Posts tagged with "immigration"

U.S ranked low in human rights and safety, new survey shows U.S.A

U.S ranked low in human rights and safety, new survey shows

June 10th, 20190 WELLINGTON, New Zealand— A recent poll conducted by the Wellington-based Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) asked civil society groups, lawyers and journalists from 19 different countries to assess how each country treats its citizens. Annie-Marie Brook, co-founder of HRMI, told Reuters that the United States is performing...
Michigan attorney general joins two federal immigration cases Local

Michigan attorney general joins two federal immigration cases

March 1st, 20190 LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined two federal amicus briefs supporting legal actions against the director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to protect immigrants already in this country and to protect those attempting to enter this country.  Ramos v Nielsen, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth...
Local attorney helps Dearborn Heights man gets citizenship after 50 years of denial Local

Local attorney helps Dearborn Heights man gets citizenship after 50 years of denial

December 8th, 20180 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — For Jim Pawlukiewicz, a Vietnam veteran who has lived in the U.S. since childhood, the immigration and citizenship process was a 50-year nightmare of never-ending bureaucracy, red tape and roadblocks. However, Pawlukiewicz, 72, finally had his breakthrough this May thanks in large part to his simple refusal to...
Trump targets U.S. birthright citizenship as elections loom U.S.A

Trump targets U.S. birthright citizenship as elections loom

November 4th, 20180 WASHINGTON — With congressional elections a week away, President Trump  said on Tuesday that he'll seek to scrap the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of non-citizens and illegal immigrants as he tries again to dramatically reshape immigration policies. Reviving his support for a legally questionable theory, Trump told...
Basic requirement for green card has changed — and it helps legal immigrants COMMUNITY

Basic requirement for green card has changed — and it helps legal immigrants

October 26th, 20182 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has updated a key requirement to obtain a green card effective Nov. 1. The policy changes announced this week will affect the medical and vaccination examination for immigration purposes, which makes sure there are no health issues that would deem the applicant inadmissible to...
Here is why U.S. courts abruptly tossed 9,000 deportation cases U.S.A

Here is why U.S. courts abruptly tossed 9,000 deportation cases

October 22nd, 20180 Liliana Barrios was working in a California bakery in July and facing possible deportation when she got a call from her immigration attorney with some good news. The notice to appear in court that Barrios had received in her deportation case hadn’t specified a time or date for her first hearing, noting that they would be determined...
California school district has contract with firm linked to ICE U.S.A

California school district has contract with firm linked to ICE

October 16th, 20181 A small school district in affluent Marin County in California, serving about 2,000 youngsters in the bucolic West Marin towns of Fairfax and San Anselmo, has contracted with Thomson Reuters — a firm linked to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — to check on the residential status of its students. Ross Valley School...
Trump administration to reconsider asylum for separated immigrant families U.S. Politics

Trump administration to reconsider asylum for separated immigrant families

September 17th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — President  Trump’s administration has agreed to reconsider the asylum claims of some 1,000 immigrant parents and children who were separated at the U.S. border as part of a deal to settle lawsuits over his “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. The settlement, detailed in court documents late on Wednesday,...
U.S. foreign-born population swells to highest in more than a century U.S.A

U.S. foreign-born population swells to highest in more than a century

September 15th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of foreign-born people in the United States grew last year to its highest share in more than a century, according to Census Bureau data published on Thursday. The increase brought the number of foreign-born residents to 44.5 million in 2017, up 1.8 percent from a year earlier. The administration has...
Census citizenship question slammed by scientists, civil rights groups U.S.A

Census citizenship question slammed by scientists, civil rights groups

August 19th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the U.S. government closed a public comment period on Wednesday on its plans for the 2020 Census, scientists, philanthropists and civil rights groups used the occasion to again criticize plans to include a question about U.S. citizenship. The comment period gave any member of the public a chance to comment on...
In court filings, government says most separated families reunited COMMUNITY

In court filings, government says most separated families reunited

July 30th, 20180 U.S. BORDER — Around 1,400 children of some 2,500 separated families at the U.S.-Mexican border have been reunited with them, the U.S. government said in a court filing on Thursday, July 26. Government lawyers said 711 other children were not yet eligible for reunification with their parents in time for Thursday’s deadline, which...
Arab American stars in new CBS prime-time series Art & Culture

Arab American stars in new CBS prime-time series

July 28th, 20180 NEW YORK— An Arab American immigrant will play a leading role in the upcoming CBS series “FBI”, created by Dick Wolf — best known for the “Law and Order” franchise.  Zeeko Zaki, who plays Agent Omar Adom Zidan in the show, emigrated from Egypt at just 1 month old in 1990. He grew up primarily outside of Philadelphia in...
Gubernatorial candidates outline visions for Michigan's comeback Elections

Gubernatorial candidates outline visions for Michigan’s comeback

July 27th, 20180 As Michiganders seek to turn the state around, the governor’s office – plagued with wide-spread distrust – is being eyed as a worthwhile place to start, beginning with the August 7 primary election. Shortcomings like an education system that fails to produce enough skilled workers, non-existent public transportation and cities...
U.S. moving some detained immigrants to sites closer to their children U.S. Politics

U.S. moving some detained immigrants to sites closer to their children

July 8th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. government is moving some immigrant parents to detention sites closer to the young children from whom they were separated while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to meet a court-imposed deadline to reunify families, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar said on Thursday. last month, U.S. Judge...
Once the fireworks of Independence Day fade, how independent are we? Opinions

Once the fireworks of Independence Day fade, how independent are we?

July 6th, 20181 Guest editorial By the Muslim Public Affairs Council   Every July 4th holiday, most Americans spend time with their families, indulge in grilled foods and watch awestruck as dazzling explosions light up the night sky. For many of us, it’s a time to reflect on the complex juxtapositions that define our nation; from the...
Trump administration must turn over information about 2020 census question U.S. Politics

Trump administration must turn over information about 2020 census question

July 4th, 20180 NEW YORK — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered President Trump’s administration to hand information about its plan to ask people filling out the 2020 census form whether they are U.S. citizens over to a group of states and cities suing the administration over the question. At a hearing in Manhattan federal court, U.S. District...
Trump tries to defuse immigrant crisis, but policy hit by confusion U.S. Politics

Trump tries to defuse immigrant crisis, but policy hit by confusion

June 25th, 20180 WASHINGTON/MCALLEN, Texas —On Thursday, President Trump ordered federal agencies to begin reuniting immigrant families recently separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, but his efforts to roll back a policy that drew global condemnation were beset by confusion. Despite Trump’s order, it remained unclear how and when more than 2,300...
Impaired Dearborn woman set to be deported granted temporary stay COMMUNITY

Impaired Dearborn woman set to be deported granted temporary stay

June 5th, 20180 DEARBORN — A Physically and mentally impaired woman who as set to be deported to Lebanon has been granted temporary stay by a federal judge. Muna Kazan, a 57-year-old Dearborn resident, is a Lebanese citizen but has never set foot in the country by was set to be deported Monday night. Kazan's visa has expired but her attorney...
U.S. ends practice that gave some immigrants reprieves from deportation U.S.A

U.S. ends practice that gave some immigrants reprieves from deportation

May 25th, 20180 NEW YORK — On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions barred immigration judges from a once-common practice of shelving deportation cases involving some immigrants with deep ties to the United States. The practice known as administrative closure allowed judges to clear low-priority cases off their dockets, effectively letting some...
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