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MEXICO CITY, Sep 1 (IPS) - Activists in Latin America have been galvanised by atrocities like the recent massacre of 72 migrants near the U.S. border to step up their efforts on behalf of migrant rights. "We want to create a common front among ...

(CNSNews.com) - Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz., says it is 'an outrage' the Obama administration has stopped building the double-fencing needed to assist the Border Patrol in securing the U.S.-Mexico border and says it is time for the United ...

History buffs are getting a chance to hear all about Ellis Island's immigration story from the people who lived through it. A collection of oral histories from about 1,700 people who passed through Ellis Island starting in the late 1890s is going online. ...

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The unlawful flow of Mexican immigrants into the U.S. continues to slow, and the nations illegal immigrant population is down by nearly 1 million people, the Pew Hispanic Center said in a report released today. But Texas didnt show a decline in the ...

The number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in 20 years as substantially fewer undocumented workers from Mexico, Latin America and elsewhere are crossing the border in search of jobs, an independent research group says. ...

The United States is shockingly irrational in the way it handles immigration. Unlike other nations that strategically use immigration to pursue national goals, we lurch from concerns about border security to illegal immigrants to drugs and crime without ...

Between 2000 and 2005, an average of 850,000 people a year entered the United States without authorization, according to the report released Wednesday. As the economy plunged into recession between 2007 and 2009, that number fell to 300,000. The sharp ...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities confirm that a second migrant survived the massacre of 72 Central and South Americans near the border with the U.S. A spokesman for the Attorney General's office says a Honduran man also survived. Authorities previously ...

Sep-01-2010 The annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center. This ...

A New York teenager convicted for his role in the stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant has received an eight-year prison term. ...

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States, after peaking at 12 million in 2007, fell to about 11.1 million in 2009, the first clear decline in two decades, according to a report published Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center. The reduction ...

QUITO, EcuadorEcuador's president says a second person survived a drug gang's massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico. President Rafael Correa made the statement late Tuesday while welcoming the return of the only previously identified survivor, Freddy Lala ...

Update : 72 dead migrants found in Mexico tip of iceberg ...

The US government will have unmanned surveillance aircraft monitoring its whole border with Mexico from Sept. 1, labeling it as a 'critical step' in ensuring its border safety, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday. She made a ...

US Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell's senior advisor, Frederick Hof, is due to visit Lebanon and Israel to help bolster security on their common border following the deadly Aadeiseh clashes, according to a statement issued by the US State ...

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As the United States approaches into the 10th year of its combat operation in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama [ Images ] said that the leadership of Al Qaeda [ Images ] remains anchored in the border regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan."As we ...

A scientist with Canadian citizenship who has been accused of illegally sending trade secrets worth $300-million to China and Germany was ordered detained Tuesday on rare charges of economic espionage.A federal indictment unsealed in Indianapolis alleges ...