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  • June 2008

    • Elian Case Returns to the Spotlight

      newser  |  Miami Herald  |  Jun 20, 08 10:10 AM CDT

      Elian Case Returns to the Spotlight

      When the battle over whether to send young Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba raged in 2000, Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator nowhere near the fray. But two of the candidate's current advisers played a role, and that connection has some Cuban-Americans ready to protest the senator's speech this weekend in Miami. Elian's great-uncle is leading the charge, the Miami Herald reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Florida  • Cuba  • illegal immigrant  • Elian Gonzalez

    • FBI Swamped With Checking on Immigrants

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 10, 08 11:36 AM CDT

      FBI Swamped With Checking on Immigrants

      The FBI’s system of background checks has forced many legal immigrants to wait years before getting into the US or gaining citizenship, the Justice Department finds. The program, deluged by more names and wider checks after 9/11, has struggled with old technology, poor training, and swamped supervisors, the Los Angeles Times reports. And criminals could be cruising through the system. More »

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      FBI  • immigration  • Department of Justice  • War on Terror  • illegal immigrant  • homeland security  • background check  • Inspector General

  • May 2008

    • 297 Illegal Immigrants Get Jail in Federal Crackdown

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 24, 08 7:08 AM CDT

      297 Illegal Immigrants Get Jail in Federal Crackdown

      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 plant in Iowa in the biggest immigration raid on a workplace in US history. Until now, undocumented workers have usually been detained and deported. More »

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

    • No Rebates for Immigrant Taxpayers—or Yank Spouses

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 12, 08 3:30 AM CDT

      No Rebates for Immigrant Taxpayers&mdash;or Yank Spouses

      Hundreds of thousands of legal, taxpaying immigrants and their Americans spouses are among the unhappy few who won’t be getting a tax rebate check, AP reports. Taxpayers need a Social Security number to qualify—a rule intended to carve out illegal immigrants. Also inadvertently cut from the benefit are legal residents and American citizens—including US soldiers—who filed jointly with a spouse without a Social Security number, which can take years to obtain. More »

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      economy  • illegal immigrant  • Social Security  • economic stimulus package  • tax rebate  • Internal Revenue Service  • green card

    • Illegal Workers Must Rely on Healers, Home Remedies

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 10, 08 12:50 PM CDT

      Illegal Workers Must Rely on Healers, Home Remedies

      Faced with high medical costs and fearing deportation, many illegal immigrants avoid doctors and instead seek their cures among traditional healers, the New York Times reports. With an estimated two-thirds of illegal immigrants uninsured, visits to a doctor are often reserved for emergencies. Instead, the immigrants—most of whom toil in demanding jobs where injuries are common—turn to herbal remedies and incantations, or substitute massages for more substantive care. More »

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      health care  • public health  • illegal immigrant  • alternative treatment  • herbal medicine

  • April 2008
  • March 2008

    • Jailed Woman Left for 4 Days

      newser  |  Arkansas Democrat Gazette  |  Mar 11, 08 8:45 PM CDT

      Jailed Woman Left for 4 Days

      An illegal immigrant was forgotten in a courthouse holding cell in Springdale, Ark. for 4 days without food, water, or a toilet, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. With only sparse furniture and a lightbulb in her cell, Adriana Torres-Flores slept on the floor and drank her own urine to survive. The bailiff who forgot about her until yesterday is now “a broken man,” the county sheriff said. More »

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      prison  • illegal immigrant  • starvation  • courthouse

  • February 2008
  • January 2008

    • Thompson Keeps It Slow and Steady

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jan 19, 08 8:45 AM CST

      Thompson Keeps It Slow and Steady

      Recent poll numbers have shown a glimmer of viability for Fred Thompson's campaign, but Thompson treats the chance of a comeback as no cause to speed up the "gentlemanly canter" of his campaign. The folsky candidate is dishing out strong opinions couched in country wit in the same slow and easy manner his supporters have grown accustomed to, according to a profile in the New York Times . More »

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      election 2008  • Fred Thompson  • South Carolina  • illegal immigrant  • South Carolina primary  • health care reform

  • December 2007

    • Citing US Troubles, Illegal Immigrants 'Self-Deport'

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Dec 25, 07 10:04 PM CST

      Citing US Troubles, Illegal Immigrants 'Self-Deport'

      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. No exact numbers are known, but Reuters cites a spike in immigrants requesting Mexican citizenship for their US-born children and anecdotal reports from elsewhere. More »

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

    • Sex Slaves Win Cash Damages

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Dec 16, 07 12:46 PM CST

      Sex Slaves Win Cash Damages

      In a groundbreaking decision, Britain has awarded four women smuggled from eastern Europe to the UK and subjected by their captors to "forced prostitution, multiple rapes and beatings" more than £140,000. The decision, the first to consider false imprisonment and forced prostitution as categories for awarding damages, will serve as a legal precedent, the Guardian reports. More »

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      China  • Great Britain  • Africa  • prostitution  • illegal immigrant  • organized crime  • human trafficking  • smuggling  • sex slaves

    • US Citizenship Denied, Illegal Brazilians Head Home

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Dec 4, 07 7:58 PM CST

      US Citizenship Denied, Illegal Brazilians Head Home

      Anti-immigrant crackdowns have partly succeeded, the New York Times reports, citing a wave of returning middle-class Brazilian illegals. Faced with no way to renew driver's licenses and no hope of legalization, many are going home, where economic conditions aren’t half bad. “Why should you stay if you have a place like Brazil, where there’s hope?” asked one Brazilian businessman. More »

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      immigration  • Brazil  • US dollar  • illegal immigrant

  • November 2007

    • Texas Cracks Down on Illegals

      newser  |  Houston Chronicle  |  Nov 25, 07 7:05 PM CST

      Texas Cracks Down on Illegals

      In Laredo, Texas, the border patrol is getting serious about illegal immigration. The longstanding “catch-and-release” policy was scrapped this month, in favor of a zero tolerance program that has clogged jails and strained courts. The Houston Chronicle looked in on a federal courthouse recently, as judges tried and sentenced immigrants 20 at a time to harsh jail stints. More »

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      illegal immigrant  • Mexican border  • Border Patrol

    • SF to Issue ID Cards to Illegal Immigrants

      newser  |  San Jose Mercury News  |  Nov 21, 07 1:38 PM CST

      SF to Issue ID Cards to Illegal Immigrants

      San Francisco will issue its own identification cards, the city's Board of Supervisors decided yesterday. San Francisco is host to about 40,000 illegal immigrants, who will be able to use the cards to access city services and open bank accounts, though the details are not entirely worked out. City employees and police may not ask about immigration status. More »

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      immigration  • San Francisco  • illegal immigrant  • gender  • identity card

  • October 2007

    • Hillary Backs Licenses for Immigrants

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Oct 31, 07 10:16 PM CDT

      Hillary Backs Licenses for Immigrants

      Hillary Clinton came out in support of drivers licenses for illegal immigrants today, in an effort to separate herself not so much from her competitors but her own flubbed answer to a question about them at Tuesday night's candidate forum. At the forum she drew gleeful opprobrium from the other candidates for flip-flopping; first she was for then against the hot-button proposal from beleaguered New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • John Edwards  • illegal immigrant  • gaffe

    • Judge Blocks Crackdown on Immigrant Workers

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Oct 11, 07 4:12 AM CDT

      Judge Blocks Crackdown on Immigrant Workers

      In a major blow to the Bush Administration, a federal judge has blocked a controversial program to find illegal immigrants in the workplace by tracking discrepancies in their Social Security data. A US district judge ruled the crackdown by the Department of Homeland Security would "subject employers to greater compliance costs and employees to an increased risk of termination," the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      Department of Homeland Security  • illegal immigrant  • Social Security  • AFL CIO  • Chamber of Commerce

    • Rules Eased for Farm Workers

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Oct 7, 07 6:43 PM CDT

      Rules Eased for Farm Workers

      Faced with the prospect of crops rotting in the fields for want of hands to pick them, the Bush administration is quietly easing immigration regulations on farmworkers, the Los Angeles Times reports. Farmers have been caught between the recent crackdown on illegal aliens crossing the border from Mexico and the notoriously inefficient H-2A program, which lets farmers apply for temporary immigrant workers. More »

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      immigration  • illegal immigrant  • farming  • immigrant

  • August 2007

    • Immigration Raid Targets Ohio Plant

      newser  |  Cincinnati Enquirer  |  Aug 29, 07 8:50 AM CDT

      Immigration Raid Targets Ohio Plant

      Immigration agents raided a poultry-packing plant in Fairfield, Ohio, and arrested some 160 undocumented workers yesterday. The raid was part of a 2-year investigation into Koch Foods, which officials call an "egregious violator" of immigration laws, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. "We’re going to look wherever the evidence takes us," said an immigration and customs enforcement official. More »

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      immigration  • Ohio  • illegal immigrant  • raid  • illegal employment  • Fairfield

    • 3rd Suspect Held in NJ Slayings

      newser  |  Star-Ledger  |  Aug 10, 07 4:23 PM CDT

      3rd Suspect Held in NJ Slayings

      A teen wanted in connection with the slayings of three college students and the attempted murder of a fourth in Newark was taken into custody today, and authorities are seeking two more suspects implicated in the execution-style homicides. Another suspect, Jose Carranza, pleaded not guilty this morning; the third, a 15-year-old boy, is being held pending a detention hearing. More »

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      murder  • crime  • shooting  • New Jersey  • illegal immigrant  • homicide  • Newark  • Jose Carranza

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