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  • A Great Miracle
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    "This is a well-known phenomenon in many countries: the most discriminated class of the ruling nation provides the most radical enemies of national minorities and foreigners in general. Those who are trampled-upon trample those beneath them. After being robbed of their self-esteem, they can regain some self-respect only by belonging to a "master race". Thus the poor whites in the United States. The same in France."
    NORTH AFRICAN immigrants on the periphery of French cities (…)

  • Immigrants often unpaid for Katrina work
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GULFPORT, Miss. — A pattern is emerging as the cleanup of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast morphs into its multibillion-dollar reconstruction: Come payday, untold numbers of Hispanic immigrant laborers are being stiffed. Sometimes, the boss simply vanishes. Other workers wait on promises that soon, someone in a complex hierarchy of contractors will provide the funds to pay them.
    Nonpayment of wages is a violation of federal labor law, but these workers - thousands of them, channeled into teams (…)

  • Amsterdam fire kills 11
    27 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A fire broke out early today in a prison complex for drug smugglers and illegal immigrants at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 15, a police spokesman said.
    The identity of the dead was not immediately known. Officials said a number of detainees escaped during the fire.
    A prisoner told the Dutch television station NOS that guards initially did not take prisoners’ warnings of a fire seriously and told them nothing was wrong.
    "They didn’t open the door. They (…)

  • Urgent Stop Charity Mutebwa’s deportation to Uganda
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "I stopped eating because I was given a removal letter which was to take me back to Uganda it was on 16 August which was stopped by my solicitor. Today I was given another removal letter to remove me on 18 October.
    "I need you to intervene and help me. I have explained to Immigration my whole story - that I have no home, my family has died and no one to help me in Uganda and that I was tortured and raped.
    "I escaped from government detention and I am not safe if I return to Uganda. (…)

  • "This is not ’streamlining’ the appeal system as the government claims. It is subverting and stackin
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Appeals Clauses of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill 2005
    by bellaciao GB
    Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) is anxious to inform affected agencies and individuals about the changes to immigration appeals in the latest immigration legislation, the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill 2005, which is currently being considered by Parliament.
    The government gave no hint of their intention to make the proposed changes. They have not explained the full (…)

  • MIGRANTS: BERTINOTTI, SHELTERS ARE INHUMAN PLACES
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The publication of the ’diary’ of Fabrizio Gatti in L’Espresso magazine, in which, disguised as a migrant, the reporter spent 8 days in a temporary shelter and underwent a number of outrageous abuses, is further proof of our claims that shelters like the one in Lampedusa should be closed," said Refounded Communists leader Fausto Bertinotti.
    "Earlier this year," he added, "our own MEP Giusto Catania reported the abuses which are perpetrated on a daily basis at the temporary shelter in (…)

  • Cuban Terror Case Erodes US Credibility, Critics Say
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON, Sep 28 (IPS) - The decision Tuesday by a U.S. immigration judge in Texas to deny Venezuela’s request to extradite Luis Posada Carriles, whom Caracas has dubbed "the Osama bin Laden of Latin America", was greeted with surprise and disappointment by Latin America activists and even some former U.S. officials.
    Venezuela wants Carriles to stand trial for the October 1976 bombing of a civilian Cubana Airlines flight that killed all 73 people aboard shortly after it took off from (…)

  • Amid Many Fights Over Qualifications, a Bush Nomination Stalls in the Senate "NY Times"
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM and STEPHEN LABATON
    Published: September 24, 2005
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 - Faced with accusations that the Bush administration is stocking the government with unqualified cronies, the Republican chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is holding up the nomination of a lawyer with little background in immigration or customs to head the law enforcement agency in charge of those issues.
    Democrats have seized on the political fury (…)

  • Bush Appointee To Head Immigration Agency Unqualified
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ..."She’s Got A Tremendous Amount Of Experience In Money Laundering... Who The Hell Is Going To Enforce The Immigration Laws?"...
    The Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Spencer S. Hsu | Posted September 20, 2005 07:49 AM
    From washingtonpost.com
    The Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the troubled law enforcement agency that handles those issues, prompting sharp criticism from some employee groups, immigration (…)

  • The AFL-CIO has lost another member, shrinking its numbers even more.
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    UNITE-HERE has left the AFL-CIO, and what I want to know is whether the name of the union is being changed to UNITE-THERE. On Tuesday, the executive board of the 450,000-member union — the product of a merger last year between UNITE (formerly the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) and HERE (the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union) — voted at a meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, to leave the federation. UNITE-HERE joins the (…)