Little attention was given to Latin America during the recent US Presidential election but the region is now hoping that the re-elected President Barack Obama will look to the south and tweak the nation’s policies on issues such as the drug war, Cuba and immigration. The Democrat was congratulated for winning another four-year term in […]
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The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy has seen the waiving of certain immigration laws by the Obama administration. While these measures are usually handled by the Department of Homeland Security, the US Citizen and Immigration Services has posted a press release that due to the fact that a person’s ability to acquire certain benefits or maintain
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The US Senate leader vowed yesterday that reforming the immigration system is a top priority following the re-election of President Barack Obama and the Democrats, with the help of strong support from the Hispanic community. “It’s very, very high on my list,” says Nevada’s Senator Harry Reid, the leader of the re-elected Democratic majority in
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The United States’ treatment of immigrants is a violation of both the ethical and the biblical norms required of God by his people according to speakers at a conference on the ethics of immigration, which was held on the 2nd November at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. The conference, “An Ethical Perspective on the
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A conference by Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize winner, is to be hosted by St Thomas University’s School of Law in Miami at noon on the 8th November in the Moot Court Room. Ms Nazario collaborated with the STU Immigration Clinic on a recent case that inspired her to make the generous offer to speak at
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Immigrants who made a valiant – and novel – attempt to enter the United States by trying to drive over the US-Mexico border fence with their motor vehicle via makeshift ramps came a cropper when the car ended up getting stuck on the top of the fence. Two would-be immigrants ended up fleeing back to
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A recent report says that the US federal court, which is in charge of immigration cases and the implementation of immigration laws, is “flawed,” unable to keep up with the amount of pending cases even despite the increases in presiding judges. The system is laden with problems, according to the report, including an inordinately lengthy
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An economist has told the United States government that immigration quotas should be increased to help to assist with the revival of the economy. Charles Kenny, who is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Center for Global Development, says that the United States is in need of more unskilled migrants to work
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California’s Berkeley City Council was recently faced with a proposal for a policy change that would have allowed officials from US immigration to apply different rules to people who are arrested depending on their legal citizenship status. However, the council has now unanimously made the decision that requests by ICE to detain inmates in Berkeley
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A US pilot program that sends illegal immigrants from Mexico to Mexico City rather than dumping them in dangerous border areas is one that is good for both nations. United States immigration officials started deporting a number of illegal immigrants from Mexico to their country’s capital last month in a humanitarian effort to try to
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The United States has no less than 52 million Latino citizens, around 24 million of whom are eligible to vote – and a great many of them are none too thrilled with the immigration policies of either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama. In an election struggle that will conclude on November 6th and which many
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