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(CNSNews.com) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported 298,410 illegal aliens in fiscal 2009, only 2.98 percent of the 10 million people it estimated were in the United States illegally. The number of deportations in fiscal 2009 was far ...

May 25: Shackled Mexican immigrants are directed by a guard to a waiting deportation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Harlingen, Texas. PHOENIX -- Arizona legislators are setting aside Gov. Jan Brewer's suggestion that lawmakers ...

America may be known as the land of opportunity, but for an increasing number of people it is an offer they are not willing to take. Last year alone an estimated 700 people renounced their US citizenship three times as many as the year before. Ken ...

USIBWC awards contract for Presidio Levee Construction funded by the Recovery Act EL PASO -- The United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC) has awarded a construction contract in the amount of $6.3 million for ...

Ron St. Onge steps into the role of interim director of the Reves Center for International Studies with a clearly demonstrated heart for the world. From 1970, when he taught his first French class as a newly hired William & Mary faculty member, to the ...

Beth Day Romulo While a comprehensive immigration reform bill languishes in the United States Congress, Arizona, a border state where immigration is a hot issue, passed its own Draconian immigration law. It would allow police to stop and detain people on ...

A judge who granted asylum to President Barack Obamas African aunt said she deserved to stay in the US because a government official who leaked her status made her a potential target in her native Kenya.US Immigration Judge Leonard Shapiro blasted the ...

Washington: Amid reports that India may take it to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for a new law to hike worker visa fees, the United States hopes it would not affect their long term economic partnership. "What I can say is that we understand the ...

An immigration judge's decision to grant the president's aunt asylum rested on the implications of the high-profile case for her safety if deported, : The immigration judge who granted President Obamas aunt asylum three months ago based his decision ...

Immigration and the perception of runaway federal spending are hot-button political issues as the nation heads into the mid-term elections. With a new border security bill, President Obama has touched on both. The newly enacted border security bill, ...

'It was a nice little town,' Maria explains as she sets the food on the table. Sitting down she continues, 'a safe place to grow up.' Her eyes are full of memories as she drifts back to a previous time; she even draws a little map of the local ftbol ...

A judge who granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt ruled she deserved to stay in the United States because a federal government official leaked her status to a news organisation, making her a potential target for persecution in her ...

NEW DELHI: The worlds largest lobby group, the US Chamber of Commerce, has come out strongly in favour of more H-1B visas, saying that work visas benefit the US economy with more patents. The report cites research undertaken at large US tech companies ...

New Delhi: India may drag US to the World Trade Organisation for its new "protectionist" move in hiking professional visa fees, a step that will make Indian IT companies less competitive in the American market. The fee hike is expected to cost Indian ...

bill that includes an increase in fees for companies that employ professionals on H-1B and L visas. H.R. 6080, which provides $600 million in emergency supplemental appropriations for fiscal 2010 to secure the Southwest border and enhance federal border ...

Recent assertions that the 14th Amendment should be revised to prevent illegal immigrants from "baby dropping" could yield new ideas about what it means to be an American citizen [" '," news story, Aug. 11]. A review of the amendment could lead to a ...

The US government is checking suggestions that the border security Bill, recently enacted and signed into law by President Barack Obama, which could nearly double H1B and L1 visa fees for some Indian IT companies, may breach World trade Organisation ...

Here's an update on the increased visa costs likely to be levied on Indian IT companies thanks to the US Border Security Bill, reports CNBC-TV18 quoting sources. National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) sources say that due to ...

WASHINGTON: Corporate America has warned the US Congress and the Obama administration that an increasingly closed-door policy on hiring skilled professionals from countries such as India would hurt the US economy by weakening its global competitiveness. ...

BOSTONA judge in Boston who granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt ruled she deserved to stay in the United States because a federal government official leaked her status to a news organization. U.S. Immigration Judge Leonard Shapiro ...