In New York Immigration Court, Asylum Roulette
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New YorkÂs immigration court illustrates the crunch that judges face in big cities where complicated cases like asylum crowd the docket.
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As heated as the debate over the immigration overhaul is on Capitol Hill, the divisions may run even deeper among immigrants themselves.
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It rules that US can't hold legal residents without charging them with a crime.
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A ruling by New York's highest court on the state's death penalty law has complicated the job of prosecutors and left the fate of inmates uncertain.
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Justice commissioner wants a register holding fingerprints and pictures of all visitors in an effort to keep out illegal immigrants
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The move had been thought to be at odds with Gov. Eliot L. Spitzerâs plan to allow illegal immigrants to apply for driverâs licenses.
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A New York couple accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves for more than four years were ordered jailed by a federal judge on Thursday after prosecutors argued they might flee the United States.
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The number of immigrants detained by the United States has grown from 90,000 to 283,000 over the past five years, and many were improperly barred from making even a single phone call to a lawyer, congressional investigators reported this week.
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A smuggler of illegal immigrants from Mexico on the ins and outs of crossing the border.
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BY LAW, hospitals provide free emergency care for illegal immigrants. But the costs are bruising, and pending federal regulations could scare away patients.
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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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The wacky world of immigration reform is full of half-baked ideas, but none has the taste of having spent less time in the oven than letting local cops enforce federal immigration law.
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Three people involved in the nation's deadliest smuggling attempt were part of a scheme that treated immigrants "worse than cattle on the way to the slaughterhouse," a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening statements.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston have made a name for themselves chasing healthcare fraud. There's a new case on their calendar.
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A fugitive Russian attorney has applied for political asylum in the United States after accusing Russia's security service of waging a vendetta against him, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
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Ugandans suspected to be illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom are languishing in the country s various asylum seekers detention centres with some alleging torture and mistreatment by the authorities.
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Authorities threatened a Texas native with deportation after unpaid tickets landed her in jail and officers mistook her for an illegal immigrant with the same name and birthday.