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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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deportation stories: 34 news summaries

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 Obama Will 
 Give Aunt Her 
 Money Back 

'Auntie Zeituni' found to be living illegally in US

Nov 1, 08 3:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s campaign will return donations made by his aunt, who was outed yesterday as an illegal resident in the US, the Washington Post reports. Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of the candidate’s late father, lives in a Boston public housing unit and gave $265 to her nephew’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • illegal immigrant • Boston • deportation • campaign contributions • Immigration and Customs Enforcement

 Obama's Aunt Is 
 Living Illegally in US 

Kenyan aunt's application for asylum was rejected in 2004

Nov 1, 08 4:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt has been living illegally in the US since 2004, the AP reports. Zeituni Onyango—affectionately referred to as "Auntie Zeituni" in the candidate's memoir—has been living in a Boston housing estate for the last 4 years, despite having been ordered to leave the US... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • illegal immigrant • Boston • deportation • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • Election 2008 • Zeituni Onyango

 Kenya 
 Deports 
 Author of 
 Obama Nation 

Immigration nabs Jerome Corsi ahead
of book launch

Oct 7, 08 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The author of the bestselling attack on Barack Obama, The Obama Nation, is being deported from Kenya for lacking the right working papers, the AP reports. Police nabbed Jerome Corsi at his hotel ahead of a book launch. One source said he had been held for accusing the prime... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • deportation • detainee • book • Election 2008 • Jerome Corsi • Obama Nation

Lawyers: Dying Immigrant Denied Care in Custody

34-year-old man dies of cancer

Aug 13, 08 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hiu Lui “Jason” Ng was a New York computer engineer trying to get his green card when immigration officials arrested him last year, the New York Times reports. Last week he died of undiagnosed cancer after months of neglect in immigration detention centers. Ng complained of chronic back pain,... More »

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cancer • abuse • deportation • illegal immigration • immigrant • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • detention

Many Hospitals Deport Injured, Ill Immigrants

Guatemalan man at center of benchmark case

Aug 3, 08 10:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - The case of an illegal immigrant from Guatemala has called attention to a little-known, but common, practice at US hospitals: the deportation of immigrants without insurance. Injured in a car accident, the immigrant spent years at a Florida hospital before being repatriated by court order, the New York Times ... More »

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immigration • health care costs • illegal immigrant • Medicaid • deportation • Guatemala

297 Illegal Immigrants Get
Jail in Federal Crackdown

Stiff sentences signal tougher federal line on immigration

May 24, 08 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some 270 illegal immigrants have been sentenced to 5 months in federal prison in a sign that the Bush administration is taking a much harder line on undocumented workers, the New York Times reports. Busted for using fake IDs, the workers were among 389 swept up at a kosher meat-packing... More »

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Iowa • illegal immigrant • deportation • illegal immigration • Immigration and Customs Enforcement

US Drugging Foreigners for Deportation

More than 'last resort,' practice violates international standards

May 14, 08 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US government injects hundreds of illegal immigrants with dangerous psychotropic drugs to keep them sedated while being deported, the Washington Post reports. The so-called "pre-flight cocktail" often leaves detainees so incapacitated they need a wheelchair to get onto the plane. Used far more often than the "last... More »

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antipsychotic drugs • deportation • illegal immigration • immigrant

Mugabe Love Story Sparked Hatred of UK

In the 1960s, he begged London not
to deport his wife

Apr 6, 08 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Robert Mugabe's hatred of the British may have stemmed from an affair of the heart, reports the Independent. Newly released letters from the 1960s show the future tyrant openly begged London not to deport his then-wife, Sally Mugabe, who had fled Rhodesia in the 1960s when he was jailed... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • United Kingdom • letters • deportation • Rhodesia • Sally Hayfron • correspondence • Harold Wilson

Brit Furor Over Asylum for
Gay Iranian

Teen says boyfriend was killed; calls gay treatment 'genocide'

Mar 15, 08 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A gay teenager who fears the death penalty at home in Iran, after his boyfriend was hanged for sodomy, is fighting for the right to stay in  the UK permanently, the Independent reports. Mehdi Kazemi, 19, lost his asylum claim in Britain and is now in a detention center in... More »

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Iran • death penalty • United Kingdom • England • Netherlands • capital punishment • deportation • Jacqui Smith • Britain • Liberal Democrats • teenager • Mehdi Kazemi • gays

US-Viet Pact OKs Forced Deportations

Vietnamese illegals to be repatriated, human rights groups cry foul

Jan 23, 08 3:17 AM CST
(Newser) - The US and Vietnam have signed a pact that could see thousands of Vietnamese living in America forcibly returned to their homeland, reports the Orange Country Register. Under the agreement, undocumented Vietnamese immigrants facing court deportation orders can now be repatriated. Some 8,000 people will be affected and the... More »

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Vietnam • deportation • immigrant

Citing US Troubles, Illegal Immigrants 'Self-Deport'

Immigrants face tougher law enforcement and worsening economy

Dec 25, 07 10:04 PM CST
(Newser) - More illegal immigrants in the US are "self-deporting" back to their home countries in the face of stricter immigration enforcement and a worsening economy, Reuters reports. "The situation has got so tough that there don't seem to be many options left for us," said a Mexican immigrant.... More »

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immigration • illegal immigrant • Mexican border • deportation • US economy • relocation

Ex-PM Battles Expulsion
From Pakistan

Sharif's lawsuit may worsen Musharraf's tenuous position

Sep 11, 07 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ex-Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif is taking Pervez Musharraf to court, hours after Musharraf ordered the deportation of his longtime political rival. In a move that casts further doubt on Musharraf's already shaky authority, Sharif—re-exiled to Saudi Arabia just 4 hours after his plane landed in Pakistan yesterday—filed suit... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • deportation • exile • Nawaz Sharif

Sharif Deported as He Lands in Roiling Pakistan

Arrests, tear gas and blockades greet exiled prime minister's brief return

Sep 10, 07 5:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Within hours of landing back home in Pakistan late last night, exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif  was deported to Saudi Arabia, as his supporters clashed with police near the airport and hundreds were arrested. Thousands more had been arrested in advance of his return. Police escorted Sharif onto a... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • deportation • exile • Nawaz Sharif • Muslim League party • US Supreme Court

Immigrants Allege Border Drugging

Say they were forced to take psychotropic drugs during
deportation proceedings

May 9, 07 12:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two illegal immigrants say they were drugged against their will by U.S. officials trying to deport them, their ACLU lawyer said yesterday. The two men, one Indonesian and one Senegalese, claim to have been injected with pyschotropic drugs during deportation proceedings; neither had been diagnosed with a mental illness... More »

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immigration • illegal immigrant • abuse • deportation • drugging

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