Apr 12, 2011
Immigration lawyers have been aware for some time that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are allowed into the city-run Detention Center at Magistrate Court to sweep for illegal immigrants. But beyond that small group, most in San Antonio are unaware of the practice.
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Georgia's Senate on Monday approved an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigration amid threats of economic boycotts and petitions from thousands of critics who oppose the legislation. By a vote of 39 to 17, the Senate approved House Bill 87 after nearly three hours of debate and a lengthy...
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Apr 11, 2011
When Arizona lawmakers enacted legislation last year inflating the power of police officers to check immigration status when they make even routine stops, they staked out a reputation for the state as a citadel of intolerance. That was by design, for their explicit purpose was to drive away the...
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The mother from Cameroon came to immigration court bearing scars: She'd been imprisoned back home, she said, beaten with cables, burned with cigarettes and raped repeatedly, contracting HIV. Her husband had died behind bars; her three children she'd left behind were struggling to survive.
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Liberal immigration activists are looking to Utah as a compassionate and logical model for shaping the nation's future policies toward illegal immigrants. Utah leaders — including government, education, business and religious groups — came together last fall to draft a set of principles to guide the immigration debate in...
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Tech students with great software and big dreams won a chance to launch their businesses in New York through a city program to develop the industry here. One group from the Czech Republic developed software that can tell whether a digital photo has been altered, while another from Vancouver,...
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Lakshminarayana Ganti, 33, who has been denied a U.S. visa, checks his visa status online daily. Lakshminarayana Ganti reached out to me in the spring of 2009, long after he had exhausted every other option. Sixteen months earlier he had been a young man on the rise, living in...
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The chairman of an Indiana House committee says he'll decide in the coming days whether the committee will take up a bill aiming for an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigration. The bill approved by the Senate would allow police officers to seek proof of immigration status if they have...
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Apr 8, 2011
It took a budget crisis of unprecedented proportions, but the U.S. Congress is finally starting to ask some tough questions about what it's getting for the billions of dollars that have been spent on securing the borders against illegal entry.
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The mother from Cameroon came to immigration court bearing scars: She'd been imprisoned back home, she said, beaten with cables, burned with cigarettes and raped repeatedly, contracting HIV. Her husband had died behind bars; her three children she'd left behind were struggling to survive.
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