Guatemalan migrant fights U.S. for his wages
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STUART, Florida  - For nine years Pedro Zapeta did nothing but work and save.
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As President Bush pressed lawmakers Tuesday to get immigration reform back on track, immigrants across the country were marching, praying, writing lawmakers and hitting the road for Washington in a desperate push to revive the stalled measure.
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Under pressure from both the U.S. and its own citizens, Guatemala is trying to crack down on its corrupt adoption business
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MONTREAL (CP) - A Guatemalan who has lived in Quebec for 16 years went into hiding Friday rather than be deported over alleged war crimes he committed during the Central American country's civil war.
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IMMOKALEE, Florida  - A coalition of migrant farmworkers is taking its fight against wages that leave U.S. tomato pickers in deep poverty to the home of McDonald's Corp., the world's largest restaurant company.
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Migrant workers paid below minimum wage and overcharged for unsanitary accommodation and dangerous transport
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexican migrants launched a two-month relay yesterday from Mexico's capital to New York, calling on lawmakers to grant them the right to cast absentee ballots in Mexico's 2006 presidential elections and organizing undocumented workers.
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MONTERREY, Mexico -- If a quarry needs a migrant worker who can haul 50-pound loads of rock out of a mine, or a big landscaper wants to hire a man who'll mow grass from sunup to sundown for $8 an hour without overstaying his visa, Jeffrey West scrolls through his computer, clicks the mouse and fills...
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A Guatemalan refugee who is the focus of a long-running debate over asylum for battered women will be allowed to remain in the United States, the Homeland Security Department decided Friday.
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A Syrian, who worked as a driver in Iraq,  filed a suit in Paris Tuesday for "maltreatment and torture"  against a U.S. general who commanded a Marine offensive in  Falluja.
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The Mexican cement tycoon overpays in a quest for growth.
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The federal immigration agency is facing a lawsuit for refusing to accept visa applications from highly-skilled immigrants who the government encouraged to apply.
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Colombian police arrested a suspected top Guatemalan drug trafficker who had fled a Mexican prison by bribing guards while he awaited extradition to the United States, authorities said on Thursday.
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A former autoworker from Cleveland who is accused of being a Nazi death camp guard lost another battle Wednesday in his 30-year fight to maintain his U.S. citizenship and residence.
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MONTERREY, Mexico -- If a quarry needs a migrant worker who can haul 50-pound loads of rock out of a mine, or a big landscaper wants to hire a man who'll mow grass from sunup to sundown for $8 an hour without overstaying his visa, Jeffrey West scrolls through his computer, clicks the mouse and fi...
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SAN SALVADOR -- Juan Nerio, a 44-year-old mason's assistant, was sick of living in a mud hut on the side of a volcano. When he heard that an American company was offering six times his $200 monthly wage, he signed up. Six weeks later he found himself holding an AK-47 assault rifle and guarding a US diplomatic complex in Iraq.
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An American scholar said Friday that an official at the U.S. Embassy asked him to keep tabs on Venezuelan and Cuban workers in Bolivia. Washington said that any such request would be an error and against U.S. policy.