Immigration
How to fix the nation’s broken immigration system?
The Council on Foreign Relations drafts a report with possible solutions.
Inequality
- Worked Over
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- Government Workers
- Workers’ Rights
- Rape on the Night Shift
- Rape in the Fields
- And Justice for Some
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- Immigration
- All Work. No Pay.
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- Kept Out
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- The Disappeared
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Immigration
Immigration Courts Make Do With Limited Resources Despite Mounting Caseloads
Many removal proceedings must go before an immigration judge. This chart shows trends in the number of people that were removed from the U.S. from 2003 to 2008, broken down by ICE Field Office. Click on image to view chart. Produced by Hugo Cabrera While the nation’s understaffed immigration courts strain under a backlog that
Immigration
Army Extends Immigrant Recruiting
The lanky 19-year-old from South Korea has lived in the Southland since he was 9 years old. He is as comfortable speaking English as his native Korean. And he desperately wants to join the Army. Late last week, the teenager walked into a recruiting office in an Eagle Rock mall wearing a pendant shaped like
Immigration
On BBC: U.S. citizens caught in immigration sweeps
CIR reporter Andrew Becker speaks to the BBC World Service’s World Update.
Criminal Justice
Many Immigrants Deported for Nonviolent Crimes
Federal authorities have repeatedly said their priority is to find and remove illegal immigrants with violent criminal histories, but the U.S. government's stepped up enforcement in recent years has led to the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants convicted of nonviolent crimes, according to a new study. Nearly three-quarters of the roughly 897,000 immigrants
Criminal Justice
U.S. Citizens Caught Up in Immigration Sweeps
Frank Ponce de Leon, a native of Mexico who lives in La Puente, Calif., spent almost three months in immigration custody — all the while insisting he was a U.S. citizen. Photo: Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times Rennison Vern Castillo thought his legal troubles were nearly over at the end of a jail stay
Immigration
Report says detention centers are failing immigrants
Detained immigrants lack access to phones, legal counsel, and medical care.
