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WASHINGTON: -- U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) berated the White House on Wednesday for failing to urge expansion of the H-1B program . Hatch, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance, raised his concern at a committee hearing on President ...

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 ...

Staff member was killed in a U.S. customs, immigration and another was seriously wounded shot by unknown assailants in Mexico during the performance of their work according to U.S. and Mexican sources. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary in a statement ...

Borders to close its doors Grape Road site among 200 being shut across U.S. The closing of the Mishawaka Borders bookstore within the next several weeks will mean a hole for both the Grape Road shopping district and many area shoppers. Sales are expected ...

Borders US has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company will close up to 30% of its stores -- about 200 locations -- in coming weeks. Borders US owes publishers and other top creditors over US$300 million. The company has liabilities totalling ...

According to a report released this week, integrating technologies, especially communications systems and infrastructure, along the U.S.-Mexico border is a critical, urgent and cost-effective imperative to improving security and trade and is the keystone ...

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that he is in favour of expansion of , 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 testimony before the Senate ...

were shot, one died and the other is seriously injured. The two agents were assigned to an special mission on Mexico, a country which is struggling hard against of drug cartels.Homeland Security Secretary said one agent died from his injuries. The second ...

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TWO US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents were shot in Mexico today. The agents, who had been assigned to the ICE Attache office in Mexico City, were shot while driving between Mexico City and Monterrey by unknown assailants, ICE ...

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. ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON At least 600 kilometers (373 miles), or 19 percent, of the border between the United States and Mexico lack the monitoring needed to prevent illegal activities, such as drug and people trafficking, the Government Accountability Office, the ...

MEXICO CITY - The fatal shooting of a U.S. federal agent in Mexico may lead to new security measures for the expanding corps of American personnel participating evermore deeply in Mexico's drug war, but it is not expected to fundamentally alter the ...

President Barack Obama has extended his condolences to the parents of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was killed Tuesday in Mexico. U.S. and Mexican officials are setting up a task force to find those responsible. ...

(02-16) 16:47 PST SAN MATEO -- A Palestinian blocked from joining his family in the Bay Area four years ago after being stopped at San Francisco International Airport with material on the Islamist group Hamas in his computer can be deported as a ...

Julio Santamaria throws his arms up in celebration with his wife Amelia, left, as they throw a party for their classmates Monday at Marchman Technical Education Centers citizenship and ESOL class. [Photos by BRENDAN FITTERER | Times] NEW PORT RICHEY ...

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MEXICO CITY The Mexican Senate committed itself Tuesday before diplomats from several Central American countries to draft a new immigration law that guarantees the human rights of undocumented migrants traveling through Mexico. The draft legislation ...