News

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 [...]

February 17th, 2009

Supreme Court Denial of Leave on Safe Third Regretted

Canadian Council for Refugees, Amnesty International, Canadian Council of Churches
Media release
For immediate release
5 February 2009
Supreme Court Denial of Leave on Safe Third Regretted
The decision of the Supreme Court of Canada not to grant leave in the case challenging the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement was met with regret today by the Canadian Council for Refugees, [...]

January 2nd, 2009

City of Immigrants Fills Jail Cell With Its Own (NY Times)

By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: December 27, 2008
In Central Falls, R.I., a mostly Latino city, few realized that the  jail held hundreds of people caught in the nation’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
View article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/us/27detain.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

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