Calif. Won't Pay Those Sent to Mexico in Depression
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California Gov. Arnold  Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill on Friday that would have allowed  legal residents and U.S. citizens of Mexican descent to file  for damages decades after being deported during in a  Depression-era program to free up jobs.
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As migrant farm laborers avoid Colorado because of tough new immigration laws, the state is offering prisoners to help in the harvest.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  - It was fear of the hefty bill as much as fear of the drill that kept American musician Don Clay away from U.S. dental clinics for 30 years.
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After years of strong increases, the amount of migrant money flowing to Mexico has stagnated.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, under fire from American Indians for telling voters that tribes were "ripping off" the state with their casinos, refused on Friday to back down from the charge.
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Salvadoran immigrant Aresenio Ayala walked past the Western Union outlet on Mount Pleasant Road last week and stopped instead at Mi Pueblo, where he sent money to a relative in San Salvador. He said he decided to give the company a try after he saw a flier in the neighborhood.
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Patricia Lopez&#039;s journey toward a better life in the United States ended with a nighttime robbery, a twisted ankle and a Border Patrol escort to the frontier &amp;#151; where she was dumped at dawn without a peso in her pocket, 1,575 miles from home.
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Three California companies that paid no state income tax last year have been awarded &#36;5 million in tax refunds, angering critics who say the cash-strapped state cannot afford them.
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KOLKATA, India  - An Indian state on Friday rejected a proposal by prostitutes to pay tax to the government in return for stopping police raids on brothels and checks on soliciting clients.
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Despite protests from US Indian tribes in California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he would not apologize for his remarks that the Indians &quot;are ripping us off.
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Fotonovelas &#151; pocket-sized picture books popular in Mexico &#151; have gotten a California makeover that authorities hope persuades immigrant laborers to resist the easy-money temptation of the methamphetamine trade.
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Standing in the baking sun outside the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, hundreds of Mexicans wait anxiously for temporary work visas. But even before they were fingerprinted and interviewed for the permit, many had already paid recruiters thousands of dollars in hopes of easing the way.
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The Angels paid Jose Guillen to stay away Friday, reaching a financial settlement with their suspended outfielder rather than go through a grievance hearing, and Guillen agreed not
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Pemex, Mexicoâs oil monopoly, is struggling, with falling production and reserves and no money to reverse the slide.
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The Texan economy would have been almost $18 billion poorer in the last fiscal year without illegal immigrants who added to state coffers but were a drain on local government, says a report by the state comptroller.
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California lawmakers Thursday sent a bill to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that would bar state agencies from hiring service job contractors unless they certify their work is done within the United States.
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SALT LAKE CITY - A Manti man has a penny for Sanpete County's thoughts. About 8,200 of them, actually.  Grant Petersen withdrew that many copper coins from his bank and delivered them in a bucket to pay an $82 fine he got for driving with a burnt-out headlight.