Memo sparks deportation row
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Immigration staff have "no interest" in deporting foreign inmates who serve less than a year in jail, a memo says.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw complained to his US counterpart Colin Powell about the deportation from the United States of former pop star Cat Stevens as a possible terrorist risk, a senior State Department official said.
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Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales' confirmation hearing this week may become more contentious because the White House has refused to provide copies of his memos on the questioning of terror suspects.
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Foreign-born New Yorkers who plead guilty to misdemeanors are increasingly being turned over to immigration authorities for deportation.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's political opposition yesterday launched a legal challenge to the deportation of a prominent rival of President General Pervez Musharraf a day earlier, spearheading what was described as a broader campaign to topple the military leader.
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INDIANAPOLIS &#151; Scholars and critics worldwide are demanding that the U.S. government explain why it revoked the work visa of a Muslim scholar hired at the University of Notre Dame, saying the action threatens academic freedoms.
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With the immigration debate focused on the estimated 12 million immigrants who have come to the United States illegally, hundreds of thousands of others who have obeyed the law are disappointed by the legislation now pending in Congress.
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With the immigration debate focused on 10 million to 12 million immigrants who have come to the United States illegally, hundreds of thousands of others who have obeyed the law are disappointed by the legislation now pending in Congress.
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A top House Democrat yesterday criticized the Department of Homeland Security for not working aggressively enough to gather fingerprints of foreigners as they leave the country.
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The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government on Monday over what the rights group said was the wrongful deportation of a developmentally disabled U.S. citizen who is now missing in Mexico.
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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has issued a report that sharply criticizes federal immigration authorities for rounding up asylum-seekers at the border, detaining them for months in prisonlike facilities and quickly dispatching them back to the countries they fled.
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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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Some retired military officers criticize his role in drafting a torture memo, but key Hispanic groups are supporting him.
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TORONTO (CP) - The federal government said Tuesday it needs an adjournment in the complex deportation case against a pizza-store owner whose allegations of influence peddling toppled a federal minister.
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The immigration proposal before Congress continued to prompt objections from each side of the aisle.
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Former paramilitaries have been threatened with deportation from the United States since new anti-terrorism laws were introduced after Sept. 11, 2001.
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At least 25 foreign-born surviving spouses and perhaps many more -- most of them widows -- are on the brink of deportation, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington.