Archive for March, 2009

March 31st, 2009

Foreign Ways and War Scars Test Hospital (NY Times)

By DENISE GRADY
Published: March 29, 2009
Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis offers an extraordinary vantage point on the ways immigrants are testing the medical establishment.
View article at:  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/health/29immig.html

March 16th, 2009

Immigrants Face Lengthy Detention With Few Rights

By MICHELLE ROBERTS
The Associated Press
Published: March 16, 2009
SAN ANTONIO, Texas: America’s detention system for immigrants has mushroomed in the last decade, a costly building boom that was supposed to sweep up criminals and ensure that undocumented immigrants were quickly shown the door.
Instead, an Associated Press computer analysis of every person being held on a recent Sunday [...]

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