Immigration
US Lifts HIV/AIDS Travel Ban
For the last 22 years, foreign citizens living with HIV or AIDS have been forbidden to legally enter the US. As of Monday, that ban will be a thing of the past. On Friday, President Obama announced the decision to overturn the policy he called "rooted in fear rather than fact."
Top Official: Burqa Not Part of France's "National Identity"
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Abused Women May Be Able to Seek Asylum in the US
Women don't have a single nationality or a common religion, but they do make up a defined group regularly subjected to domestic and sexual abuse. Yesterday, the Obama administration paved the way for women who are victims of severe abuse to receive asylum in the United States.
The administration signaled the policy change in its court filing in the case of a Mexican woman who is currently seeking asylum.
Masochist President Obama Prepares to Tackle Immigration
With unemployment on the rise, President Obama is not shying away from America's immigration problem.
Obama will soon get started on a plan that will likely include a pathway to citizenship for the 12 million illegal immigrants living within America's borders. George W.
Homeschooling German Family Seeks Asylum in US
Like many Europeans before them, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike have left the mother country for America under a cloud of religious persecution. That's what the husband and wife are telling US immigration authorities, anyway. The couple says they were persecuted in Germany for their evangelical Christian beliefs and for homeschooling their children.
Should Unemployment Rates Impact Immigration Policy?
As the unemployment rate rises, so does the call for stricter immigration rules. Many Americans resent that they have lost their income while visaed foreigners bring home dollars, or even worse, while corporations illegally hire undocumented workers.
The issue showed up last week on CNN's Cafferty File.
Child Slavery in the US? Wealthy Immigrants Bring "Hired" Help
Well, this is just great. Behind the gated and planned communities of Southern California housewives aren't just employing children as drug dealers, they're smuggling children into the US to work.
As affluent immigrants move here from Africa, where the rich think nothing of employing children for little to no money, many bring children with them to employ for meager wages ($30-per-month meager).
Immigrants the New Slave Labor? FBI Probes Treatment
Mexican guest workers at the center of an FBI investigation say that their boss treated them like animals.
Charles "Bimbo" Relan, the Louisiana farmer who employs the immigrants, allegedly confiscated the workers' passports, kept them working hunched over for hours, fired his shot gun over the workers' heads, killed the stray dog the workers kept as a pet, and sometimes paid them only $2 an hour. He also exposed the immigrants to dangerous pesticides.
Federal Agents Cast Wide Net for Illegal Workers in California
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles just finished three weeks of immigration raids. Those who ignored deportation orders or returned to the US after being deported were the targets of the effort.
At a bakery in Palm Springs, 60 agents arrested or detained 51 workers — coming out to more than one agent per detainee.
How To Become a Legal Immigrant? Here's a Handy Flowchart!
With equal parts sincerity and critique, the Libertarian minds over at Reason magazine have put together a fully-illustrated flow chart addressing what they designate as the argument of illegal immigration opponents, the "get in line" theory. What does that line look like? Follow along and see the steps and relative wait times for each part of the process, whether to become a lawful permanent resident or a full-fledged citizen.
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