Border war over immigration comes to Midwest
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - A routine city hall appointment threatens to turn Kansas City into a new front in the U.S. debate over illegal immigration, even though the closest Mexico border crossing is hundreds of miles (kilometers) away.
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TORONTO, Sept. 1 -- When the radio crackled with news that two California murder suspects were racing toward the U.S. border in January, Canadian border guards quickly  cleared passenger cars from their posts and then fled.
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A plan to tighten U.S. borders by requiring passports or tamper-resistant identification cards from everyone entering the country by land from Mexico and Canada has been delayed.
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- Mexico lobbied for six years for a comprehensive immigration reform that would allow millions to cross into the United States legally. Instead, they're getting a fence.
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A smuggler of illegal immigrants from Mexico on the ins and outs of crossing the border.
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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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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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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico  - The number of illegal  immigrants detained on the U.S.-Mexico border jumped in late  2004 as the U.S. government tightened security, although some  border agents said it only signaled that more people were  crossing the frontier.
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Voters in the western US state of Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico, approved a disputed measure that has been branded &quot;anti-immigrant&quot; by opponents, officials said.
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The latest fights over immigration have focused on who should get a place in line for a legal life in the United States. But the real agony, says Tien Bui, comes when you finally get in line.
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The selection of Boeing Co. to erect a "virtual fence" along 6,000 miles of U.S. border marks a potential turning point in the government's long quest to stop illegal immigration, but its success hinges on overcoming obstacles that doomed past efforts, funding shortages and other problems with the...
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HAMILTON, Ohio  - Miguel Garcia owns a Mexican grocery and would like to open a bakery too, but the illegal immigrant is waiting to see if the U.S. Congress will pass immigration reform before he invests in a new business.
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Senior Mexican and US offiicials discuss border security and a proposed immigration deal.
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LOS ANGELES -- The Minuteman Project, an anti-illegal-immigrant organization that has monitored the southern border, is embroiled in a nasty legal fight over accusations of financial improprieties that has splintered the group and probably will sideline it during the busiest time of the year for...
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The US and Mexico try to defuse a row about increasing violence near their shared border.
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OTTUMWA, Iowa  - In the snowswept American heartland, discussion of foreign policy often boils down to one word: security.
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These are not the best days in political life, on either side of the border that divides North America. Canadian politics is in an advanced state of drift, the Prime Minister and premiers posturing over competing