Trial tests law on illegal immigration
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SCRANTON, Pennsylvania  - A Pennsylvania town's anti-illegal-immigration law created a climate of fear in which businesses failed and people moved out, a lawyer argued on Monday as a trial seen as a test of U.S. immigration policy began.
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Latino groups in a US town mount a legal challenge to the local authorities' power to tackle illegal immigration.
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U.S. immigration tried to deport only 12 people on terrorism-related charges from 2004 through 2006, according to a private research study
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It is a Texas showdown, a war of words over illegal immigration at the border.
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Illegal immigrants could fall prey to loan sharks and other unscrupulous lenders if they have to pay $5,000 in fines and thousands more in fees and back taxes as required under the immigration reform measure now before Congress, some advocates are warning.
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A House subcommittee traveling the country for hearings about illegal immigration is asking local law enforcement officials to explain the challenges they face along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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It rules that US can't hold legal residents without charging them with a crime.
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A trial for an alleged Mexican drug kingpin accused of smuggling as much as six tons of cocaine a month into the U.S. has been postponed until later this year.
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A bill that would toughen border   security while giving millions of illegal immigrants a chance   to earn U.S. citizenship cleared key test votes in the U.S.   Senate on Wednesday, setting the stage for passage this week   and a big battle with the House of Representatives.
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As the political rhetoric heats up in the United States over illegal immigration ahead of the November congressional elections, a quieter battle is being waged in courtrooms.
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A federal judge peppered government lawyers Wednesday with pointed questions about the Bush administration&#39;s decision nearly three years ago to hold hundreds of foreigners
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A controversial city ordinance has thrust a small Pennsylvania town into the national debate on illegal immigration
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With the immigration debate focused on the estimated 12 million immigrants who have come to the United States illegally, hundreds of thousands of others who have obeyed the law are disappointed by the legislation now pending in Congress.
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This was ascertained at a Court hearing presided by Magistrate Saviour Demicolli as a number of illegal migrants detained at the Safi Barracks took to the witness stand.
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Three people on trial over the  deadliest U.S. human smuggling disaster, which left 19 dead in  a stifling truck trailer, were part of a wide network that  abused illegal immigrants, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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Business owners could soon face fines and even jail time if they hire illegal immigrants in this Long Island community, the latest in one of many efforts by local governments across the country to crack down on undocumented workers.
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Foreigners entering the United States in three cities were fingerprinted, photographed and subjected to background checks Monday in a test of a program that will eventually