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April 15, 2013 5:24 PM Reporting: Gary Nelson MIAMI (CBS4) – Star power and hard facts were wielded in South Florida Monday to slam a controversial immigrant deportation program. Operation “Secure Communities” is supposed to rid cities and towns of violent criminals. Opponents, though, say the government is spending a fortune to round up and deport nickel and dime offenders. …
MIAMI | Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:15pm EDT By David Adams (Reuters) – Federal immigration officials in south Florida are failing to abide by an Obama administration directive to focus deportation efforts on dangerous criminals, according to a report Monday by a Miami-based immigration advocacy group and researchers from a Florida university. A majority of undocumented immigrants detained for deportation …
AIJ WRC Joint Statement: “Building an Immigration System Worthy of American Values” press releases
By Edwidge Danticat, Published: March 14, 2013 Edwidge Danticat is a writer in Miami. Her most recent work is “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work.” The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency released “several hundred” immigrants from detention facilities across the United States late last month in an effort to stay within its budget amid “fiscal uncertainty” related to …
MIAMI — Though fast becoming a national spokesman for immigration reform, when Julián Castro addressed activists, their benefactors and so-called DREAMers here Thursday night, he made a plea to fix a broken system as the mayor of a city where undocumented immigrants exist in the shadows. “Unlike some folks in D.C., I don’t have the luxury of sitting 2,000 miles …
(February 26, 2013, MIAMI, FL) – Over the weekend, just days before the March 1st deadline for the federal budget sequestration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) quietly began releasing detainees from immigration detention facilities across the United States. ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said this is being done “in order to make the best use of our limited detention resources in the …
MIAMI | Sun Feb 24, 2013 By Alphonso Chardy Each year, the Miami-based Americans for Immigrant Justice generally honors immigrants who succeed in winning asylum or a green card against all odds. Things will be a little different this time. The organization will be celebrating bipartisanship at its 17th annual gala on March 7, as Republicans and Democrats begin working …
A pesar de persistir las dudas, muchos abogados e inmigrantes indocumentados acogieron positivamente el borrador bipartidista para una amplia reforma inmigratoria. news videos
Carlos Roa celebrated this summer when the Obama administration announced a new program to defer deportation for young undocumented immigrants. But two months into the program, the 25-year-old activist has yet to apply. Roa, whose parents brought him here from Venezuela when he was two, is facing many of the same worries and complications as thousands of the other young …
Gang violence in Central America has led to a startling increase in the number of children who make the dangerous journey across the Mexican border alone in search of asylum in the United States, according to a report by the Women’s Refugee Commission, a nonprofit that advocates for displaced women and children. The number of unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. …
