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WASHINGTON (AFP) The United States urged Iran Monday to accept an asylum offer from Brazil for a Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. "If Brazil is willing to accept... this woman, we would hope that Iran would consider that as a ...

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Steve Doocy falsely claimed that Obama "promised 1200 National Guard troops would be at the border by August 1st" and suggested Obama may "wait until November just in time for those midterm elections."In fact, the National Guard announced on July ...

Washington (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), blamed Republicans on Thursday for the Senates inaction on immigration reform. In response to Menendezs comments, National ...

Reporting from Phoenix Arizona has made a name for itself as the state with the harshest policies against illegal immigration. But as few as six years ago, this border state was among the nation's most welcoming of illegal immigrants. Back then, its two ...

TEGUCIGALPA, M.D.C. - The U.S. Department of State has announced an increase in non-immigrant visa application fees effective June 4, 2010. The new fees more accurately reflect the cost of adjudicating applications for various visa classes, based on an ...

Philip Caputo; David Danelo; Margaret Regan About the Program From the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books a panel on writing on and living near the U.S. and Mexican Border. The panelists include Margaret Regan, The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from ...

For OpEdNews: Mary Shaw - Writer The ongoing national debate on immigration reached a fever pitch on July 28, when U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton blocked some of the more draconian provisions of Arizona's controversial anti-immigrant law (SB 1070), ...

Palin's use of the Spanish term for "testicles" -- or "courage," in the vernacular -- has precedents in politics. President George W. Bush used it in the run-up to the Iraq invasion in 2003, according to Bob Woodward's "Plan of Attack," when he told an ...

Manuel Balce Ceneta President Barack Obama, from left, talks with his daughter Sasha Obama as they watch the WNBA game between the Washington Mystics and Tulsa Shock with an unidentified friend of Sasha's and Sheila Johnson, part owner of the Mystics, ...

U.S. President Obama, acknowledging state officials are frustrated, said immigration reform is the responsibility of the federal government. 'I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. But what we can't do is demagogue the issue,' Obama said ...

Immigration controls must be put into place, says the president, but he won't accept a patchwork of 50 different states acting on their own. ...

Last week, the Obama administration got Clinton-appointed Judge Susan Bolton to at least temporarily throw out key provisions of Arizona's immigration law. Within 24 hours came more evidence that they weren't done eviscerating immigration enforcement ...

A Cuban refugee in Spain has ended a hunger strike after getting a new Spanish government promise that he will get residency and a work permit -- 15 months after he was first promised them. Jorge Alberto Prez Fernndez said a senior Interior Ministry ...

The Common Ground conversations between Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel continue to be one of my favorite USA TODAY features. But Beckel's correct identification of the Arizona immigration debate as having some relationship to "skin color" was quickly ...

Comments:Anything that reveals the truth about what 0bama wants and thinks erodes his support because he is hardly a genuine American or a patriot. 0bama and his handlers seem to think he can get reelected with some new coalition of minorities, far ...

WASHINGTON - President Obama doesn't have the "cojones" to protect America's border with Mexico, Sarah Palin charged Sunday. In lashing out at the President's manhood, the former Alaska governor was lamenting a federal judge's decision last week to toss ...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Sunday that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has the cojones that President Obama does not have to take on illegal immigration. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Palin blasted Obama for suing Arizona to block ...

Comments:It's a national problem that the federal gov refuses to address adequately and these statements come from a poseur who told Sen. Kyl and which subsequently leaked out via a memo that he wants a general amnesty and it's all about the votes. ...

The two countries have conducted previous joint surveys in the Arctic area Canada and the United States are beginning a five-week joint Arctic survey, part of which will take place in a section of the energy-rich Beaufort Sea that is claimed by both ...