Immigrant

Letter From the Border: New Crisis is the Old Crisis. Talking to Deported Immigrants Through the Fence at the US/Mexico Border. Photos by Julian Lucas The recent influx of children and adults arriving at the US border has thrust immigration onto center stage yet again.

Burke to visit Manus Island in wake of abuse claims. Immigration Minister Tony Burke is planning to visit Manus Island this week amid explosive claims about safety and questions over the speed at which existing facilities can be expanded to accommodate the government's PNG plan for asylum seekers.

A whistleblower, former G4S guard Rod St George, has claimed that dpartment of Immigration staff turned a blind eye to a series of rapes and assaults at the Manus detention centre. Hate on the Streets. Thank Sergio Romo for his T-Shirt. Maria Hinojosa Questions Diversity of Media Outlets That Use 'Illegal Immigrant' Private Prisons Spend $45 Million on Lobbying, Rake in $5.1 Billion for Immigrant Detention Alone. Immigrant Detention Centers In Illinois Cited In New Report For Human Rights Violations. A report released Monday by two Chicago-based human rights groups calls for the Obama administration to close three immigrant detention facilities they accuse of having the most egregious violations, two of which are in Illinois.

Titled "Not Too Late For Reform," the report was authored jointly by Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR) and examines Midwestern county jails holding immigrants. Without hope, without reason. Endless detention ... the mother of Atputha, 7, and Abinayan Rahavan, 4, is considered a security risk by ASIO. 'I live like a dead man walking,'' says Suvenran Kathirdamathambi, or ''Sutha'', 32. ''This is supposed to be the golden period in anyone's life - your 20s and 30s.

But I can't even say when the day starts.'' Sutha is married, but his wife lives alone in Sri Lanka, unable to tell anyone she has a husband who has spent 30 months locked up in Australia. Joins Advocacy Organizations in Criticizing Secure Communities. Today, EFF joined the Rights Working Group and 65 advocacy organizations in sending letters opposing the Secure Communities Program in preparation for the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement hearing on the issue scheduled for November 30.

Under Secure Communities, local law enforcement agencies have lost control over the data they collect for purely local purposes. They are required to submit fingerprints and detailed information on all individuals they arrest to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which then sends a copy of the data to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Feds Attempt to Split Apart Family of Albanian Refugee Who Served As Government Witness. By Mariano Cardoso: Imagine giving your life to protect your family and the country you love, only to be betrayed by your country, which is trying its level best to split your family apart.

That’s what happened to one Albanian refugee. Federal court judges gravely mishandled the asylum case for Edmond Demiraj, who is currently living lawfully here in Texas. But all is not well. His wife and eldest son face imminent deportation. About a decade ago, a federal prosecutor in Texas asked Edmond Demiraj to testify against an Albanian mobster. Mr. Secure Communities, illegal immigration, deportation: Federal deportation program sweeps up noncriminals and low-level offenders - latimes.com. Reporting from San Francisco and Los Angeles — More than once, Norma recalls, she yearned to dial 911 when her partner hit her.

But the undocumented mother of a U.S. -born toddler was too fearful of police and too broken of spirit to do so. In October, she finally worked up the courage to call police — and paid a steep price. Officers who responded found her sobbing, with a swollen lower lip. But a red mark on her alleged abuser's cheek prompted police to book them both into the San Francisco County Jail while investigators sorted out the details. With that, Norma was swept into the wide net of Secure Communities, a federal program launched in 2008 with the stated goal of identifying and deporting more illegal immigrants "convicted of serious crimes. " But Norma was never convicted of a crime. Deportation of Illegal Immigrants Under Review.

[UPDATED with Sad Case Against Deportee:] Isaura Garcia, Battered Woman Facing Deportation, Embodies Problems with ICE Program. ​UPDATE, MAY 13, 5:26 P.M.: The U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has informed the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) that it is dropping deportation proceedings against Isaura Garcia. Meanwhile, Joseph Huprich, the woman's pro bono attorney, says Garcia has received police approval for a U visa reserved for immigrant crime victims, which will next be presented to federal immigration officials.Despite the victories in this case, CHIRLA and the ACLU are still calling on President Barack Obama to suspend the Secure Communities program. Executive Director Hector Villagra of the ACLU of Southern California issued the following statement: Drunken driving, traffic crime deportations way up. Mexicans seeking asylum: A facet of U.S.-Mexican political entanglements. The Applied Research Center - Shattered Families. Minuteman Vigilante's Arizona Murder Trial: Brisenia Flores' Mother Testifies. Canadian Secret Trial: Man May Face Deportation and Torture.