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Jun 18, 2010	Justice Dept. Will Fight Arizona on Immigration QUOTE: The Obama administration has decided to file a lawsuit to strike down a new Arizona law aimed at deporting illegal immigrants, thrusting itself into the fierce national debate over how the United States should enforce immigration policies.	New York Times
Jun 09, 2010	Views of North Korea Show How a Policy Spread Misery QUOTE: North Koreans are used to struggle and heartbreak. But the Nov. 30 currency devaluation, apparently an attempt to prop up a foundering state-run economy, was for some the worst disaster since a famine that killed hundreds of thousands in the mid-1990s.	New York Times
May 14, 2010	Student’s Arrest Tests Immigration Policy QUOTE: after protests by Latino groups, demonstrations at the Georgia Capitol by her sorority sisters and a letter of support from the university’s president, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency granted a one-year deferral on her deportation so she could finish college. The “deferred action” means she could still be deported, but will be allowed to apply for an extension next year.	New York Times
May 07, 2010	Immigration Status of Army Spouses Often Leads to Snags QUOTE: Immigration lawyers and Department of Homeland Security officials say that many thousands of people in the military have spouses or close relatives who are illegal immigrants. Many of those service members have fought to gain legal status for their family members — only to hit a legal dead end created in 1996, when Congress last made major revisions to the immigration laws.	New York Times
Apr 23, 2010	U.S.’s Toughest Immigration Law Is Signed in Arizona QUOTE: Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the toughest illegal immigration bill in the country into law on Friday, aimed at identifying, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants. The governor’s move unleashed immediate protests and reignited the divisive battle over immigration reform nationally. Even before she signed the bill at a 4:30 p.m. news conference here, President Obama strongly criticized it.	New York Times
Mar 30, 2010	Judge's ruling deals U.S. major setback in H-1B fraud case: Parts of government's case against IT services firm dismissed and electronic evidence suppressed QUOTE: In what may be the largest H-1B fraud case ever brought forward, the government has run into trouble with a judge having dismissed a number of counts and suppressed some of the evidence taken from an IT services firm's computers.	InfoWorld
Nov 15, 2009	Racial rethinking as Obama visits: Increasing diversity, born out of boom, forces Chinese to confront old prejudices QUOTE: As the country gets ready to welcome the first African American U.S. president, whose first official visit here starts Sunday, the Chinese are confronting their attitudes toward race, including some deeply held prejudices about black people.	Washington Post
Oct 06, 2009	Report: U.S. Should Give Preference to Skilled Immigrants Over Relatives QUOTE: The United States should cut back on the admission of immigrants who are extended-family members of U.S. citizens and permanent residents to make room for more skilled workers, a new independent panel recommended Tuesday.	Washington Post
Oct 05, 2009	Prepaid, but Not Prepared for Debit Card Fees (The Card Game) QUOTE: For many people who do not have bank accounts, or cannot get a credit card, the appeal [of a prepaid debit card] is irresistible... But their convenience comes with a catch: fees, often hidden in the fine print.	New York Times
Sep 11, 2009	Joe Wilson aftermath: Illegals get scrutiny in health reform: Current healthcare bills don’t explicitly mention how illegal immigrants would be treated under some important provisions. QUOTE: Republicans in general charge that since none of the [healthcare] bills contain enforcement mechanisms to check that recipients of government subsidies are legal, illegal immigrants would be able to sneak into the system and get US cash [for healthcare subsidies] anyway.	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 07, 2009	U.S. expands H-1B fraud case against IT services firm QUOTE: The U.S. government late last month filed a new, expanded 18-count indictment that now seeks $4.9 million from a New Jersey IT services firm it has accused of fraudulently using H-1B visas.	Computerworld
Sep 05, 2009	Health Care Debate Revives Immigration Battle QUOTE: During the summer recess, members of Congress faced persistent questions from constituents worried that health care changes could leave taxpayers footing medical bills for illegal immigrants.	New York Times
Sep 01, 2009	Why Jews see racism in Israel QUOTE: About two-thirds of Ethiopian Jews receive support from state [Israel] welfare agencies. And just over 10 percent recieve post-high school education compared to 40 percent of Israeli Jews, according to an Ethiopian advocacy group.	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 30, 2009	Invisible Immigrants, Old and Left With ‘Nobody to Talk To’ QUOTE: experts say that America’s ethnic elderly are among the most isolated people in America.	New York Times
Aug 17, 2009	Officials Say Detainee Fatalities Were Missed QUOTE: More than one in 10 deaths in immigration detention in the last six years have been overlooked and were omitted from an official list of detainee fatalities issued to Congress in March, the Obama administration said Monday.	New York Times
Aug 16, 2009	Bad economy sparks more complaints of wage theft QUOTE: Complaints of wage theft have risen as the economy tumbled. Allegations range from underpayment to not getting paid at all.	USA TODAY
Aug 12, 2009	Iraqi Immigrants Face Lonely Struggle in U.S. QUOTE: A report released in June by the International Rescue Committee, a refugee resettlement organization in New York, said that many Iraqi immigrants have been unable to find jobs, are exhausting government and other benefits and are spiraling toward poverty and homelessness.	New York Times
Jul 29, 2009	Immigration detention centers failed to meet standards, report says QUOTE: The federal government routinely failed to follow its own standards regulating immigration detention centers across the country...	Los Angeles Times
Jul 27, 2009	U.S. citizens wrongly detained, deported by ICE QUOTE: [ Hector] Veloz is one of hundreds of U.S. citizens who have landed in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and struggled to prove they don't belong there, according to advocacy groups and legal scholars, who have tracked such cases around the country. Some citizens have been deported.	San Francisco Chronicle
Jul 25, 2009	Debate Intensifies Over Deportations QUOTE: The Obama administration is vastly expanding a federal effort begun under President George W. Bush to identify and deport illegal immigrants held in local jails. But here in the city [Houston, TX] where the effort got a trial start eight months ago, people on each side of the immigration debate have found fault with it.	New York Times
Jul 23, 2009	Chinese-American Children Sent to Live With Kin Abroad Face a Tough Return QUOTE: The phenomenon of American-born children who spend their infancy in China has been known for years to social workers, who say it is widespread and worrying....Their repeatedly disrupted attachments to family members “could potentially add up to a mental health crisis for some immigrant communities,” Dr. Bohr wrote in an article in May in The Infant Mental Health Journal.	New York Times
Jul 21, 2009	Sen. Schumer Proposes System to Verify Workers' Identities QUOTE: Immigration analysts urged Congress on Tuesday to weigh carefully a leading Democratic senator's plan to require all U.S. workers to verify their identity using fingerprints or digital photos...	Washington Post
Jul 21, 2009	Report Says Immigration Agents Broke Laws and Agency Rules in Home Raids QUOTE: Armed federal immigration agents have illegally pushed and shoved their way into homes in New York and New Jersey in hundreds of predawn raids that violated their own agency rules as well as the Constitution, according to a study...	New York Times
Jul 12, 2009	A race between protection and deportation QUOTE: The U-visa program is designed to safeguard undocumented crime victims. But advocates say government approval comes too late for some.	Los Angeles Times
Jul 10, 2009	Immigration Judges Found Under Strain QUOTE: Surging caseloads and a chronic lack of resources to handle them are taking a toll on judges in the nation’s immigration courts...	New York Times
Jul 05, 2009	Piecing Together an Immigrant’s Life the U.S. Refused to See QUOTE: When the 43-year-old man died in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2005, the very fact seemed to fall into a black hole. Although a fellow inmate scrawled a note telling immigrant advocates that the detainee’s symptoms of a heart attack had long gone unheeded, government officials would not even confirm that the dead man had existed.	New York Times
Jun 29, 2009	Paris Police Use Racial Profiling, Study Finds QUOTE: The Paris police stop young Arab and black men for identity checks far more often than young whites, according to a study	New York Times
Jun 25, 2009	For Haitians deported from the US, an unlikely welcome-home committee: Haitian volunteers, including former criminal deportees, help new arrivals in a land many find hard to negotiate. QUOTE: According to a report released last fall by the Haitian human rights organization Ecumenical Center for Human Rights, most criminal deportees left Haiti when they were younger than 8 years old and lived in the US for upward of four decades. Some have only distant family ties and speak little to no Creole.	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 25, 2009	A new (under) class of travellers: Migration and climate change QUOTE: The scale of the likely population shift [due to climate change] raises big questions. Will climate-change migrants be recognised?	Economist
Jun 24, 2009	Will Congress End the Immigration 'Widow Penalty'? QUOTE: While the Veteran Affairs Department deemed the Russian immigrant [Natalia Goukassian] (not yet a legal resident) eligible for surviving-spouse benefits, immigration officials at Homeland Security took a very different view: at Natalia's interview for legal residence the next year, she was told that because she hadn't been married long enough before Tigran [her American husband] died, she would be deported.	Time Magazine
Jun 23, 2009	Illegal immigrants netted by local police could be released: The Obama administration directive comes as the president begins to assert control of the immigration issue. QUOTE: Some undocumented immigrants swept up on minor charges such as fishing without a license won’t face federal detention. Instead, they’ll be released on their own recognizance... could affect at least some of the 66 US law enforcement jurisdictions that are part of a controversial program which, in essence, deputizes local police to act as de facto immigration agents.	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 19, 2009	Iraqi Immigrants: Refugees in a Land of No Opportunity QUOTE: According to assistance agencies, Iraqi refugees across the country — some of whom, like the Jabers, risked violence, kidnapping and death threats for assisting U.S. forces — face the danger of homelessness in their adopted land... The government's refugee assistance system as it exists is in crisis, and is failing to meet its basic mandate to protect and serve refugees...	Time Magazine
Jun 18, 2009	Guatemalan Children In Limbo of Orphanages: Parents Push U.S. Officials to Help QUOTE: Marcela and an estimated 700 other children are languishing in orphanages there [Guatemala] as their [adoption] cases wend through a maze of legal hurdles and bureaucratic snags.	Washington Post
Jun 17, 2009	Immigration Debate Tied to Rise in Hate Crimes QUOTE: U.S. civil rights leaders said yesterday that an increase in hate crimes committed in recent years against Hispanics... "correlates closely" to the nation's increasingly contentious debate over immigration.	Washington Post
Jun 17, 2009	Study Finds Immigration Courtrooms Backlogged QUOTE: Nearly three years after the Justice Department found that the nation’s immigration courts were seriously overburdened... only a few hirings have taken place and the case backlog is at its highest point in a decade...	New York Times
Jun 12, 2009	San Francisco at Crossroads Over Immigration QUOTE: But over the last year... San Francisco has become less like its self-image [a liberal enclave that does not cooperate with immigration authorities] and more like many other cities in the United States: deeply conflicted over how to cope with the fallout of illegal immigration.	New York Times
May 19, 2009	U.S. to Check Immigration Status of People in Local Jails: Obama Administration's Enforcement Push Could Lead to Sharp Increase in Deportation Cases QUOTE: The Obama administration is expanding a program initiated by President George W. Bush aimed at checking the immigration status of virtually every person booked into local jails....By matching inmates' fingerprints to federal immigration databases, authorities hope to pinpoint deportable illegal immigrants before they are released from custody.	Washington Post
Apr 22, 2009	After Losing Freedom, Some Immigrants Face Loss of Custody of Their Children QUOTE: crackdowns against illegal immigrants thrust local courts into transnational custody battles and leave thousands of children in limbo.	New York Times
Mar 29, 2009	Immigration courts face huge backlog QUOTE: The nation's immigration courts are now so clogged that nearly 90,000 people accused of being in the United States illegally waited at least two years for a judge to decide whether they must leave	USA TODAY
Mar 23, 2009	In hard times, illegal immigrants lose healthcare: In California, some counties consider screening them out from nonemergency services. QUOTE: The recession – and a big state deficit ­– is leading some California counties to cut back on nonemergency health services to illegal immigrants. In others, cutbacks in services for the uninsured are hitting illegal immigrants especially hard.	Christian Science Monitor
Mar 10, 2009	Illegal immigrants might get stimulus jobs, experts say QUOTE: Tens of thousands of jobs created by the economic stimulus law could end up filled by illegal immigrants,	USA TODAY
Dec 11, 2008	Cleaning Service Used by Chertoff Calls Immigration Laws Unfair QUOTE: unreasonable to expect businesspeople to distinguish between fake and real driver's licenses and Social Security cards. Immigration laws are unevenly enforced, he added, allowing big companies to stay in business while crushing small-business owners and workers. He said the rules punish "scapegoats" such as him while inviting people at every level -- customers, subcontractors and contractors -- to look the other way while benefiting economically from cheaper labor.	Washington Post
Nov 22, 2008	Managers Indicted in Immigration Case QUOTE: A federal grand jury has issued a 12-count indictment alleging that managers were intricately involved in efforts to employ illegal workers at a kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of one of the nation's largest immigration raids.	Washington Post
Nov 17, 2008	High-Tech Team Helps Cheaters Pass Immigration Test QUOTE: Two British residents were sentenced to jail last week for using an array of computers and wireless gear to feed answers to paying clients taking an immigration test in London, according to the Metropolitan Police.	Wired
Nov 14, 2008	A Killing in a Town Where Latinos Sense Hate QUOTE: teenagers declared that they were going to attack “a Mexican” and headed to the more ethnically diverse village of Patchogue to hunt...Interviews with business owners, students, government officials and immigrants in the area suggest that illegal immigration has been a wellspring for anger and tension in the neighborhood, with day laborers drawing the greatest fire.	New York Times
Nov 08, 2008	Health Care Varies for Uninsured Immigrants QUOTE: the haphazard way in which the American health care system handles cases involving uninsured immigrants who are gravely injured or seriously ill. Whether these patients receive sustained care in this country or are privately deported by a hospital depends on what emergency room they initially visit.	New York Times
Oct 03, 2008	What would Jesus do, about the bailout? QUOTE: In hopes of cutting that off, Boulet has sent out an Action Alert encouraging citizens to contact their members of Congress as soon as possible and to ask them to oppose any mortgage relief for illegal aliens.	Salon
Sep 16, 2008	Code Aims to Aid Nurses: Group Says Foreign Hires Need Protection QUOTE: A coalition of health-care groups this month unveiled a code of ethics it hopes will protect nurses from other countries from abusive employment practices when they take jobs in the United States.	Washington Post
Sep 09, 2008	Midwife Delivery Can Lead to Passport Denial QUOTE: "In a lawsuit, the American Civil Liberties Union alleges that the government is systematically discriminating against U.S.-born citizens on the basis of ethnicity and national origin. Attorneys for the plaintiff assert that such arbitrary bans disproportionately affect rural and poor people who have less access to doctors."	Washington Post
Jul 08, 2008	Advocates Speak Up for Illegal Day Laborers Cheated of Wages QUOTE: Although few immigrant day laborers realize it, they have the same right as any worker to sue employers for unpaid back wages, even if they are here illegally. In recent months, advocacy groups in the Washington region have been helping such workers file administrative claims and lawsuits, and in some cases they have won.	Washington Post

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