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The US House Judiciary Committee approved a complex bill aimed at preventing illegal immigration in a split party 23-15 vote Thursday, allowing a full House vote on the legislation next week. The bill [text; committee press release,...

President George W. Bush Monday called for more stringent Mexican border controls and rejected the idea that his immigration proposals would allow amnesty for illegal immigrants, while at the same time vowing to keep the US "a welcoming...

The US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicated Friday that all 125 workers arrested at a Wal-Mart distribution center construction site in Pennsylvania Thursday will be deported. Some of the workers, mostly from...

Federal immigration officials Thursday raided a Wal-Mart distribution center construction site in Pennsylvania and arrested over 120 workers for immigration violations. Agents from the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Senior government ministers from South Africa and Zimbabwe met Thursday to sign an official agreement strengthening ties between the nations' intelligence, defense, and police services. The agreement creates a joint commission...

The French Cabinet Monday approved an extension to emergency powers authorized earlier this month in order to help quell riots that started on October 27. Parliament is expected to approve the...

Despite curfews and added security measures French youths continued to riot in the streets Saturday night. Central Paris was calm, but for the first time since rioting by disaffected Arab and African immigrant youth began 17 nights...

The Federal Court of Canada has announced that it will hear the asylum appeal of US deserter Jeremy Hinzman . In January 2004, days before his scheduled deployment to Iraq, Hinzman deserted the US army and...

French immigrant communities and rights groups are criticizing the French government's decision to impose emergency laws in efforts to restore order after two weeks of rioting. The 1955 state of emergency law was...

JURIST Guest Columnist Nora Demleitner, former law clerk to Judge Samuel Alito and currently professor of law at Hofstra University School of Law, says that Judge Alito's judicial philosophy is driven by adherence to text, record, and precedent rather than...