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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Prince William County is moving to enact what legal specialists say are some of the toughest measures in the nation targeting illegal immigrants, including a provision that would direct police to check the residency status of anyone detained for breaking the law -- whether shoplifting, speeding or...
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With the immigration debate focused on 10 million to 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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Bridges to Mexico in this traffic-choked city began testing a new immigration security program Monday that requires some U.S. visitors to be fingerprinted and photographed as they cross the border.
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A sweeping immigration law overhaul   that would toughen border security and give millions of illegal   immigrants a chance to earn U.S. citizenship headed for Senate   passage on Thursday and backers prepared for a bruising battle   with the House of Representatives.
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The wacky world of immigration reform is full of half-baked ideas, but none has the taste of having spent less time in the oven than letting local cops enforce federal immigration law.
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A two-year-old program identifies transnational gang members in who have violated immigration law.
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A group of suspected illegal immigrants was being questioned early Tuesday after federal officials forced their single-engine plane to land here.
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The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider whether the government can deport an immigrant who pleaded guilty to auto theft.
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A new citizenship test designed to make applicants think about questions rather than just memorize answers is beginning a trial run.
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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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Court cases that included use of the controversial Low Copy Number DNA testing technique are to be reviewed.
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It has taken us about 20 years of nonenforcement of immigration law -- since the 1986 amnesty -- to get into our current untenable situation. It may take a period of time to correct the problem.
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The measure would have required illegal immigrants to return home before obtaining temporary legal status.
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The number of immigrants detained by the United States has grown from 90,000 to 283,000 over the past five years, and many were improperly barred from making even a single phone call to a lawyer, congressional investigators reported this week.
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The move had been thought to be at odds with Gov. Eliot L. Spitzerâs plan to allow illegal immigrants to apply for driverâs licenses.
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Nearly a year after the city of Hazleton began a high-profile campaign to rid itself of illegal immigrants, opponents of the crackdown are getting their day in court.