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Senate Democrats Thursday blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are U.S. citizens.
The Netherlands Antilles has launched an amnesty program that will provide residence and working papers for thousands of illegal immigrants.
A Halloween costume that depicts a space creature in orange prison garb emblazoned with the words "illegal alien" is reigniting debate over a long-used term based on the U.S. government's designation of all foreigners as aliens.
A human rights group on Monday accused Italy of forcibly returning would-be migrants to Libya, failing to screen them for possible asylum requests and exposing them to abuse in the North African country.
Before 1965, Leticia Hermosa had little chance of crossing the Pacific to the U.S. from the Philippines. Hermosa, a nurse, and others like her just couldn't get through the strict U.S. immigration quota system, which favored Western Europeans and essentially excluded those from Asia and Latin America.
The U.N. refugee agency says it is "alarmed" at the conditions at a Greek detention center where hundreds of illegal immigrants are being held, including scores of children.
A man arrested in Arizona while driving a refrigerated truck carrying nearly 100 illegal immigrants has been indicted on federal smuggling charges.
A fan-shaped baptismal font lies beneath a prominent chandelier, the centerpiece to a new worship center where priests hope to further expand one of the nation's largest Korean Catholic congregations.
A planned overhaul of the immigration detention system might result in fewer concrete cells and lower fences — but it won't mean more releases, even with electronic ankle monitors, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton said Wednesday.
A group of detainees at a Louisiana immigration detention center have begun three-day hunger strikes to protest poor conditions there, immigrant advocates said.
Arizona authorities stopped a refrigerated truck hauling fruit and found almost 100 illegal immigrants — some as young as 9 — crammed inside the trailer in near-freezing temperatures, officials said Thursday.
Massachusetts is wrestling with the first major cut to its landmark health care law after lawmakers eliminated subsidized insurance to thousands of legal immigrants — and now are weighing whether to partially restore it.
Undocumented immigrants whose relatives were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks would be eligible to become legal permanent residents of the U.S. under a measure approved by a House subcommittee.
For five years, immigrant day laborer Leo Chamale wired money twice a month from New Jersey to his family in Guatemala. Recently, he stepped up to the money transfer window for a different purpose — to ask that his family send some of his savings back to him.
NORTH LAKELAND, Fla. - One person was killed and 18 others were injured by a lightning strike at a church function in North Lakeland, Fla., on Saturday.
In a June 4 story about Amnesty International touring the Port Isabel Detention Center, The Associated Press erroneously reported that it was the largest such facility in the country. The largest is the Willacy Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas, according to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
Federal agents violated the constitutional rights of four illegal immigrants in raids that critics say were retaliation for a New Haven program that provided ID cards to foreigners in the country illegally, a federal judge has ruled.
A team from Amnesty International visited the nation's largest immigrant detention center and reported that detainees there face numerous obstacles to arguing against deportation.
Oakland is set to become the third U.S. city to issue identification cards to all its residents, including illegal immigrants.
Far-right protesters tried to storm an old courthouse in central Athens Saturday where hundreds of illegal immigrants have lived for months amid piles of fetid rubbish and human waste without electricity, running water or sanitation.
Wading into the politically charged immigration debate, a group of colleges and universities is urging Congress to give illegal immigrants tuition aid and a path to citizenship in light of efforts in several states to block them.
The IRS allowed foreign workers — many of them in the U.S. illegally — to improperly claim nearly $7 billion in child tax credits from 2004 to 2007, a government investigator said Thursday.
Among the thousands of people hard-hit by Italy's earthquake last week are a large number of immigrants who have seen the lives they built for themselves in a new land destroyed in an instant.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is appealing a ruling that blocks the enforcement of new rules preventing some immigrants from getting drivers' licenses and identification cards.
In an all-American city that has seen better days, they are true strangers from lands as far apart as Laos, Mexico, Somalia and the former Soviet republics.
Work site arrests of illegals fall dramaticallyArrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday.
Police on the trail of attackers shown in YouTube video | StarTribune.comThe "disturbing" video, posted Monday but since removed, features young men assaulting pedestrians, bicyclists and others.
Denmark to pay immigrants £12,000 to go home if they 'can't or won't' assimilate Denmark is boosting cash incentives to entice immigrants to return to their homelands if they 'can't or won't' assimilate into society. The offer now on the table is close to £12,000 for every person who takes up the offer to leave.
Irish government to pay immigrants to go homeIreland is offering money to immigrants to leave the recession-crippled Republic. The Irish Department of Justice has confirmed that it is opening an EU-funded project to persuade foreign workers and asylum seekers to return to their country of origin.
Tea Party Protesters Attacked by Illegal ImmigrantsWe are beginning to see way too many echoes of the 1930s, as national socialist and Marxian socialist thugs try to drive competing political views off the streets.
Chinese-Americans See Obama's Trip in Unique LightAs President Barack Obama visits China seeking to balance a seesawing relationship, Chinese-Americans embody the challenges facing the giants of East and West.
Earth to Lou: It Could Have Been DifferentTime after time, as the "Lou Dobbs Tonight" show he has hosted on CNN since 2003 grew more rabidly critical of undocumented immigrants, he was warned of the kind of people he was putting on his show. He was told that many of the "facts" he was presenting just weren't so.
Finland: Growing numbers of (muslim) women fear honor violenceNasima Razmyar, who herself came to Finland as a refugee from Afghanistan, has been taking in growing numbers of immigrant women and girls at the Monika House shelter in Helsinki's Sörnäinen district.
The Mobile App That Helps Mexicans Get Across the BorderRicardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a small group of cyber activists and artists engaged in developing the theory and practice of Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD).
Immigrants to get 100,000 kroner incentive to leave DenmarkThe Danish People's Party (DF) has strengthened its immigration stance by securing an agreement to pay 'anti-social' foreigners 100,000 kroner to leave Denmark.
With 10.2% Unemployment, These Groups Are Lobbying For More Foreign Workers (give them a call) | NumbersUSA - For Lower Immigration LevelsEvery month, we get more terrible unemployment news. (Now, we hear the official unemployment rate has hit 10.2%!)
Immigration bill returns to Senate floorThe Senate resurrected the immigration bill that could legalize millions of unlawful immigrants Tuesday, but the delicate compromise faces the same threats that derailed it earlier this month.[!]
When Child Labor Laws Don't Necessarily Help ChildrenWhen ABC broadcast an exposé on child labor in agriculture and specifically focused on the Adkin Blue Ribbon Packing Company, the reaction was both predictable and inevitable.
Topic : Auditor General's report - thestar.comAuditor General Sheila Fraser, an Officer of Parliament, audits federal government departments, agencies and most Crown corporations and makes regular reports to the House of Commons.
Battles over cost, taxes, Medicare loom for House health planThe House Democrats' health care overhaul bill released Thursday creates a government-run insurance program, provides insurance coverage to 96 percent of all Americans and sets the stage for major battles over politically risky cuts to Medicare, new taxes, high spending and the h …
Immigrants sue feds over 2007 raidTen New Haven residents intend to file a lawsuit today against federal immigration agents and officials, accusing them of violating constitutional rights during the raids in New Haven on June 6, 2007.
In defiance of US federal order Arizona sheriff carries out immigrant raidSheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona has publicly defied an order from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) limiting his office's ability to enforce immigration laws the day after it was handed down, leading deputies on an October 17 sweep that resulted …
Study shows most Brazilian immigrants here illegallyStriking a nerve among both advocates and critics, a recently released study based on 2007 data found an estimated 71 percent of the region's adult Brazilian immigrants living here illegally.
Fact-Checking the Conservative Crusade Against the 2010 Census Last week, Senators David Vitter (R-LA) and Bob Bennett (R-UT) drafted a controversial amendment to H.R. 2847, the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies appropriations bill, that would add questions on citizenship and immigration status to the 2010 census.
Harvard Cancels Minuteman Speaking Invite After Student UproarCAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Student protests have prompted a Harvard University group to rescind a speaking invitation to the head of an anti-illegal immigration movement.
'Toughest sheriff' vows face-off with feds over illegalsThe sheriff has announced he will defy the U.S. Department of Homeland Security by doing a street sweep for illegal immigrants one day after the expiration of the agreement that has permitted him to conduct such operations for the past three years.
U.S. Can't Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas DALLAS — Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.
Long Commute: (Illegals stealing education)Once again, we see that the citizens of America are being deceaved and exploited by those that have no right to do so. Our children's educations are being deprived, while our school systems are being overrun by children from illegal immigrants.
Homeless mom travels from Bronx shelter to Brooklyn every day to give her children an educationShe's got no job, no apartment, no husband - but Herminia Rojas is making sure her kids have something: a decent education. The 41-year-old newly homeless mom of five spends three hours a day shuttling her boys between a Bronx shelter and Brooklyn schools.
GOP's Hostility Over Immigration Could Cause a Mass Exodus of Hispanic Voters Who Think: 'Republicans just don't like us'Mel Martinez's recent resignation from the U.S. Senate was for personal and family reasons. But the departure of the Republican Party's most visible Hispanic leader crackles with political symbolism.
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