John Walker Lindh’s Legacy: To Join The Fight Is Criminal. The “British accent” of the individual(s) who participated in the tragic beheadings of journalists Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff has focused attention on the phenomenon of citizens from the west joining the fight in Syria and/or Iraq.
(Indeed, this issue will be featured on the United States’ agenda during its Security Council presidency). Letter From the Border: New Crisis is the Old Crisis. Talking to Deported Immigrants Through the Fence at the US/Mexico Border. Photos by Julian Lucas The recent influx of children and adults arriving at the US border has thrust immigration onto center stage yet again.
Talking to Deported Immigrants Through the Fence at the US/Mexico Border. US immigration - Quartz. Nearly 20 years ago, a friend of mine left a farm in West Africa and came to America alone.
Judge Approves Landmark Settlement in Immigration Policy Case. FBI, DHS and ICE Agree to Release Crucial Documents Relating to Controversial Deportation Dragnet Program, Secure Communities press@ccrjustice.org March 15, 2013, New York – Last night, a federal judge approved a settlement between the government and several rights groups in a long-running lawsuit demanding transparency in the controversial Secure Communities (SCOMM) program.
Since its rollout in 2008, SCOMM has spread nationwide, over the protests of local and state leaders, contributing to the Obama administration’s widely criticized, record-setting deportation numbers. The Best In-Depth Reporting on Immigration (#MuckReads) Undocumented immigrant Katherine Taberes, right, watches Obama give a speech on immigration Jan. 29, 2013, at a gathering in New York City.
(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) President Obama reiterated his call for Congress to pass an immigration reform bill in his State of the Union address Tuesday, something both chambers are already working on. 3 Asks for President Obama and the White House. These are three important requests for President Obama as he begins his second term.
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer stationed at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Credit: CBP Photographer Josh Denmark - The United States government is spending more on immigration enforcement each year than it is on all other federal law-enforcement agencies combined, according to the first comprehensive look at how the country’s sprawling immigration complex has grown over the past decade. In US Since Age 10, But No Dream Act for Young Activist Who Helps Others. The New Border: Illegal Immigration’s Shifting Frontier. Central American migrants stand on top of train cars while waiting for the freight train "La Bestia," or the Beast, to travel north through Mexico to the U.S. border in January 2012.
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(AP) — Alexis Molina was just 10 years old when his mother was abruptly cut out of his life and his carefree childhood unraveled overnight. "She went for her papers," he says. "And she never came back. " Alexis' father, Rony Molina, a landscaper, was born in Guatemala but has lived here for 12 years and is an American citizen.
Alexis, now 11, and his 8-year-old brother, Steve, are Americans, too. "How can my country not allow a mother to be with her children, especially when they are so young and they need her," Rony Molina asks, "and especially when they are Americans? " It's a question thousands of other families are wrestling with as a record number of deportations means record numbers of American children being left without a parent — despite President Barack Obama's promise that his administration would focus on removing only criminals. Homeland Security (ICE) deporting War Veterans under new laws. Bennett L. Gershman: How Immigration Courts Contaminate American Justice. Imagine a legal proceeding where the judge is hired by the chief prosecutor, the defendant is charged with an unintelligible offense, he has no lawyer to defend him, the proceedings are conducted in a language he does not understand, and the punishment is banishment from his home, his livelihood, and his family for the rest of his life.
This might be a scene in a courtroom operated by some totalitarian regime, or by a Taliban or Ayatollah fanatic. Actually, the above description represents "justice" in America's immigration courts. It's a bizarre world invisible to most Americans in which government power is used abusively and arbitrarily, constitutional rights are non-existent, lives are destroyed, and there is virtually no chance of correction. Immigration courts determine whether a non-citizen may remain in the United States or be removed. Some 260 judges throughout the U.S. make that decision. Jose Antonio Vargas Removed From Mitt Romney Event. Journalist-turned-activist Jose Antonio Vargas was escorted by police from a Mitt Romney media event on Friday, after he attempted to ask a question about the Republican candidate's views on immigration.
Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize winner and formerly worked for the Washington Post and for The Huffington Post as a senior contributing editor from 2009-10. He "came out" as an undocumented immigrant in a New York Times magazine piece in June, revealing that he arrived in the United States at the age of 12 from the Philippines without knowing he had a fake visa. Alabama Immigration Law: Prove Citizenship or Lose Clean Water Supply.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Secure Communities, illegal immigration, deportation: Federal deportation program sweeps up noncriminals and low-level offenders - latimes.com. ICE reforms Secure Communities program. Federal authorities announced Friday that a key immigration enforcement program that has drawn protests from some state and local governments will offer greater protection to crime victims and witnesses. Through the Secure Communities program, the FBI shares the fingerprint data of people arrested by local and state law enforcement agencies with federal authorities, who can use the information to check for immigration violations. Immigrant organizations have complained that the program does not distinguish enough between minor offenders and serious criminals.
Mexicans seeking asylum: A facet of U.S.-Mexican political entanglements. (Raymundo Aguirre/Borderzine.com) EL PASO — A young policewoman feels trapped living in abysmal despair after fleeing a Mexican town near the border. She attempted to uphold the law in a society fed by narco-violence, but faced insurmountable opposition. Now, her only escape hinges on the uncertainty of the U.S. legal system. HRW Report Finds Detainee Transfers Still Up. Terry Greene Sterling: Arizona Law upheld by Supreme Court. Last week, the United States Supreme Court upheld Arizona’s Employer Sanctions Law, which went into effect in 2008. The law was supported by the Federation for American Immigration Reform and sponsored by its chief Arizona ally, Arizona state senator Russell Pearce.
The legislature passed the law in 2007, and Gov. Fed's immigration enforcement strategies increasingly criminalize immigrants. Drunken driving, traffic crime deportations way up. Deportation of Illegal Immigrants Under Review. [UPDATED with Sad Case Against Deportee:] Isaura Garcia, Battered Woman Facing Deportation, Embodies Problems with ICE Program. UPDATE, MAY 13, 5:26 P.M.: The U.S. Man Without A Country - The Texas Observer. Colbert reads opening statement at House immigration hearing.