immigration

Two brothers facing deportation to Venezuela have been released from immigrant detention after receiving support from college classmates, community leaders and even U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. Jesus and Guillermo Reyes walked out of a detention center in Broward County on Friday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers went to the Reyes' home Nov. 12 and told the brothers' father that the family, which left Venezuela nine years ago, could no longer stay in the United States.  

Gracelyn Joseph rises before the sun. She leaves her rented room in Windsor at 4 a.m. to meet her carpooling buddies for the one-hour trip to the Kingsville greenhouse where she works. At about 5:30 a.m., her knife slices through the first bunch of mushrooms she'll harvest for the next 10 to 12 hours. It's a meagre living, but Joseph has always made ends meet in spite of crippling expenses.  

Rocknog - it has become a cultural taboo to even TALK about immigration because of that mentality.I'm not anti legal immigration, but I AM anti-illegal immigration. We need to look at our immigration policy, but we are letting MANY people come here through legal channels. You are writing as though there's no legal immigration.  

A TYNESIDE teenager has won his battle to stay in the UK. As reported in the Chronicle, Zaman Mohammadi, 18, who came to the North East two years ago as an asylum seeker, has a home in Wallsend and studies English at Newcastle College. But in August immigration officials told him he must leave the country and return to his native Afghanistan.

His head has been removed from the execution block.   -Ian Ferguson

 

The Indonesian government has apparently ignored Australian suggestions over housing asylum seekers from the Oceanic Viking, as images emerged of women and children locked behind bars. Refugee advocates say Indonesia is holding women and children from the Oceanic Viking behind bars so Australia can't renege on its promise to resettle the group promptly. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said this week the women and children among the 78 Sri Lankans would not be held in prison-like facilities at the Tanjung Pi

Our policy is that the women and children ... shouldn't be behind razor wire and bars   -Simon Crean

 

There are people with jobs in California and across the country that the federal government does not want them to have. A new crackdown on illegal immigrants is targeting the people who employ them. Those companies will have to prove they do not have illegals on the payroll or risk jail.

It's not fair to those being laid off because they're only here with the desire to work and earn a living for their families   -Richard Hobbs

 

A British Columbia cardiologist will finally be able to bring her adopted daughter home after nine weeks of being tied up in bureaucratic red tape in Nepal. Dr. Salima Shariff said a Canadian immigration official in New Delhi, India, has told her immigration officials would be hand-delivering the girl's visa, allowing the family to return to Canada. "The immigration officer in New Delhi just called us," Shariff said in an e-mail to The Vancouver Sun Friday.  

For illegal immigrants, the good times are back. Workplace raids have been halved, and easily fudged paperwork audits are up. Make no mistake, this is a politically driven precursor to amnesty.  

The President of Australia's Refugee Council, John Gibson, says there are no grounds for the government to revisit the previous administration's so-called Pacific solution to processing asylum seekers. High level officials in both Papua New Guinea and Nauru this week indicated preparedness to reopen facilities to help solve the Australian government's ongoing boat people problems. From 2001 until last year, Australia used facilities on PNG's Manus Island and Nauru for offshore detention of asylum seek