Foreign-born widows face deportation
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SAN FRANCISCO &#151; Jacqueline Coats' husband drowned after he dove into a fierce Pacific Ocean riptide to rescue two boys. Now the immigrant from Kenya might be forced to leave the United States because he died before filing her residency application.
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In April of last year, Virginia Feliz, 8, became part of a growing tribe of American children who have lost a parent to deportation.
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FAIRFIELD, Ohio  - When 300 U.S. immigration agents surrounded the chicken processing plant where Danny Alvarez-Reyes works, he did the only thing he could think of: he gave his coat to a scared friend determined to hide in the walk-in freezer.
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If authorities try to send 7-year-old illegal immigrant Ikram Belhout back to Algeria, they&#039;ll have to get through Francine Le Cadre first. The 73-year-old retired social worker is among a swelling corps of volunteers resisting government efforts to step up deportations of immigrant families with children &amp;#151; including by hiding illegals from police if needed.
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The day before President Bush was to campaign in Arizona and New Mexico, the Homeland Security Department announced it would hasten deportations of illegal immigrants who are not Mexican or Canadian citizens.
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In the nine years since they set out from Mexico for a new life in central Iowa, Juan and Patricia Castillo have found jobs, bought a house and watched their children thrive at school. But they now face deportation from federal immigration officials, who say the Castillos entered the country illegally &#151; a charge the family does not deny.
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PAINESVILLE, Ohio  - Maria de la Luz Bocanegra Velasquez was leaving for work when the U.S. immigration agents surrounded her car.
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Illegal immigrants who are victims of violent crimes in the U.S. can now apply for special visas, seven years after Congress offered protection against deportation to those who cooperate with law enforcement agencies.
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An 83-year-old woman who admitted she had served as a guard at a concentration camp during World War II was deported to Germany, federal officials said Tuesday.
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More than two dozen illegal immigrants were picked up for deportation as part of an immigration sweep targeting contractors at a U.S. Navy base in Southern California.
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A dying Ghanaian woman deported from a UK hospital is getting worse from a lack of correct drugs, friends say.
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Ostracized by society, India's widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. They cannot remarry. They are forced to shave their heads and typically wear white. Even their shadows are considered bad luck.
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HALIFAX (CP) - A Serbian woman who sought refuge in a Halifax church basement for 441 days before being forced to leave Canada is concerned about unexpected delays in handling her immigration application.
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An immigration activist who took refuge in a church after the government ordered her deported to Mexico said Saturday she will remain holed up there, even though a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed on her behalf.
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A judge overseeing the trial of a young killer has said the teenager should be deported to his native country.
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The wife of a soldier missing in Iraq no longer faces deportation, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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For two years, American-born Khadijah Heather Jones has fought a custody battle in Oman. Now, with the custody hearing in the Middle Eastern country less than a week away, she faces deportation before she can make her case.