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POLITICO 44: GOP sens. write Napolitano

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Kendra Marr - Nov. 22 (News Report) - Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 11 of his Senate colleagues blasted Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday for supporting the legalization of undocumented immigrants.

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In Manhattan, Immigrant Jail Draws Scrutiny

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nina Bernstein - Nov. 02 (News Report) - To federal officials, the Varick Street Detention Facility is a model. To detainee advocates, it is a case study in denying legal representation.

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Law change needed to cover climate exiles

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Olesya Dmitracova - Oct. 15 (Special Report) - International law is unfit to deal with the millions of people expected to flee their home countries to escape droughts and floods intensified by climate change, a group of lawyers said on Thursday.

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U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Peter S. Goodman - Sep. 27 (News Report) - Despite signs that the economy has resumed growing, unemployed Americans now outnumber openings by six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking open positions in 2000.

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Navarrette: Advice for immigrants

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Jose Mercury News - By By Ruben Navarrette Jr. - Sep. 23 (News) - Some might consider this an impolite way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. But this year, I'm giving Latino immigrants a gift straight from the heart: a lecture.

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Invisible Immigrants, Old and Left With ‘Nobody to Talk To’

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Patricia Leigh Brown - Aug. 31 (News Report) - Older immigrants, cut off from society by language and culture differences, now make up America’s fastest-growing immigrant group.

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Harper blames Canada’s refugee system for Mexican visa uproar

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Post - By Andrew Mayeda - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Seeking to smooth relations with Mexico at a high-profile summit here, Prime Minister Stephen Harper blamed Canada's decision to impose visas on Mexican nationals on Canada's refugee system, and urged Parliament to enact changes to stem the flow of "bogus" claims.

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New Facebook iPhone App ’Pretty Much Done’

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By MG Siegler - Aug. 08 (News Report) - As one of the most popular applications on Apple’s popular iPhone platform, a lot of users are eagerly awaiting the next version of the app. And that wait is almost over.

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U.S. citizens wrongly detained, deported by ICE

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Tyche Hendricks - Jul. 27 (News Report) - The son of a decorated Vietnam veteran, Hector Veloz is a U.S. citizen, but in 2007 immigration officials mistook him for an illegal immigrant and locked him in an Arizona prison for 13 months

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Geraldo Rivera speaks in Houston | Breaking News | Chron.com

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Houston Chronicle - By By SUSAN CARROLL Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle - Jul. 07 (Breaking News) - Geraldo Rivera, center, was a speaker at the Greater Houston Partnership luncheon Tuesday. He said the immigration debate’s tone has created a “slanderous condition” in the U.S.

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Bill gives in-state tuition to foreign professionals, families in Washington on visa

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Lornet Turnbull - Jun. 22 (News Report) - A little-noticed measure passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the governor will extend in-state tuition rates at Washington colleges and universities to some foreign professionals working at companies like Microsoft and Amazon, as well as to their children and spouses.

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Job Fight: Immigrants vs. Locals

Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Miriam Jordan - May. 23 (Special Report) - Slaughterhouse jobs can be difficult and dangerous. Now, with U.S. unemployment at a 25-year high, they are also fiercely coveted. American workers -- who for years have largely avoided fruit-picking, office-cleaning and meat-processing shifts -- are increasingly vying for these jobs with immigrants, creating flashpoints in places like Shelbyville.

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Deportations carried out in the middle of immigration cases

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Anna Gorman - May. 22 (News Report) - Fernando Arteaga appeared last week in Immigration Court as part of a lengthy battle to stay in the United States. But just before the hearing began, immigration officers removed him from the courtroom, arrested him and took him into custody.

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Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home, Forever

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Hiroko Tabuchi - Apr. 23 (Special Report) - The repatriation offer is part of a new drive to encourage Japan’s sizable pool of Latin American factory workers to leave the recession-wracked country.

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Employers apply for fewer skilled guest-worker visas

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Lornet Turnbull - Apr. 13 (News Report) - Conroy is working with members of Congress on legislation that would give U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents first crack at jobs that go to H-1B candidates. "The biggest misconception that the American public has embraced is that employers have to seek local talent first," she said. "We want to create an opportunity so that U.S. workers can at least compete for these jobs."

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In Silicon Valley, Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Limits

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Matt Richtel - Apr. 12 (News Report) - The question comes from one of dozens of engineers around a crowded conference table at Google. They have gathered to discuss how to build easy-to-use maps that could turn hundreds of millions of mobile phones into digital Sherpas — guiding travelers to businesses, restaurants and landmarks. “His plane gets in at 9:30,” the group’s manager responds. Google is based here in Silicon Valley. But Sanjay G. Mavinkurve, one of the key engineers on this project, is not

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A risky new push for immigration legislation

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Peter Wallsten - Mar. 27 (News Report) - With unemployment on the rise, the immigration debate has moved to the back burner as lawmakers fear enacting a law that could be portrayed as beneficial for immigrants at the expense of struggling American workers.

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Amnesty International lambastes U.S. for treatment of immigrant detainees

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Jose Mercury News - By Ken McLaughlin - Mar. 24 (News Report) - "Officials are locking up thousands of human beings without due process and holding them in a system that is impossible to navigate,'' said Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA.

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U.S. hopes killing plants will reduce smuggling

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Houston Chronicle - By Dane Schiller - Mar. 24 (News Report) - If successful, the $2.1 million pilot project could later be duplicated along as many as 130 miles of river in the patrol’s Laredo Sector, as well as other parts of the U.S.-Mexico border. Although Border Patrol and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials say the chemical is safe for animals, detractors say the experiment is reminiscent of the Vietnam War-era Agent Orange chemical program and raises questions about long-term effects.

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Where Education and Assimilation Collide

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ginger Thompson - Mar. 15 (Special Report) - Walking the halls of Cecil D. Hylton High School outside Washington, it is hard to detect any trace of the divisions that once seemed fixtures in American society. Two girls, a Muslim in a headscarf and a strawberry blonde in tight jeans, stroll arm in arm. A Hispanic boy wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt gives a high-five to a black student with glasses and an Afro. The lanky homecoming queen, part Filipino and part Honduran, runs past on her way to band practice. The student body president, a son of Laotian refugees, hangs fliers about a bake sale. But as old divisions vanish, waves of immigration have fueled new ones between those who speak English and those who are learning how.

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Fed indictments tell how H-1B visas were used to undercut wages

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Computerworld - By Patrick Thibodeau - Feb. 16 (News Report) - Federal authorities allege that in some cases, H-1B workers were paid the prevailing wages of low-cost regions and not necessarily the higher salaries paid in the locations where they worked. By doing this, the companies were "displacing qualified American workers and violating prevailing wage laws," said federal authorities in a statement announcing the indictments.

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Report finds fraud in 20% of H-1B applications

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Lornet Turnbull - Feb. 16 (News Report) - In a report released late last year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service cited one especially egregious case in which an employer petitioned for a business-development analyst position but later told investigators the worker would be doing laundry and maintaining washing machines. The report's findings appear to vindicate some critics of the H-1B program, who have said the hiring of foreign professionals hurts U.S. workers.

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Downturn dilemma: Foreign professionals and worker visas

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Lornet Turnbull - Feb. 15 (Special Report) - As joblessness soars, employers are under mounting pressure to save U.S. jobs by laying off foreign professional workers first, a scenario that for many H-1B workers triggers a frantic search for a new employer to sponsor them so they don't have to go back home.

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No longer rounding up just fugitive immigrants

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Anna Gorman - Feb. 05 (News Report) - And year after year, the Department of Homeland Security has received congressional support and funds to expand the program. But new data released Wednesday showed that 73% of the nearly 97,000 people arrested by the fugitive operations teams between 2003 and early 2008 did not have criminal records, according to a report by the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank.

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For an illegal immigrant, getting into UCLA was the easy part

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Jason Song - Feb. 02 (News Report) - De La Cruz faces fairy tale odds. She's an illegal immigrant, so she isn't eligible for most forms of state and federal financial aid. The University of California system, by policy, does not require applicants to disclose their citizenship status: Officials say their goal is to find the best students, not to enforce immigration law. UCLA officials say they aren't even sure how many undocumented students are on their campus. The 18-year-old De La Cruz graduated barely in the top 20% of her San Pedro High class and is competing against students with much higher GPAs and test scores. She probably doesn't have enough money to finish her first year of classes.

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