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Maria Dolores Tacuri talks with a reporter Wednesday in her temporary home in Brockton as her 5-year-old son, Jonathan, looks on. The Tacuri family is facing deportation to Ecuador and have lost their house and savings. BROCKTON, MA — In December, immigration agents arrested Milford Ecuadorean roofer Daniel Tacuri on charges of hiring and harboring illegal immigrants. From that time until his sentencing in federal court last Friday, the case has had a ripple effect in the Ecuadorean community, immigrant advocates say. Nearly half of its members are gone. Many remain in fear of U.S. immigration authorities and are disheartened...

Seattle, Washington - The number of immigration violators deported from three Pacific Northwest states surged nearly 40 percent when compared to the same period last year, according to statistics released today by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In the first nine months of fiscal year 2008 (Oct. 2007 through June 2008), ICE returned 7,345 illegal aliens to their home countries who had been living in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. During that same period last fiscal year, ICE removed 5,256. This year’s statistics reflect a 39 percent overall increase in the volume of deportations from the three-state area. Of the...

"Anyone who has doubts that this country is abusing and terrorizing undocumented immigrant workers should read an essay by Erik Camayd-Freixas, a professor and Spanish-language court interpreter who witnessed the aftermath of a huge immigration workplace raid at a meatpacking plant in Iowa." "The essay chillingly describes what Dr. Camayd-Freixas saw and heard as he translated for some of the nearly 400 undocumented workers who were seized by federal agents at the Agriprocessors kosher plant in Postville in May. Under the old way of doing things, the workers, nearly all Guatemalans, would have been simply and swiftly deported. But in...

The U.S. authorities must prevent the mass deportation because there are records that over 56% of those deported were sentenced for crimes in the United States, explained the owner of the Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE). Rommel Moreno Manjarrez manifestó que en el 2006 la Agencia de Aduanas y Emigración del sector de San Diego deporto a 16 mil 476 personas y el 56% había sido condenado por delitos en la Unión Americana. Rommel Moreno Manjarrez said that in 2006 the Customs Agency and emigration sector of San Diego deport 16 thousand 476 persons and 56% had been...

5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is hearing a a suit brought forth byAttorney Susan Watson of Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid on behalf of Monica Castro who lost her daughter in a custody dispute 5 years ago. Ms. Castro had been living with her daughter Rose, and common law husband Omar Gallardo. Gallardo was in the US illegally, while his wife and daughter were both American citizens. The dispute arose when Gallardo was arrested, detained, and later deported by Border Patrol Agents. He stated that he was the father of then 11 month old Rose and...

MATTAWA, WASH -- . -- Nearly everyone in this small farming community in eastern Washington speaks Spanish -- nearly everyone except those in city government and the Police Department, where English is spoken. And almost everyone who speaks one language does not speak the other. That language barrier has engulfed the community, which has grown over the last 20 years from 300 to about 3,200 year-round residents. Nine out of 10 Mattawa residents speak Spanish at home, and 8 out of 10 adults speak English "less than very well," according to the 2000 U.S. Census. The Columbia River basin community,...

The United States is facing a major obstacle in its efforts to deport thousands of illegal immigrants, including many convicted felons: Their home countries don't want them back. This does not sit well with Sen. Arlen Specter, a veteran Republican lawmaker and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Specter was stunned at the situation after touring several prisons in his home state of Pennsylvania, where taxpayer dollars are paying to house foreigners who have served their sentences but could not be deported. In response, he drafted legislation that would punish countries that refuse to take back illegal immigrants. "There...

An illegal alien accused of sexually molesting two underage girls in Carthage two years ago entered Alford pleas Monday on both felony counts he was facing in Jasper County Circuit Court and was ordered turned over to immigration officials for deportation to Mexico. Salomon A. Jiminez, 55, entered the pleas to counts of first-degree statutory rape and first-degree statutory sodomy in a plea agreement with the county prosecutor’s office. The agreement limited the length of sentences he could be assessed to 10 years for each conviction and called for the sentences to run concurrently. Circuit Judge David Dally sentenced Jiminez...

Illegal Alien Deportations on the Rise By Penny Starr CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer April 10, 2008 (CNSNews.com) - A fence has yet to be built along the U.S. border with Mexico, and Congress has failed to come up with a comprehensive immigration policy. Although foreigners continue to sneak into this country, the U.S. government is doing a better job of finding them and sending them back. According to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, a growing number of illegal aliens -- many of them with criminal records -- are being deported to their native homelands. More than 280,500 individuals...

The U.S. Homeland Security department has launched an ambitious nationwide effort that would cost $2 billion to $3 billion a year to identify and deport the estimated 300,000 to 450,000 illegal immigrants locked up each year in jails and prisons.The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation was denounced by immigrant rights groups and received cautiously by those favoring tighter enforcement.''We can do something few law enforcement agencies can do: Not only ensure criminals are off the streets, but ensure they are removed from the country," said ICE spokesman Tim Counts. ''Removing hundreds of thousands of criminals from the country is...

VIDEOSPHOTOS Paying For Immigrant Births Pregnant women from Mexico are crossing the border to have their babies in the U.S. Byron Pitts reports on the debate over who should foot the bill for the children of illegal immigrants. | Share/Embed (CBS) It was 5 a.m. and CBS News national correspondent Byron Pitts is with a woman who is nine months pregnant. She's rushed to a south Texas hospital to undergo a C-section - a $4,700 medical procedure that won't cost her a dime. She qualifies for emergency Medicaid. She gave birth to a healthy, 8 1/2 pound baby boy -...

SCRANTON, Pa. — Sen. Barack Obama told voters worried about illegal immigration yesterday that deporting 12 million people is not "realistic," calling it an "honest conversation" during one of his final stops while trying to make inroads with Pennsylvania's blue-collar workers. A man asked the presidential hopeful what he would do about border security. In his response, Mr. Obama posed the question about what to do with the people here illegally, prompting someone in the audience of his town hall forum to shout "Send them home!" "We are not going to send them home," the Illinois Democrat argued. "I want...

At least 304,000 immigrant criminals eligible for deportation are behind bars nationwide, a top federal immigration official said Thursday. That is the first official estimate of the total number of such convicts in federal, state and local prisons and jails. The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Julie L. Myers, said the annual number of deportable immigrant inmates was expected to vary from 300,000 to 455,000, or 10 percent of the overall inmate population, for the next few years. Ms. Myers estimated that it would cost at least $2 billion a year to find all those immigrants and deport them.

YAKIMA -- The state Court of Appeals has sided with a Yakima County judge who ordered a new trial for a rape defendant facing a life sentence without parole under Washington's three-strikes law. In a ruling issued Thursday, the Appeals Court said Superior Court Judge Blaine Gibson was correct in ordering a new trial for Jose Luis Hernandez based on new evidence that undermined his accuser's credibility. Prosecutors have 30 days to decide whether to appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court. Deputy prosecutor Kevin Eilmes said he has not decided yet whether to seek such a review, which...

MARIETTA - Police have confirmed the driver involved in a fatal accident Sunday evening did not have a United States driver's license and police have yet to locate records to indicate he was a legal immigrant, Officer Mark Bishop with the Marietta Police Department said. Bishop said Kennesaw resident Nicasio Rodrigo Vicente-Hernandez, 29, was involved in two prior accidents Sunday evening before his third and fatal collision. Vicente-Hernandez was allegedly fleeing an earlier fender-bender when he sideswiped a second car while heading the wrong way on the Canton Road Connector, Bishop said. Seconds later, Vicente-Hernandez, driving a 1999 Mercury Villager,...

Sister Cristina Angelini has been called the heart and soul of Shreveport's Renzi Center, an early child development center run by the Catholic church. But the federal government might be getting ready to tear that heart out. In a country where there are millions of illegal aliens -- and a shortage of Catholic sisters -- the feds are threatening to make her leave and return to her native Italy. Exactly why, the government couldn't tell KTBS News today. It might be a bureaucratic mixup. Sister Cristina got a letter from the government last week, telling her she must leave the...

It's getting ugly out there for illegal immigrants. States and cities are cracking down with harsh new ordinances, and the courts are upholding them. Not only are deportations at record highs, but immigrants are being detained at places previously understood to be off-limits, such as schools. The debate about illegal immigration, labor, social justice and international trade has devolved into open season on illegal immigrants. Arizona penalizes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, suspending their business license for 10 days for the first offense, revoking it permanently for the second. Valley Park in Missouri fines businesses that hire illegal immigrants....

How expensive is illegal immigration for the U.S.? The answer may depend on who you ask. Some argue that, overall, illegal immigrants help our economy while others insist their presence creates a fiscal deficit in the billions. Recently, Action 4 News gained exclusive access and insight on the costs of detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. It is just after 4 a.m. But already the nation's largest detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (or ICE) in Raymondville, Texas is bustling with activity. The crew has been preparing for hours to deport a group of 132 Hondurans to their country....

The president of the MEChA club at Palomar College has been deported to Mexico, immigration officials said yesterday. Paola Oropeza, 22, was arrested Jan. 8 by a fugitive operations team with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for the department in San Diego. Oropeza had been ordered to leave the country by an immigration judge, but she failed to comply with that order, Mack said. At the time of her arrest, Oropeza was in the country illegally and was taken to Tijuana, Mack said. Oropeza did not have a criminal record, said Mack, who could not...

TIGERVILLE, S.C. — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday continued to move to the right on immigration during this year's presidential campaign, signing a pledge to enforce immigration laws and to make all illegal aliens go home. The pledge, offered by immigration control advocacy group Numbers USA, commits Mr. Huckabee to oppose a new path to citizenship for current illegal aliens and to cut the number of illegal aliens already in the country through attrition by law enforcement — something Mr. Huckabee said he will achieve through his nine-point immigration plan. "Some would say it's a tough plan. It is,...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A 23-year-old Mexican woman with three American-born children, including one just three weeks old, will return voluntarily to Mexico after what supporters call a harrowing experience with authorities during a traffic stop. Miriam Aviles-Reyes, an illegal immigrant, and the human rights group Derechos Humanos say a Tucson police officer was abusive and called the Border Patrol without necessary cause.

Kick them out Home secretary set to order Italian-style crackdown on immigrants TENS of thousands of illegal immigrants are set to be BOOTED OUT of Britain as the Home Secretary does an Italian Job on them. Jacqui Smith is looking at sensational plans to deport ANY illegal who police simply BELIEVE to be a threat to public safety. She is keen to copy a crackdown in Italy where laws have been changed to bust rampaging criminal gangs of Romanians. HAVE YOUR SAY HERE Italian Premier Romano Prodi used emergency powers to order that any of them even suspected of a...

<p>"I don't know what I'm going to do in Colombia," said Julio Cesar Gomez, speaking in Spanish. "I don't know where we're going to live."</p>

Mexican Consul Enrique Hubbard Urrea has issued an unusual warning to immigrants from his country: Avoid the city of Irving. Deportations in this city have skyrocketed in the last several months – from 262 in all of 2006 to 1,338 through mid-September. "In this city, one has to be extra careful," he told Al Día . "And if possible, avoid going through there, because we suspect, and with good reason, that people are being detained simply because of their appearance." At least 1,600 people have been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement since June 2006 as part of the...

A major Swiss political party has launched an anti-immigrant campaign that worries U.N. anti-racism officials. The party, which holds the largest number of seats in the Swiss Parliament, is pushing a number of controversial proposals, including a law that would expel an entire immigrant family if a child under 18 commits a crime. Ulrich Schluer, one of the party's leaders, wants to ban the building of minarets attached to Muslim mosques.

The city of Manassas, VA could become the next Virginia locality to enact measures targeting illegal aliens. Manassas City Council member Marc T. Aveni, a Republican, yesterday said he wants to introduce a resolution similar to one passed by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors in July, which would deny public services to illegal aliens and toughen local immigration enforcement. "I need to get the rest of the council on board, but I think it"s absolutely something we would want to do," Mr. Aveni said, citing inactivity at the federal and state levels as one of the main...

The 8-year-old boy with close-cropped hair and a missing front tooth stepped off the yellow bus, looking lost and clutching a coloring book against his chest. A two-hour drive away, at the airport in the capital city of San Salvador, a man with shaggy hair and pursed lips walked off an unmarked white plane with his hands cuffed behind his back. Behind him came another 77 convicts -- most returning to their homeland for the first time in years. The boy and the convicts had something in common: They were deportees, returned home on separate days last month. The convicts...

PROJECT: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE SUBJECT: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION / RESPONSE ON THE U.S. LOCAL LEVEL WITHIN ILLEGAL ALIEN COMMUNITY/ABROAD FILE: OPPOSITION RESEARCH TRANSLATION: SPANISH to ENGLISH (w/BABELFISH) Original Spanish Title: ("EU Intensifica Medidas Contra Inmigrantes a Todos Los Niveles") (TRANSLATION) "New York, August 26 -- A woman is surrounded by 15 US federal agents on a street corner in Los Angeles, her 8-year old son crying in fear, and she is deported; U.S. politicians denounce a triple homicide in Newark, New Jersey blaming it on the presence of illegal aliens ("indocumentados") in the country, towns across the nation start to approve local measures...

Immigration agents take Mercury News along on South Bay raids Immigration agents arrested three South Bay residents early Tuesday, part of a federal sweep for illegal immigrants who have ignored previous deportation orders. For the first time, the Mercury News was invited along to watch as the arrests were made, an effort by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement to show Bay Area media the inner workings of a growing national crackdown on immigrants who are deportable because of criminal convictions, and others who have been ordered deported. The invitation came months after a comprehensive immigration reform bill was stymied in...

Threat to deport Roma family of 54 camped on motorway Government to send out firm message: we will not give in to groups seeking welfare Henry McDonald, Ireland editor Sunday July 22, 2007 The Observer (UK) The Irish government is determined to deport a group of Roma Gypsies who are living on roundabouts and grassy areas on Ireland's busiest motorway, The Observer has learnt. Plans have been drawn up to allow the gardai to evict, forcibly if necessary, the 32 adults and 22 children from one extended family who have set up camps on the M50 between Dublin airport and...

Geraldo Rivera’s breathless tease By Michelle Malkin  •  July 16, 2007 08:09 AM If you want ignorant ranting about immigration and the Zina Linnik case, go watch Geraldo Rivera (thanks to readers for e-mailing me about it over the weekend and AP for clipping the vid). Utterly shameless. Geraldo teased his Saturday night segment on the case by claiming that Zina’s uncle, Anatoly Kalchik, would argue that Zina’s accused murderer should be called a “monster” instead of an “immigrant:” GERALDO: The tragic story was twisted to aggravate the immigration debate… A little girl snatched and brutally murdered. Tonight her family speaks...

An illegal immigrant previously deported after being convicted of taking lewd pictures of an Edward Hospital patient is back in the country. Jose C. Rostro, 26, was convicted of disorderly conduct and unauthorized videotaping after taking digital pictures of a partially dressed, semiconscious patient who was at the Naperville hospital for a procedure after a miscarriage. Edward officials have confirmed Rostro was working as a surgical support technician at the hospital Oct. 26, 2004, when he took the pictures. Prosecutors from the DuPage County state's attorney's office attempted to get jail time for Rostro's actions. But a judge sentenced the...

Having failed to secure refugee status, a Kosovo citizen finds trying to get home is harder than trying to stay in Canada, he said yesterday. Presented with a deportation order two years ago, Ardian Koshi says he wants to be deported and is willing to pay for his plane ticket home but he's trapped in Canada, unable to get back to his wife and son in Kosovo. "My wife is now very depressed ... because I keep lying to her and telling her that I'll be back this month, and the next month and the next month," said Koshi. "I...

He has never called for the deportation of all illegal immigrants, but Lou Dobbs believes the U.S. could pull off such a feat if it really wanted to. The CNN anchor, whose stance against illegal immigration has helped raise his ratings but also fueled criticism, speaks to Lesley Stahl for a profile to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, May 6 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Dobbs is against amnesty programs for illegal immigrants and the president's guest worker proposal, so Stahl wonders whether Dobbs thinks the government could deport all illegal immigrants. "I've never called for...

Home without hope: the deportees blamed for a tropical crimewave They fly in on 'Con Air' to stony stares from officials, but a smile from one woman Rory Carroll in Kingston Monday April 2, 2007 The Guardian )UK) As the plane descended through tropical sky, and Caribbean surf gave way to Kingston's rooftops, lumps formed in the passengers' throats. After years or even decades away, they were back in Jamaica, the land of their birth. But if there were tears as the plane landed at Norman Manley airport, they were not of joy. Few if any of the 31 passengers...

Immigrant rights activists are asking the Bush administration to stop deporting undocumented immigrants picked up in stepped-up immigration enforcement. The loud knocks on the door awoke Verónica Ruiz and her family at 5:59 a.m. Feb. 6. ''At first I thought it was a robbery, but then I knew,'' Ruiz said. ``Immigration agents were outside looking for me.'' Ruiz jumped out of bed, gathered her husband and two children in a room of their Miami-Dade apartment and hid for five hours as immigration officers outside shone flashlights through windows. Eventually, the officers left without making the arrest -- and Ruiz went...

Reid wins battle to deport cleric By Philip Johnston and Joshua Rozenberg Last Updated: 5:47pm GMT 26/02/2007 The Home Office has won a key legal victory in a five-year battle to eject a suspected al-Qa’eda terror leader from Britain. Abu Qatada arrived in Britain illegally in 1993 A court ruled that Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric described as Osama bin Laden’s spiritual representative in Europe, can be deported to his homeland. Qatada, a London-based imam, has been fighting Government efforts to remove him to Jordan since 2002 claiming he faces torture or death. His lawyers argued that under human...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A local cab driver allegedly tried to run over two customers after a fight over religion became heated. The incident happened early Sunday morning on the Vanderbilt campus and left one man hospitalized and a cab driver arrested, said police Two students visiting from Ohio were coming from a bar downtown when they got into an argument with their driver over religion, said police. After they paid the driver he allegedly ran them down in a parking lot. Ibrihim Ahmned, of United Cab, was arrested and charged with assault, attempted homicide and theft. One of the passengers,...

Almost legal Near the end of visa quest, Mexican immigrant is arrested and forced to leave his American family behind in Gahanna Monday, January 29, 2007 Kelly Lecker THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Juvenal Barajas was tired of looking over his shoulder. He had a 13-year marriage to an American woman and had raised five stepchildren. He had a steady job at a Westerville drywall company. He paid taxes and had joined a church. But Barajas knew his American dream could end at any time, because he had come here illegally from Mexico as a teenager. It didn’t make him shy away...

WOODSTOCK, Ill. — Not many illegal immigrants ask to be deported. But Jose Vallejo of Mexico did, rather than face a potential prison term of 30 years for sex assault here in the United States. Vallejo, who is now a 17-year-old Mexican national, pinned his four-year-old female victim down on a bed then molested her on April 12, 2006. While in federal custody, Vallejo asked a federal immigration judge to deport him. The request was granted during a Jan. 4 deportation hearing in Chicago. "It's kind of terrifying to know that someone who has violated a four-year-old, sexually violated, would...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has sided with U-S immigration authorities who want to deport a man convicted in a car theft case in California. In a near-unanimous decision, the court ruled today that immigration law provides for deporting someone convicted of aiding and abetting a theft offense when the term of imprisonment is at least one year. The ruling involves Luis Alexander Duenas-Alvarez, a Peruvian immigrant who was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a state theft charge.

Nonetheless, Palos Heights car dealer now may be deported back to Italy Bruno Mancari's prison sentence was chopped nearly in half Wednesday -- but he now faces deportation to Italy. Mancari, the 56-year-old brother of auto-dealership baron Frank Mancari, was originally sentenced in July 2005 to 41 months in federal prison on his conviction for illegal possession of a handgun he kept in his Palos Heights home. Earlier this year, a federal appeals court ordered a new sentencing hearing and ruled the judge was mistaken in thinking he couldn't give Mancari a lighter sentence. "I was not happy with the...

We tuned in to the latest episode of the illegal immigration drama this week and saw a tantalizing subplot — a supposed crackdown on identify theft. But considering that none of the 230 meatpacking-plant workers nabbed in Minnesota was actually arrested for stealing anyone's identity, I'm recommending a rewrite. Of course, all the actors played their roles perfectly. Federal agents enforced the law of the land. Immigrant-rights advocates denounced the raids and bemoaned the impact they would have on children left behind. And we'll see you next week at the same time on the same channel. This sad spectacle —...

The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that legal immigrants cannot be deported when convicted of relatively minor drug-possession offenses, a decision likely to affect thousands of people. By an 8-1 vote, the high court handed a setback to the Bush administration and ruled the immigrants cannot be deported for drug offenses that are felony crimes under some state laws, but less serious misdemeanors under federal law. A number of civil rights, immigrant advocacy and criminal defense groups, along with former U.S. government immigration lawyers, had urged the Supreme Court to reject the administration's position --snip-- The case before the court...

At war with radical Islam National Post Mon 30 Oct 2006 Page: A13 Section: Issues & Ideas Byline: Lorne Gunter Social housing must be counted as one of the greatest failures -- and there are many -- of the "progressive" thinking of the 1960s and 1970s. Nearly everywhere large public housing projects have been built, they have become incubators for crime, drug dependence, fatherless families, unemployment and welfare. Rather than lifting minorities out of poverty, social housing has herded them together where they are easier prey for bad people and bad ideas. So, at least some of the troubles...

CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France - Marauding youths torched hundreds of vehicles overnight and on Saturday in renewed violence coinciding with the first anniversary of riots that exposed a deep schism between poor North African immigrants and mainstream France. A group of teenagers set one bus on fire Saturday in the southern French port city of Marseille, seriously wounding a passenger. Three others suffered from smoke inhalation, police said. Two other public buses and 277 vehicles around the country were burned overnight, police said. Six police were injured and 47 people were arrested, ministry officials said. Still the Interior Ministry described the night...

Britain is embroiled in a fierce debate over British Muslim women who wear a niqab--an opaque veil that covers a woman's entire face. Many British Muslims have expressed outrage that a public schoolteacher was ordered to remove her veil--while many other Britons have defended the school, criticized the wearing of niqabs, and called for the greater assimilation of Muslims into British society. "Britons are absolutely right to criticize the niqab," said Alex Epstein, junior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. "It is a demeaning, barbaric article of clothing that inculcates shame in women, depriving them of individuality and femininity." "But...

The French housing estates hit by a wave of riots a year ago could once again descend into violence, an intelligence report has warned. The conditions that led to the 2005 unrest are still in place, it says. The warning comes just days before the anniversary of the first riots, following the death of two youths in an estate north-east of Paris. Recent weeks have seen a rise in clashes between police and youths in the capital's immigrant suburbs. The report by the intelligence agency of the interior ministry, dated 11 October, was leaked to the Figaro newspaper. The BBC's...

French police face 'permanent intifada' By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 15 minutes ago On a routine call, three unwitting police officers fell into a trap. A car darted out to block their path, and dozens of hooded youths surged out of the darkness to attack them with stones, bats and tear gas before fleeing. One officer was hospitalized, and no arrests made. The recent ambush was emblematic of what some officers say has become a near-perpetual and increasingly violent conflict between police and gangs in tough, largely immigrant French neighborhoods that were the scene of a three-week paroxysm...

The row over Muslim women wearing veils shows how Britain risks creating a system of "voluntary apartheid", shadow home secretary David Davis has warned. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Davis questioned whether there was a "series of closed societies" in the UK. [Mr Davis is worried that Britain is becoming a divided society] And he said there was a growing feeling the Muslim community was "excessively sensitive to criticism" and "unwilling to engage in substantive debate". Last week Commons leader Jack Straw said the veils caused "separateness". Government 'confused' Mr Davis, the Conservative MP for Haltemprice and Howden, said...