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Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn't think a new border fee is a useful way for the U.S. to raise money. U.S. President Obama wants to charge Canadians entering by air or sea a $5.50 fee, but with private vehicles exempt. ...

"DHS is replacing its border security measures, which could temporarily reduce oversight, and reports it may reduce resources requested for securing the southwest border." - GAO Report Only days after Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano ...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the proposal to charge Canadians to enter the U.S. is not a ''useful'' way for the U.S. to raise revenue. Pawel Dwulit/THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian Press Prime Minister Stephen Harper says there are better ways for ...

Less than half of the U.S.-Mexico border is under operational control of the U.S. Border Patrol, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office . The GAO reports that Mexico's border with Texas is the most vulnerable, particularly ...

By Julian Cardona and Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico/El PASO, Texas (Reuters) - A video shoot-up that turns Mexican cartel violence in one of the world's most violent cities into a role-playing game is upsetting residents on both sides ...

Even as federal immigration officials were telling Arlington County, San Francisco and other jurisdictions that they could not opt out of a controversial immigration enforcement program, they were telling other municipalities that they could, according ...

An expansion of H-1B visa scheme which is highly popular among Indian IT professionals would help the US in a big way in competing with emerging economies like India and China, a key Senate panel has heard. In a testimony before the Senate Committee on ...

BORDERS Malaysia is not affected by the closing down of stores and Chapter 11 filing of US-based Borders Group Inc. Borders Malaysia said its only tie to Borders Group is via a franchise agreement that allows Berjaya Books Sdn Bhd to use the Borders ...

A judge has granted Borders Group approval on an interim basis to use $US400 million of the $US505 million in financing it has been offered to pay its vendors back and keep its business going, including honouring its loyalty program and gift cards. The ...

Singaporean Ramzi Mohamed is tired of sleeping in the living room of the two-bedroom apartment he shares with his mother and older brother. His problem is that housing prices in the city-state are up almost 70 percent since 2006 while the 29-year-old gym ...

Robert Paul Reyes "A slim majority of Republicans are still in disbelief that President Barack Obama, now in his third year in office, was born in the United States and therefore is legally eligible to be president, according to a poll by the Democratic ...

Washington (CNN) - Rep. Michele Bachmann Thursday noticeably sidestepped the long-standing issue of President Obama's citizenship, saying "it's not for me to state" whether the president is or is not an American citizen. "That's for the president to ...

The Federal Reserve moderately raised its projections for economic growth this year amid the recent surge in consumer spending, but central bank officials continued to lament the slow pace of improvement in the job market. The Fed's latest economic ...

Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann stopped by Good Morning America today, where she gave very few clear answers on a vast array of subjects. First, when George Stephanopoulos asked the Minnesota Republican what it would take for her to run for ...

WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that he is in favour of expansion of H-1B visa programme, offered to highly skilled professionals and students to live and work in the country. "I agree with you on H-1B," Geithner said in his ...

The last three states to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses -- Washington, New Mexico and Utah -- are now steeped in battles to revise their laws as a federal deadline approaches for all 50 states to issue identity cards that meet a new ...

Borders and Angus & Robertson entered administration on Thursday, just a day after Borders US filed for bankruptcy protection.The development is no small matter: ... Read the full story at Guardian Have your say on this story Your nickname (required) ...

Washington (CNN) - Rep. Michele Bachmann Thursday noticeably sidestepped the long-standing issue of President Obama's citizenship, saying "it's not for me to state" whether the president is or is not an American citizen. "That's for the president to ...

It's estimated that poor Mexican workers have invested more than $2 million in U.S. jobs that don't exist. Pedro Clemente, 18, and his wife Maria Rafael, 17, undocumented farm laborers from Mexico, work in an artichoke field in Thermal, Calif. (Robyn ...

Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents serving in Mexico were attacked Tuesday when gunmen opened fire on the blue Suburban in which they were traveling. Special Agent Jaime Zapata, on assignment from his post in Laredo, Texas to the ...