Immigration News from around the Web

A Boston-based tech company is drawing fire from immigrant advocates for developing a game that allows users to drive a truck full of immigrants through the desert and try not to have them tossed out. "Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration," a proposed ...

PR Newswire NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2011 Organization, and Pro Bono Partners, Secure Safe Haven for 101 Clients NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Immigration Equality, a national organization that helps obtain asylum for individuals persecuted ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions on January 26, 2011 to reach the annual cap limit for fiscal year (FY) 2011. USCIS will reject cap-subject petitions received after ...

Arizona lawmakers are holding a hearing on a bill that challenges automatic U.S. citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. The bill to be heard Monday by the Senate judiciary committee provides a definition of a citizen of Arizona as a person who ...

(IPS) - In the quiet desert community of Nomirage, located just 20 kilometres east of San Diego, the sounds of impending war creep over the silent landscape. Armed with a 100-million-dollar budget and over 1,000 acres of desert space, Brandon Webb, ...

By Randall Palmer and Louise Egan OTTAWA (Reuters) - Swift action is needed to put meat on the bones of a framework border-security agreement announced by President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canadian business analysts said ...

PHOENIX - Arizona lawmakers give their first hearing Monday to a bill that challenges automatic U.S. citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, the state's latest foray into the national debate over illegal immigration. The bill to be heard Monday ...

(Mission Valley News, San Diego, CA) Last month a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialist from the Port of San Diego stopped a highly-destructive beetle, never before seen in the U.S., from entering the country. On January 3, a ...

PHOENIX - Arizona lawmakers give their first hearing Monday to a bill that challenges automatic U.S. citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, the state's latest foray into the national debate over illegal immigration. The bill to be heard Monday ...

The Arizona Republic When six Arcadia High School students embarked on their project, their goal sprang from the pure idealism of the young: Reveal a solution to the problem of illegal immigration by making a documentary. After five months, dozens of ...

H-1B visa quota for the current year have been exhausted. Therefore, one will not be able to apply for the H-1B category for any candidates till April 1, 2011. Additionally, though we can apply in April the earliest the candidates can start working in ...

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SALT LAKE CITY ? Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, outlined for Utah lawmakers Monday what he called the multitrillion dollar problems facing the country, and he agreed Washington must address illegal immigration. "We're speaking in terms of trillions with a ...

WASHINGTON: Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Indians are sneaking into the United States across the Mexico border in what American authorities are saying is a sudden and unexpected spike in illegal immigration from a country half way across the world ...

The consular at the United States Embassy in Banjul has announced that effective March 1st, 2011, there will be some changes in the application process for US visa. The changes, according to him will involve how an applicant makes his or her appointment ...

A Homeland Security Department program that was supposed to automate the processing of immigration papers still has not launched, after the agency responsible failed to complete a required pilot test and then continued to spend four years and more than ...

By Gary Robbins / USGS The earthquake began 4.8 miles beneath the Earth's surface. - USGS The earthquake began 4.8 miles beneath the Earth's surface. A magnitude 4.0 earthquake occurred along the U.S.-Mexico border at 3:56 p.m., breaking on or near the ...

After Arizona rancher Robert Krentz was killed on his land last year by a man police believe was an illegal immigrant, television networks and more than 300 newspapers wrote about his death as an example of the dangers on the border. Two months after ...

January, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 H-1B cap has been reached as of 26 January 2011 (both for the "master's" and "regular" quotas under the cap). As such, the USCIS is no longer ...

San Clemente, Calif. Early this morning, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested eight male Mexican nationals in San Clemente after they were illegally smuggled into the country by boat. At about 2:45 a.m., Border Patrol agents working near the San ...