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Several reports indicate she is, but the El Paso Times is reporting that she will be back to work on Monday Editor's Note: There are still conflicting reports in regard to this story. The version below indicates that she is not seeking asylum, but ...

The Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agency is under mounting pressure to reveal its tactics in tackling the rising violence among Mexico?s drug cartels after an agent accused the organisation of knowingly allowing guns to slip across the border. The ...

Crime-ridden Northern Mexico may have lost another resident to drug related activities. This loss could be more significant, however: Marisol Valles Garcia, the 20 year old single mother and police chief is rumored to have fled the city of Praxedis G. ...

FLORENCE, Italy -- Svetlana Cojochru feels insulted. The Moldovan has lived here seven years as a nanny to Italian kids and caregiver to the elderly, but in order to stay she's had to prove her language skills by writing a postcard to an imaginary friend ...

It is a well known fact that the United States is the preferred destination for all immigrants. Though an immigrant can visit and work in the US with a visa or green card, becoming a US citizen has its own advantages. US laws does give many rights to ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- The immigration measures approved by both chambers Friday night would allow illegal immigrants to get a permit to work in Utah. But they also include a requirement that police check the immigrant status of anyone stopped for a felony or ...

The Rancho Cordova resident of Armenian origin faces deportation as she illegally entered the U.S. nine years ago, the Sacramento Bee website reports. Silva Mamigonian was told by immigration officials she had to return back to Armenia as the woman ...

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The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Brazil would like to warn Brazilian citizens that fraudulent e-mails, websites, and print advertisements offering visa services are on the rise. In particular, one widespread Diversity Visa (DV) scam e-mail instructs ...

US has said it is currently focusing on the reinstatement of those students not implicated in the ongoing investigations into the visa scam by the California-based . "I think the focus right now (is) on what happens for students who are not implicated in ...

A college student and mother who became the police chief of a Mexican border town has fled to the United States seeking asylum, one of her relatives said. ...

Arab foreign ministers condemned Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's bloody crackdown on his own people, and said they would consider imposing a no-fly zone over the country in the turmoil continues. While no final decision has been made on an air embargo, ...

Pine Valley, Calif. - A harsh winter storm hit east San Diego County, delivering freezing rain and up to four feet of snow in some areas. Border Patrol agents responded to the storm this past Saturday, February 26 and rendered life-saving assistance to a ...

MEXICO CITY - Surviving relatives of a slain human-rights activist said Friday that they are seeking asylum in the United States after several family members were killed and others received death threats. Marisela Reyes said the last straw was a death ...

After became the police chief of the small Mexican town of Praxedis, she became known as the bravest woman in town. Now has apparently fled the Mexican town and is seeking asylum from the United States of America. According to the statement of a close ...

PR Newswire WASHINGTON, March 4, 2011 Suspect Released By Obama DHS Despite Multiple Arrests WASHINGTON, March 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced ...

Author: Andrew Stuttaford Here , writing in the First Post is Robert Fox on what the plight of migrant workers on the Libyan border might presage: Curiously, in almost none of the international television coverage of the refugees at ...

Before a US border patrol agent was killed in a shootout with Mexican bandits, the agents opened fire with bean bags. Found at the scene: two guns the ATF allowed gun runners to purchase. Atlanta The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ...

A handful of communities across the country have attempted to and in many cases successfully enacted a series of immigration controls that stoke fear in Latino and immigrant communities. But a reportfrom the Center for American Progress found that these ...