Bender's Immigration Bulletin
Bender's Immigration Bulletin
Bender's Immigration Bulletin -- Immigration Law News
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05/09/2008 05:01 PM |
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5th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference |
"2008 and Beyond: Immigration Challenges
the New Administration Will Confront;
Georgetown University Law Center, Hart Auditorium, Tuesday, May 20, 2008; This conference offers law and policy analysis and discussion on cutting-edge immigration issues. Featured panelists will include high-ranking government officials, academics, advocates, and immigration experts."
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05/09/2008 05:01 PM |
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Bush Signs CNMI Immigration Bill, Early Reaction Positive |
"United States President George Bush has signed into law Senate Bill 2739, which applies U.S. immigration law to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; and grants the Commonwealth a non-voting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Rep. George Miller, who has sought reform of the Northern Marianasâ labor and immigration laws, said the new law will put an end to the old way of doing business which had led to the exploitation of guest workers and had stifled the local economy. Miller lashed at disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his allies in the former Republican-controlled Congress for blocking reform for over a decade." Pacific Magazine, May 9, 2008.
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05/09/2008 05:01 PM |
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Detention In America |
"An investigation by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein, joined by 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, uncovers the neglectful conditions and inadequate medical treatment in a U.S. government-run prison system that has caused the deaths of some detainees. The results of the months-long investigation will appear Sunday, May 11, in The Washington Post and on Sunday's 60 Minutes, 7 p.m. ET/PT." CBS, May 9, 2008.
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05/09/2008 05:01 PM |
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Immigrant Detainees: A New Profit Center? |
"In this web exclusive video, NOW looks at how the private corrections industry is profiting when immigrants - including children - are held in detention centers awaiting deportation." May 9, 2008.
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05/09/2008 05:01 PM |
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Juan Crow in Georgia |
"[Y]ounger children of the mostly immigrant Latinos in Georgia are learning and internalizing that they are different from white - and black - children not just because they have the wrong skin color but also because many of their parents lack the right papers. They are growing up in a racial and political climate in which Latinos' subordinate status in Georgia and in the Deep South bears more than a passing resemblance to that of African-Americans who were living under Jim Crow. Call it Juan Crow: the matrix of laws, social customs, economic institutions and symbolic systems enabling the physical and psychic isolation needed to control and exploit undocumented immigrants." Roberto Lovato, May 8, 2008.
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