lid just might be blown off the H-1B visa abuse problem by a couple of good ol boys from Alabama. I cant say for sure, but I think the you-know-what is going to hit the fan. As I mentioned earlier in my post, "Yes, We in the U.S. Media Are ...

Utah Legislature passes immigration reform package Utah lawmakers have approved an immigration package that includes an enforcement law reminiscent of Arizona's but tempered with a guest worker program for illegal immigrants. Special report on illegal ...

In a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, DeFazio expressed his concern about the plan to allow Mexican trucking companies to operate long-haul trucking operations in the U.S. ...

A Jurez activist has fled Mexico and is now seeking asylum in El Paso, citing death threats against her, an advocacy center said Monday Cipriana Jurado, 46, will have her asylum hearing Wednesday. Jurado founded the Center for Information and ...

Like gout, anti-immigration restrictionism is a perennial affliction that comes and goes with the seasons. And with Republicans gaining ground this political season, get ready for a particularly painful bout of it. Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, a committed ...

Republican Vern Peck, member of the Kansas House of Representatives, shocked colleagues and others Monday when he suggestd on the House floor that illegal immigrants should be shot like feral pigs. During a meeting of the Kansas House Appropriations ...

Santo Domingo. Washington wanted the Dominican Government to remove the Army away from the border and create a Civil Guard in that zone, suggestion ignored by president Leonel Fernandez, his Antinarcotics Adviser revealed yesterday. Marino ...

Utah's answer to immigration reform is attracting a bevy of mixed reactions from across the country. Locally, KSL talks to several Utah legislators to find out their rationale behind the Utah Solution. Viewing the issue through more of a national lens, ...

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A New Mexico mayor, the police chief and a town official were busted in a scheme to supply Mexican drug cartels with guns, federal agents said. Eddie Espinoza, the mayor of Columbus, Angelo Vega, the police chief, and Blas Gutierrez, a village ...

Emissions causing acid rain have been cut in half and emissions causing smog by one-third in the border region of Canada and the United States over the past 20 years, Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent said Monday. Marking the 20th anniversary of ...

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SANAA, YEMEN - A British journalist says he and three other foreign reporters have been deported from Yemen after being detained for several hours. Oliver Holmes said five armed security agents took the reporters into custody Monday morning at the ...

U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials joined federal, state, local and tribal authorities and private sector stakeholders at the Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute, Arlington, Va., Friday to discuss and announce ...

ATLANTA -- The Georgia state Senate on Monday voted to pass an amended version of an immigration bill that would require many employers to check the immigration status of new hires and authorize police to verify the immigration status of criminal ...

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El Gigante de America Named Mexicos Ambassador for Migrants MEXICO CITY Mexicos National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, named the musical group El Gigante de America, known for its nortea music, as ambassador for migrants rights. The ...

March 15--A Juarez activist has fled Mexico and is now seeking asylum in El Paso, citing death threats against her, an advocacy center said Monday Cipriana Jurado, 46, will have her asylum hearing Wednesday. Jurado founded the Center for Information and ...

Houston: The U.S. is at a risk of falling behind in the global race for talent due to Washington's immigration policies that have caused slowdown in the entry of highly-skilled foreign workers, a study here said. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas which ...

Immigration officials are investigating whether Upper Crust Pizzeria harbored and exploited illegal immigrant workers, the second federal inquiry into the restaurant chain, according to several former employees with direct knowledge of the new ...