U.S. Citizen Who Was Held By ICE For 3 Years Denied Compensation By Appeals Court
Davino Watson told the immigration officers that he was a U.S. citizen. He told jail officials that he was a U.S. citizen. He told a judge. He repeated it again and again. There is no right to a court-appointed attorney in immigration court. Watson, who was 23 and didn’t have a high school diploma when […]
Immigrant Military Recruits Wait in Limbo As Defense Program’s Future Unclear
Min Zhao saw the Army as an exciting opportunity when she decided to change her career and leave marketing in 2016. In March of that year, she signed an enlistment contract as a combat medic and was scheduled to begin basic training six months later. But more than a year since she signed her agreement, […]
Judge blocks deportation of 1,400 Iraqis; latest court to thwart Trump immigration plans
A federal judge late Monday issued an order blocking deportation of some 1,400 Iraqis — many with serious criminal records including murder — ruling that the government sprung a sneak-attack on them, and they must be given a chance to reargue their deportation cases. Judge Mark A. Goldsmith, an Obama appointee to the federal bench, sided […]
James Naismith 1861-1939
The Canadian-born physical education instructor James Naismith made an indelible mark on sports history when he invented the game of basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts, in December 1891. With a soccer ball, two peach baskets, a ladder, and ten written rules, Naismith created the sport within two weeks, after he was asked to come up with […]
DOJ ask Supreme Court for ‘immediate intervention’ on immigration ban, documents show
The Trump administration has told the Supreme Court that a lower court ruling earlier this week altering an executive order on immigration would bring thousands more refugees into the county and requires the justices’ “immediate intervention,” according to filing documents obtained early Saturday by Fox News. In a victory for the administration, the Supreme […]
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‘Invisible’ Crime: Immigrant Scams Are Big Business In South Florida, But Few Crooks Caught
Infamous as the setting for many cases of high-profile financial fraud and chicanery, South Florida is also home to a relatively unknown scam that targets the region’s large immigrant population, bilking many of them for thousands of dollars for “expert” immigration services that are never delivered, a Florida Bulldog investigation has found. The victims […]
Memo to Keys police: Undocumented immigrants are human beings too.
The Honduran immigrant was riding his bicycle to work in Key West when he was struck by a local woman driving a pickup truck. Marcos Antonio Huete, 31, was lying on the sidewalk, injured, when a Monroe County Sheriff’s sergeant arrived on that sunny April 27, when zealotry would change forever the lives of Huete […]
Immigrants Without Criminal Records Arrested By ICE Triples In New England
Immigrants Without Criminal Records Arrested By ICE Triples In New England ICE arrests of non-criminal immigrants living in New England without authorization have more than tripled so far this year. Even before then-President-elect Trump took office, his message on immigration was clear — he planned to deport millions of immigrants living in the country without […]
Here’s where immigrants are moving to in America
The US Census Bureau recently released estimates of how the population changed in each of America’s 3,142 counties and county-equivalents between July 1, 2015 and July 1, 2016. Among those estimates are the major components of population change, including net international migration, or the number of people who moved to a county from another country, minus […]
