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The clash occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles from the Arizona border - a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling. Sonora's Attorney General's Office said in a statement that nine people were captured by police at the scene of ...

United States president Barack Obama is demanding sweeping reforms to his country's immigration policies. But it is unclear whether the US Congress will act before November's mid-term elections. In his first major speech on immigration reform since ...

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Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) Many coming to U.S. being used to ferry drugs, Brewer says Arizona Governor Jan Brewer declared that many illegal Mexican immigrants crossing into the border are being used to transport narcotics - 'mules' for drug ...

Recent protests against a contested law in Arizona. (Getty) In his first major speech on the issue since taking office, President Barack Obama said that the US immigration system "offends our most basic American values" and blamed Republican opposition ...

The clash occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles from the Arizona border - a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling. Sonora's Attorney General's Office said in a statement that nine people were captured by police at the scene of ...

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - A clash between suspected members of rival drug gangs left 21 people dead on Thursday in a rural area of the Mexican state of Sonora, very close to the US border, Mexican justice officials said. The clash involved 'two groups of ...

A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the US border Thursday left 21 people dead and at least six others wounded, prosecutors said. The firefight occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles (20 kilometers) ...

President Barack Obama renewed his push for U.S. immigration reform on Thursday, reaching out to Hispanic voters despite minimal chances that Congress will pass such legislation this year. In a broad speech that did not break new policy ground, Obama, a ...

President Obama haskicked off his next legislative initiative in his perpetual campaign to avoid having to talk about how his economic interventions are reaping the whirlwind: Comprehensive Immigration Reform, an issue that has been the graveyard of ...

Topics: Democracy, The Americas Keywords: immigration reform, Barack Obama, Arizona law, undocumented immigrants, Southwest border security, illegal immigrants, Congress Staff Writer Washington President Obama says the only way to repair Americas ...

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama called on Republicans to back reforms to bring 11 million illegal immigrants out of the shadows, but his foes swiftly accused him of cynical "political pandering." After 18 months in office, and repeated vows ...

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Topics: Diversity, The Americas Keywords: Barack Obama, immigration, border security Obama highlights importance of immigration reform, bipartisan support The White House Office of the Press Secretary July 01, 2010 Remarks by the President on ...

President Obamas call on Thursday for the federal government to quickly pass immigration reform was backed by diverse and somewhat unlikely groups of religious leaders. African-American and Hispanic pastors joined forces Wednesday in a first-of-its kind ...

In President Barack Obama's speech on immigration at American University today he described a "sense of urgency" surrounding the country's broken immigration system, but what really stood out from the speech was the degree to which Obama didn't seem to ...

President Obama cited the wave of Jewish immigration at the turn of the 20th century in pressing for immigration reform. ...

Reporting from Washington ? President Obama on Thursday morning called U.S. immigration a broken system that "offends our most basic American values" and blamed the failure to fix the system on a lack of political will. Even as he did so, however, the ...

President Barack Obama has been promising a change regarding immigration reform in America. There has been huge controversy over his action towards immigration reform, particularly towards how slowly he has reacted to the issue. Now Obama has ...