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Immigration
Aug 15, 2008
Sweatshop slaves celebrate 13 years of freedom
LOS ANGELES - Maliwan Clinton recalls her first taste of America with a shudder. In this fabled land of the free, she was enslaved behind razor wire and around-the-clock guards in a Southern California sweatshop, where she and more than 70 other Thai laborers were forced to work 18-hour days for what amounted to less than a dollar an hour.
Aug 13, 2008
Navarette: Immigration service: agency in meltdown
A program that would have immigrants turn themselves in to federal officials for deportation is symptomatic of non-existent immigration enforcement .
Aug 08, 2008
A nation of immigrants
- * After 1892, nearly all immigrants came through Ellis Island, which had just opened. Before that, individual states regulated immigration into the United States.
Aug 07, 2008
Culturation preservation at heart of immigration issue
By concentrating on what it means to be American, the presidential have a chance to made significant change on immigration policy.
Aug 06, 2008
Few takers for self-deportation plan
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Wanted: illegal immigrants with clean records who have ignored court orders to leave the country. Immigration officials are standing by to help you leave the country. No jail. No joke.
Illegal immigrants offered "get out of US free" cards
Wanted: Illegal immigrants with clean records who have ignored court orders to leave the country.
Record number apply to become U.S. citizens
Nearly 7,800 naturalization applications were completed in May in New Jersey, the highest number in the state’s history, officials said. The number is more than double that of May 2007.
Sports newspaper brings the world to Arabic speakers
Alreyadi offers reports from North Jersey to North Africa, written in the native language of Arab lands.
Aug 03, 2008
These friends are on a journey to destroy stereotypes
Imam Mohammad Qatanani and Rabbi David Senter can't cite a day or single event when their misgivings and misperceptions about each other gave way to fondness and friendship.
Rabbi fights to block Muslim leader's deportation
Rabbi David Senter's testimony in defense of Imam Mohammad Qatanani riveted the courtroom at the deportation trial of the Muslim spiritual leader.
Jul 31, 2008
Demand rising rapidly for immigration lawyers
The American Immigration Lawyers Association, based in Washington, D.C., has seen its membership skyrocket in the new millennium. Nearly half its 11,000 members joined in just the last five years, according to Jennifer Lynch, AILA's membership director.
Jul 29, 2008
Ukrainians ready to pitch in
North Jersey residents with ties to Ukraine called loved ones and searched for ways to help Monday in the wake of the country's worst flooding in decades.
Jul 28, 2008
Residents proud to be Peruvian
Hundreds of parade-goers lined the streets of Clifton, Passaic and Paterson on Sunday to celebrate Peru's Independence Day.
Menendez to tour Elizabeth immigration detention facility
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is proposing a bill that would mandate better health care for those held in immigration custody.
Jul 09, 2008
Language: new proxy in immigration debate
Mandating English in public school functions does everyone, especially the students, a disservice
Jul 04, 2008
Bushmen denied visas in Virginia
STAUNTON, Va. - Three West African bushmen recruited to build a mud-hut village at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia have been denied visas because officials say the men were poor, didn't speak English and failed to convince them that their visit would be temporary.
Jun 30, 2008
BBQ backs Qatanani
DENVILLE - They came Sunday afternoon for barbecued chicken, views of a serene lake and a chance to relax together after months of anxiety over the fate of Imam Mohammad Qatanani.
Jun 25, 2008
Translator to the rescue
Latino immigrants now have a vital new communications option: a computer program that translates e-mails from Spanish to English and vice versa and automatically translates Web sites into Spanish, free of charge.
Jun 23, 2008
Making many cultures feel at home
Charles Silverstein likens the ethnic mix at Memorial Middle School in West Paterson to one big social studies lesson for his students — and himself.
Making many cultures feel at home
Charles Silverstein likens the ethnic mix at Memorial Middle School in West Paterson to one big social studies lesson for his students — and himself.
Jun 20, 2008
Better medical care for detainees urged
Immigration advocates on Thursday denounced the immigrant detention system as inhumane and expressed support for a proposed bill that aims to improve medical care for detainees.
Better medical care for detainees urged
Immigration advocates denounced the immigrant detention system as inhumane Thursday, and expressed support for a proposed bill that aims to improve medical care for detainees.
Jun 18, 2008
Latin consulates to team up
NEW YORK — The consulates of nine Latin American countries are joining forces in an alliance they hope will strengthen representation and improve services for their immigrant communities in the tri-state area.
Jun 13, 2008
Menendez denounces raids on migrants
Sen. Robert Menendez on Thursday said the top officials responsible for immigration enforcement proved to be "in denial" about constitutional violations by federal agents in a meeting he had with them.
Jun 12, 2008
Groups argue over N.J.'s treatment of immigrants
Clerics, lawyers and activists at a state public hearing Wednesday assailed the growing number of immigration raids in New Jersey and the holding of non-criminal immigrants in county jails and a federal detention center in Elizabeth.
Menendez accuses immigration agents of 'witch hunt'
Audio: Listen to Sen. Menendez deliver his speech
Jun 07, 2008
Muslims say police betrayed mosque
Members of the Islamic Center of Passaic County say they are rethinking how open they will be to working with law enforcement after watching federal prosecutors try to link their spiritual leader with terrorism during deportation hearings.
Deportation case strains Muslims' relations with police
Members of the Islamic Center of Passaic County say they are rethinking how open they will be to working with law enforcement after watching federal prosecutors try to link their spiritual leader with terrorism during deportation hearings.
Jun 05, 2008
Hispanics hit hard by job cuts
The struggling economy is hitting Hispanics especially hard, with 6.5 percent of them unemployed compared with 4.7 percent for all other workers in the first quarter. The rate was even higher - 7.5 percent - for foreign-born Hispanics, mostly because of a slump in the construction industry.
Jun 04, 2008
Immigration raid nets nearly 500 in region
Immigration agents arrested 491 people in May in New Jersey and New York, the largest number taken in a single month in the region since an operation targeting immigration violators began in 2003.
Jun 01, 2008
Letters for Sunday, June 1, 2008
Letters on Memorial Day, hydrogen cars, Fort Lee development, the presidential campaign, The Valley Hospital and a methodone clinic for Lodi.
May 30, 2008
Fast facts
* The Seton Hall lawsuit covers immigration raids conducted in New Jersey from August 2006 to April 2008.
We're legal. What do you want?
A In a lawsuit, a Paterson couple say immigration agents raided their home and pointed a gun at their 9-year-old son
Fast facts
* The Seton Hall lawsuit covers immigration raids conducted in New Jersey from August 2006 to April 2008.
May 28, 2008
Ahmadiyya celebrate milestone of their faith
'day of joy' for Muslim sect |
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