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New Policy Permits Asylum For Battered Women

New Policy Permits Asylum for Battered Women By Julia Preston The New York Times, July 15, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/us/16asylum.html?hp The Obama administration has opened the way for foreign women who are victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to receive … Continue reading

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Backlash Over Barto’s ‘Silent Protest’ Of Anti-Sanctuary Bill

Backlash over Bartos silent protest of anti-sanctuary bill By Linda Bentley The Sonora News (AZ), July 15, 2009 http://www.sonorannews.com/archives/2009/090715/FrntPgBarto.html Phoenix — NumbersUSA sent out a special message to its members in Arizona asking them to 'Blast state reps. that helped … Continue reading

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Napolitano Warns Airport Security Jams Ahead

Napolitano warns airport security jams ahead By Stewart M. Powell The Houston Chronicle, July 15, 2009 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/breaking/6531353.html Washington, DC — Unless Congress drops a requirement by year's end for new super-secure state-issued driver's licenses to be presented at airport checkpoints, … Continue reading

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Judge: Texas City Quelled Latino Voting Power

Judge: Texas city quelled Latino voting power By Anabelle Garay The Associated Press, July 15, 2009 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6531405.html Dallas (AP) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Dallas suburb illegally diminished the voting power of its growing number of Latino … Continue reading

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Immigration Raids And Union Organizing

Immigration Raids and Union Organizing A Case Study of the Smithfield Plant Center For Immigration Studies Contact: Jerry Kammer, (202) 466-8185 gjk@cis.org WASHINGTON (JULY 14, 2009) In January 2007, the Smithfield Plant in Tar Heel, N.C., was raided by Immigration … Continue reading

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3 Lawyers, 2 Interpreters Convicted In Audacious Asylum Scam

3 lawyers, 2 interpreters convicted in audacious asylum scam By Sam Stanton The Sacramento Bee, June 27, 2009 http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1978609.html Prosecutors said it was one of the most audacious immigration scams in the nation, one that resulted in hundreds of foreigners … Continue reading

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New Realities Eroding Border Double Standard

New realities eroding border double standard Security, migrant issues give Northern states 'wake-up call' By Erin Kelly The Arizona Republic (Phoenix), July 6, 2009 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/07/06/20090706immig0706.html Washington, DC — At a recent meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, lawmakers implored Homeland … Continue reading

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Illegal Work Force Can Generate Taxes But Also Has Costs

Illegal work force can generate taxes but also has costs Opponents: Cheap labor is no bargain By Paula J. Owen The Telegram (Worcester, MA), July 5, 2009 http://www.telegram.com/article/20090705/NEWS/907050397/1052 Leominster — It seems incongruous to some that immigrants living illegally in … Continue reading

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Screening For Criminal Illegals Goes Hi-Tech At Victor Valley Jail

Screening for criminal illegals goes hi-tech at Victor Valley Jail: Deputies have seen a 20 percent increase in identification of illegals By Beatriz E. Valenzuela The Daily Press (Victorville, CA), July 5, 2009 http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/valley-13123-criminals-victor.html Victorville, CA — The Victor Valley … Continue reading

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Officers, Mayor Square Off Over Immigration Policy

Officers, mayor square off over immigration policy Among other requests, Houston police union wants ban against asking about status overturned By James Pinkerton The Houston Chronicle, July 3, 2009 http://apps.grouptivity.com/socialmail/main.do?uId=132717&tId=135419&pk=20218964947&acn=zj!d9&pId=HeOHCWXaPRs=&acn=zj!d9 Houstons largest police union, citing the death of six officers … Continue reading

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Mexicans Hit Hard By U.S. Woes

Mexicans hit hard by US woes By Robin Lustig BBC's The World Tonight, Cancun July 2, 2009 When 21-year-old Rigoberto was working on construction sites in the US, he could earn up to $400 a week. Now that he is … Continue reading

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Mexico Remittances Plunge In Worst Drop On Record

Mexico remittances plunge in worst drop on record By MICHAEL E. MILLER The Associated Press July 1, 2009, 3:12PM MEXICO CITY—Money sent home by Mexicans working abroad fell by 19.9 percent in May, the biggest monthly decline on record as … Continue reading

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Immigrants Seeking Money They Sent Home

Immigrants seeking money they sent home By Samantha Henry The Associated Press, July 1, 2009 http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/01/payback-time/ Fairview, NJ (AP) — For five years, immigrant day laborer Leo Chamale wired money twice a month from New Jersey to his family in … Continue reading

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Citizenship For Sale

Citizenship for Sale By Amy Keller The Florida Trend, July 1, 2009 http://www.floridatrend.com/article.asp?aID=51274&mostread=true In 1990, Congress created whats known as the EB-5 visa program, writing into law the idea that entrepreneurial foreigners could buy permanent residency status a big step … Continue reading

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U.S. Agency Moves Closer To Lifting Ban On Admitting Foreign Travelers With HIV

US Agency Moves Closer to Lifting Ban on Admitting Foreign Travelers with HIV By Howard Lesser The Voice Of America News, July 1, 2009 http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-07-01-voa2.cfm Washington, DC — The US congressional reauthorization of PEPFAR, the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS … Continue reading

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Council Votes For Two Muslim School Holidays

Council Votes for Two Muslim School Holidays By Kirk Semple The New York Times, June 30, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/nyregion/01muslim.html?hp Spurred by a broad coalition of religious, labor and immigrant groups, the City Council overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Tuesday to add … Continue reading

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U.S. Immigration Reform To Be Put To Senate

US immigration reform to be put to Senate By Mark Hennessy The Irish Times (Dublin), June 30, 2009 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0630/breaking40.htm Major immigration reform in the United States will be put to the US Senate before the summer, a leading US Congresswoman … Continue reading

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Probe Fingers 1800 American Apparel Workers

Probe fingers 1,800 American Apparel workers By Alexandria Sage Reuters, June 30, 2009 http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSN3047258520090630 San Francisco (Reuters) — A U.S. federal probe has found that about a third of American Apparel's (APP.A) factory workers in the Los Angeles area had … Continue reading

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An Academic’s Labor Helps Fight H-1B Visas

An Academic's Labor Helps Fight H-1B Visas Norm Matloff, a computer science professor with a Chinese-born wife, says the U.S. skilled-immigrant visa system exploits workers everywhere By Moira Herbst Business Week, June 28, 2009 http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jun2009/db20090626_585028.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+ stories Not many computer science … Continue reading

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Texas Legislators Join Obama In Immigration Talks

Texas legislators join Obama in immigration talks By Todd J. Gillman The Dallas Morning News, June 28, 2009 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-texwatch_28nat.ART.State.Edition2.4c492f7.html Washington, DC — President Barack Obama has hosted high-level brainstorming sessions on health care, fiscal policy and government transparency in his … Continue reading

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