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A comprehensive immigration reform bill might be drafted by the end of this year, but President Obama said in Mexico today that he would not expect anything to pass until 2010, according to The Hill.
Immigration reform has never been at the top of the president’s agenda, although he’s said he supports it, but today he [...]

Afghanistan’s defense minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, can return home from this week’s U.S-Afghan-Pakistani meetings in Washington with full swagger. His longstanding proposal for a joint Afghan-Pakistani border patrol to curb Taliban cross-border movement has finally been endorsed by the once-skeptical Pakistanis. It’s no panacea, but it’s better to have it than not have it. (Thanks [...]

Responding to growing concerns about immigrants displacing U.S. workers, assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today introduced the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act, designed to preserve the controversial H-1B program that allows U.S. companies to hire foreign workers, but to limit its abuse.

Responding to growing alarm about drug-related violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg and Deputy Attorney General David Ogden today will lay out how the administration’s “comprehensive response” to the problem.
Recent congressional hearings have called attention to a growing culture of violence among Mexican drug cartels [...]

A Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing this morning focused on escalating drug-related violence at the U.S.-Mexico border highlighted the key role of the U.S.-supplied weapons to Mexico and the United States’ insatiable demand for drugs.
As Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) noted, “Mexican drug cartels aren’t just a threat in border states. They are now present in at [...]

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Usually when you hear about cross-border attacks here, they are perpetrated by the Taliban. Not so much in recent weeks — this time it’s the U.S. dipping its toes into Pakistan, which Sen. John McCain has said Sen. Barack Obama is naive for proposing.
Last week, the U.S. allegedly went after [...]

The fence under construction along the Arizona-Mexico border aims to keep immigrants out, but it’s also yielding some unintended environmental consequences. At the moment, its being credited with flooding in the area, environmentalists say.