Immigration

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Judge won't dismiss suit over US citizen detention

AP News 7 days ago

Judge won't dismiss suit seeking damages over detention of US citizen by immigration officials A federal judge has rejected a government request to dismiss a lawsuit by a U.S. citizen who was locked up for seven months at an immigration center. Army ...

ID lawmaker: Work laws sans E-Verify 'skim milk'

AP News 7 days ago

Idaho lawmaker says any migrant work laws without E-Verify are 'skim milk;' dairies fight push A northern Idaho senator is trying a fourth year to toughen punishments for businesses that employ illegal workers, against opposition from the dairy and construction industries that ...

China sees sexual frustration causing social problems

Reuters US Online Report Oddly Enough 8 days ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - Sexual frustration amongst migrant workers in China's booming southern province of Guangdong is leading to a host of social problems and must be tackled, state media on Saturday cited a local official as saying. Guangdong, China's export powerhouse, is ...

2 charged with Calif. smuggling deaths

AP News 11 days ago

2 charged with causing drowning deaths of 2 illegal immigrants off San Diego Two men have been charged with causing the deaths of two illegal immigrants who drowned when a boat capsized as it tried to reach a San Diego beach. A ...

WHY I CRY FOR THEM

Las Vegas Sun 12 days ago

Journalist who chronicled the story of a family torn apart by immigration law tells a violent final chapter This story appears in the Jan. 21-27 edition of Las Vegas Weekly, a sister publication of the Sun. The Weekly is free at 1,400 ...

German homeschoolers granted political asylum

AP News 14 days ago

German homeschoolers living in East Tenn. granted political asylum to stay in U.S. A German couple who fled to Tennessee so they could homeschool their children was granted political asylum Tuesday by a U.S. immigration judge, according to the legal group that ...

Send California inmates to Mexico, says Schwarzenegger

AFP American Edition 15 days ago

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested California could ease its crowded prison system by sending thousands of undocumented inmates to specially built jails in Mexico. Speaking to reporters at the Sacramento Press Club, Schwarzenegger said California could ease its strained finances by a billion ...

No progress in RI immigrant prison release program

AP News 23 days ago

Program offering RI's illegal immigrant convicts early deportation yet to produce results A federal program allowing illegal immigrant inmates to get out of prison if they agree to be deported hasn't resulted in a single person leaving jail early in Rhode Island. ...

Thousands protest sheriff's immigration efforts

AP News 23 days ago

Thousands march to protest Ariz. sheriff's immigration efforts; 5 arrested after disturbance Thousands of immigrant rights advocates marched in front of a county jail in Phoenix Saturday in a protest that was aimed at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration efforts and ...

1 person dies in San Diego boat mishap

AP News 24 days ago

1 dead, 5 injured when boat filled with suspected illegal immigrants overturns in San Diego One person died and five others were injured Saturday when a small boat packed with suspected illegal immigrants overturned off the San Diego coast, authorities said. As ...

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