Saturday, April 28, 2012

APNewsBreak: 7.5 pct of deportations may get held - CBS News


APNewsBreak: 7.5 pct of deportations may get held
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Immigration officials have offered to shelve 7.5 percent of deportation cases under a massive review of the backlogged US system aimed at focusing on deporting more criminals, authorities said Tuesday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has offered to ...

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Child migrant surge to US stresses support system - The Associated Press


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Child migrant surge to US stresses support system
The Associated Press
The average shelter stay is 61 days, and the report found that at least 65 percent of the kids end up with a sponsor in the US The cause of the surge remains a mystery to child migrant advocates and government officials. The kids are coming from the ...

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Illegal Immigration Not an Issue for Legal Immigrants in New York - Voice of America

Illegal Immigration Not an Issue for Legal Immigrants in New York - Voice of America

Illegal Immigration Not an Issue for Legal Immigrants in New York
Voice of America
April 25, 2012 Illegal Immigration Not an Issue for Legal Immigrants in New York Peter Fedynsky | New York Immigration has been a contentious issue in a number of US presidential primaries, especially in states with high concentrations of undocumented ...

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Self-deportation working - Boston Herald

Self-deportation working - Boston Herald

The Guardian

Self-deportation working
Boston Herald
Mitt Romney has been ridiculed for saying that illegal immigrants should “self-deport.” But that seems to be exactly what many of them have been doing. The US government has been sending back more illegals lately, but most of the flow to Mexico has ...
Are illegal immigrants taking Mitt Romney's advice?Los Angeles Times
Mexican 'illegals' leaving US in droves, study findsGlobe and Mail
Mexico-US migration slips after 40 years of growthAngolaPress

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Halstead: Immigration raid at Chinese restaurant - Halstead Gazette

Halstead: Immigration raid at Chinese restaurant - Halstead Gazette

Halstead: Immigration raid at Chinese restaurant
Halstead Gazette
Officers from the local immigration team for Suffolk and North-East Essex visited the restaurant on Wednesday evening. Four of the five people on site had no permission to work. Three were Chinese nationals – men aged 49 and 29 and a 41-year-old woman ...


Rights group protests treatment of migrant domestic workers - The Daily Star

Rights group protests treatment of migrant domestic workers - The Daily Star

Rights group protests treatment of migrant domestic workers
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: The Anti-Racism Movement, a human rights watchdog, carried out a symbolic protest against the country's sponsorship program of migrant domestic workers in front of the Labor Ministry Saturday. Seven people lay on the ground covered with ...
Flashmob supporting Migrant Domestic WorkersDemotix

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ACLU Sues Border Patrol Over Alleged Racial Profiling In Pacific Northwest Border - Huffington Post

ACLU Sues Border Patrol Over Alleged Racial Profiling In Pacific Northwest Border - Huffington Post

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ACLU Sues Border Patrol Over Alleged Racial Profiling In Pacific Northwest Border
Huffington Post
This is unlawful and contrary to American values," said Matt Adams, legal director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, which also joined the lawsuit. "No one in a car should be stopped and interrogated by government agents unless the law ...
ACLU Sues Border PatrolFox News
ACLU sues US Border Patrol, alleging illegal traffic stopsThe Seattle Times
ACLU sues US Border Patrol, alleging illegal traffic stops use.Yakima Herald-Republic

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Pakistan deports bin Laden family to Saudi Arabia - Toronto Star


Toronto Star

Pakistan deports bin Laden family to Saudi Arabia
Toronto Star
Munir Ahmed Associated Press ISLAMABAD—Pakistani authorities deported Osama bin Laden's three widows and his children to Saudi Arabia early Friday, less than a week before the first anniversary of the unilateral American raid that killed the Al Qaeda ...

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ICE to Suspend over 16000 Deportations, Immigration Advocates Underwhelmed - Fox News

ICE to Suspend over 16000 Deportations, Immigration Advocates Underwhelmed - Fox News

Belfast Telegraph

ICE to Suspend over 16000 Deportations, Immigration Advocates Underwhelmed
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Courtesy of ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement has offered to temporarily suspend the deportation cases of roughly 16500 people as part of a review of the immigration system pushed by President Barack Obama's administration which promised to ...
ICE may halt 7.5% of deportationsTriValley Central
After Review, ICE Puts 16K of 300K Deportation Cases on HoldColorLines magazine
US offers to shelve deportationsBelfast Telegraph
WDEF News 12
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The Decision to Deport - New York Times


The Decision to Deport
New York Times
To the Editor: Re “Deporting Parents Hurts Kids,” by Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Carola Suárez-Orozco (Op-Ed, April 21): Immigration and Customs Enforcement touts its record in deporting public safety threats. How, then, to explain its pursuit of someone ...

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Farming 'spread by migrant wave' - BBC News

Farming 'spread by migrant wave' - BBC News

BBC News

Farming 'spread by migrant wave'
BBC News
A new study of DNA from ancient remains provides further evidence that farming was first spread to Europe by migrants. It casts doubt on the alternative theory in which agriculture was adopted by Europe's existing hunter-gatherer populations, ...

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Mexican president discusses immigration in Texas - Fox News

Mexican president discusses immigration in Texas - Fox News

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Mexican president discusses immigration in Texas
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HOUSTON – Mexican President Felipe Calderon said during a speech Wednesday evening that while he respects US laws designed to control illegal immigration, he's against statutes like Arizona's controversial law that he believes unfairly go after ...
Why wave of Mexican immigration stoppedCNN International
Immigration becomes a new storyHeraldNet
Illegal Mexican Immigrant Numbers Down as More Migrate Back to MexicoWKRG-TV

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Immigration eases up on minor traffic cases - Fox News


Immigration eases up on minor traffic cases
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WASHINGTON – Immigration officials say they will no longer immediately detain suspected illegal immigrants who are arrested only on minor traffic violations and have no criminal history. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez ...

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Susana Martinez: New Mexico Governor's Grandfather Was A US Citizen - Huffington Post

Susana Martinez: New Mexico Governor's Grandfather Was A US Citizen - Huffington Post

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Susana Martinez: New Mexico Governor's Grandfather Was A US Citizen
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The questions arose after the former prosecutor advocated early last year the repeal of a 2003 law that allowed foreign nationals without Social Security numbers, including undocumented immigrants, to get driver's licenses. News accounts about a 1930 ...
Immigration: By the time I get to Phoenix, they'll be leavingThe Seattle Times
Porous borders? More like porous policyTiger Newspaper
Solutions for America's Immigration Policy: Danny Quintana's New Book Analyzes ...NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)
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Friday, April 27, 2012

ICE raid snares 16 immigrants here illegally - Houston Chronicle


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ICE raid snares 16 immigrants here illegally
Houston Chronicle
US immigration agents raided the facility on Afton, near Hempstead and Long Point, about 6 am, officials said. The 16 were being held on administrative immigration violations for being in the United States illegally or for violating the terms of their ...
ICE agents raid Houston trash giantKPRC Houston

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Sen. Marco Rubio's grandfather's near deportation from US prompts more media ... - Palm Beach Post

Sen. Marco Rubio's grandfather's near deportation from US prompts more media ... - Palm Beach Post

Palm Beach Post

Sen. Marco Rubio's grandfather's near deportation from US prompts more media ...
Palm Beach Post
Marco Rubio's family history publicly unfolded Wednesday when reporters unearthed the story of his grandfather's flight from Castro's Cuba and his near-deportation from the United States. The reports from the Associated Press, Politico and the ...
Reported Deportation Order For Marco Rubio's Grandfather Sparks New DebateHuffington Post
Rubio's grandfather was ordered deportedOcala
10 fun facts about Marco RubioPolitico
Democratic Underground -York Daily Record
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Immigration officers raid Norbiton Tesco - Your Local Guardian

Immigration officers raid Norbiton Tesco - Your Local Guardian

Immigration officers raid Norbiton Tesco
Your Local Guardian
I did not see them go in. They did not stay too long, about 20 minutes. We suspect they were immigration officers.” Another witness said there were around three vans at the supermarket with some officers going inside and others waiting outside.

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Staying put in Arizona after the immigration law: Not all undocumented ... - Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)


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Staying put in Arizona after the immigration law: Not all undocumented ...
Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
One of her uncles was placed in deportation proceedings after a home raid, and her mother was caught up in a workplace raid at a water park. After SB1070 passed, the family worried that "it was going to be not only the sheriff but the police" trying to ...

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Why is illegal immigration still an issue? - Washington Post (blog)


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Why is illegal immigration still an issue?
Washington Post (blog)
is a challenge to President Obama on immigration policy, but also a challenge to his own party, which has shied away from immigration reform in favor of border security. There's good reason for that. Even as illegal immigration has declined, ...
With GOP's Ear, Rubio Pushes Dream Act ProposalNew York Times
John Boehner Doubts Marco Rubio's DREAM Act Alternative Could Pass The HouseHuffington Post
Boehner: Passing Rubio's DREAM Act would be "difficult at best"CBS News
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Bin Laden's family deported to Saudi Arabia - Reuters

Bin Laden's family deported to Saudi Arabia - Reuters

AsiaOne

Bin Laden's family deported to Saudi Arabia
Reuters
By Asma Alsharif | JEDDAH (Reuters) - Pakistan deported the family of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to Saudi Arabia on Friday, their lawyer and a diplomat said, nearly a year after US special forces killed the world's most wanted man in a ...
Bin Laden family 'deported from Pakistan'New York Daily News
Deported bin Laden widows, daughters leaving for Saudi ArabiaWDIV Detroit
Bin Laden family deported from Pakistan: officialsAsiaOne

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From an Arizona Dreamer: SB 1070 Should Not Be a "Model" For The Nation - Huffington Post

From an Arizona Dreamer: SB 1070 Should Not Be a "Model" For The Nation - Huffington Post

From an Arizona Dreamer: SB 1070 Should Not Be a "Model" For The Nation
Huffington Post
A year later, Sheriff Joe Arpaio conducted a raid at my mother's workplace. I spent two days inside my house on my 21st birthday with our lights off, waiting for the sheriff's truck to leave our home. My mother was really scared and I thought we were ...


Undocumented Immigrant Worker Plan Backed by Kansas Tourism Group - Fox News

Undocumented Immigrant Worker Plan Backed by Kansas Tourism Group - Fox News

Undocumented Immigrant Worker Plan Backed by Kansas Tourism Group
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The trade group for travel and tourism businesses in Kansas threw its support behind an effort to start a state program aimed at placing undocumented immigrants into hard-to-fill jobs like farm work. The Travel Industry Association of Kansas says it ...

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Killer Illegal Alien Going Free? - Fox News


Killer Illegal Alien Going Free?
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By Christine McConville | Thursday, April 26, 2012 An illegal alien accused of running down a disabled Waltham man in a crosswalk the day before Thanksgiving, then fleeing the scene, may be deported to Guatemala a free woman without ever standing trial ...
DA Wants Waltham Illegal Immigrant Held Before She Can Be DeportedPatch.com
Illegal alien accused in death may go free andmdash; without trialBoston Herald

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Scalia Compares Illegal Immigrants To 'Bank Robbers' In Arizona S.B. 1070 ... - TPM


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Scalia Compares Illegal Immigrants To 'Bank Robbers' In Arizona S.B. 1070 ...
TPM
In his fervent defense Wednesday of Arizona's right to crack down on illegal immigration, Justice Antonin Scalia likened immigration enforcement to crackdowns on bank robbers. “What's wrong about the states enforcing federal law?
Scalia Reveals How Little He Knows About Immigration PolicyThe Plank on TNR.com (blog)
High court hears arguments on AZ immigration law89.3 KPCC
Justice Scalia Compares Immigration Enforcement To Crackdown On Bank RobbersMediaite
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Two detained in Aberporth immigration raid - Tivyside Advertiser


Two detained in Aberporth immigration raid
Tivyside Advertiser
The pair were taken to Haverfordwest police station and will be transferred to immigration detention pending their removal from the UK. UK Border Agency inspector Andrew Hogan said: “This successful operation is the latest in a series of raids ...

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