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Healthcare reforms continue to exclude immigrants

While we are on the brink of historic change in regards to our nation's haphazard health-care system, it is stunning that even these sweeping reforms will continue policies that exclude legal immigrants.
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175 years of Indian indentured labor in Mauritius

Name: Hurloll. Age: 19. Caste: Hajam. Father's name: Bheenuch. Village: Khudecha. Pargana: Nouranga. Zilla: Sahibganj. Identifying mark: Mark on right leg. In the red ledger stacked neatly in the Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI), Hurloll's details are written in calligraphed hand in black ink. ...
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The crisis of unrepresented individuals in removal proceedings

A noncitizen who is placed in removal proceedings has a right to a lawyer at his or her own expense, but unlike a criminal proceeding, there is no constitutional right to counsel. ...
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Court to decide constitutionality of bad advice

WASHINGTON: Supreme Court justices have questioned whether defendants should expect their lawyers to correctly advise them on all the possible consequences of a guilty plea, including on important issues like deportation. ...
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Feds limit Arizona sheriff's immigration powers

PHOENIX: An Arizona sheriff known for aggressively cracking down on illegal immigration has been stripped of some of his special power to enforce federal immigration law, and he claims the Obama administration is taking away his authority for political reasons. ...
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USCIS says fees may rise

Alejandro Mayorkas, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said recently that the agency has received a significantly lower number of applications lately and that the resulting decline in revenue could lead to higher application fees. ...
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Detained immigrants could be categorized by risk

WASHINGTON: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano promised immigration enforcement would continue even though her agency is considering new ways to house nonviolent immigrants who have not committed crimes. ...
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Halt to govt raids not an option to boost census

WASHINGTON: With the census six months away, the Commerce Department has said it will not try to halt immigration raids as a way to boost participation in hard-to-count communities. ...
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Tenn. baby abduction worries immigrant advocates

NASHVILLE, Tenn.: Tips and evidence were being analyzed that police hope lead to a newborn whose wounded mother said was snatched from their home in a crime that had some worried about the vulnerability of Nashville's immigrant communities. ...
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Definition of 'begin'could affect PERM application

Of the many complicated rules surrounding the Department of Labor's ("DOL") Permanent Electronic Review Management ("PERM") process, one rule, and more fittingly, the DOL's hypertechnical interpretation of that rule, continues to be the basis for many unexpected PERM denials. This rule can be found in 20 C.F.R. §656.40(c). In pertinent part, that regulation states: ...
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