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Recent posts
- Legal protection, from Minneapolis to Supreme Court and other immigration articles – June 26, 2017 June 26, 2017
- H-2B visas creating U.S. jobs, and other immigration news – June 23, 2017 June 23, 2017
- Big Brother is watching you, too, and other immigration articles – June 22, 2017 June 22, 2017
- World Refugee Day, protecting children, and other immigration news – June 21, 2017 June 21, 2017
- Lessons from a refugee father and other immigration news – June 20, 2017 June 20, 2017
Category Archives: due process
God help the refugees. God help us all.
Kenya announced last week that it will close all of its refugee camps, forcing more than 600,000 refugees to return to the violence they fled in their home countries of Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and other nearby countries. That’s terrible, but … Continue reading
Posted in Central America, Children, due process, Refugees
Tagged Central America, Children, Dadaab, Kenya, Refugees, Somalia
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Three-year-olds, immigration law, and the presidential candidates
David Wilson and Jane Guskin explain what’s wrong with the mainstream immigration debate, including the Sanders/Clinton pseudo-discussion in their March 9 debate: “The media and the politicians treat the migration either as a natural disaster (‘flooding over the border’) or … Continue reading
Posted in Central America, Children, due process, Refugees
Tagged Central America, deportation, due process, immigration, immigration court, immigration law, Refugees
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FBI blackmailing immigrants
I’ve been skeptical of BuzzFeed in the past, but once in a while they really nail it. Case in point: a January 28 story about the FBI demanding that Muslim immigrants spy on other Muslims as a pre-condition for having … Continue reading
Posted in due process, Uncategorized
Tagged ACLU, Buzzfeed, CARRP, FBI, green card, immigrant, immigration, Muslim, naturalization, permanent resident
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Immigration agents should not be above the law
No warrants, no consent, no lawyers — that’s the story told by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s first-person report on raids targeting Central American mothers and children in January. Here’s part of Ana Silvia’s story:
Posted in Central America, Children, due process, Refugees
Tagged Central America, Children, due process, families, immigration, Refugees, unaccompanied minors
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