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"150 Iraqi Christians have sought refuge in the Cathedral of St. Enechubeng to ask the immigration authorities to reconsider the decisions to refuse their asylum applications in Sweden, reports Christians of Iraq. They recently organized themselves and began to campaign for review of decisions by the immigration authorities against them. More than 150 of them who are threatened with deportation from Sweden gathered at the Cathedral of Linköping, to ask the Church of Sweden to help deliver their message to the politicians and stave off their being deported."

<p>PHOENIX — Immigration authorities are flying illegal immigrants deep into their native Mexico from Southern Arizona to discourage dangerous crossings in triple-digit desert heat. The twice-daily flights from Tucson to Mexico City are intended to keep immigrants away from border towns where they would likely run into smugglers who want to sneak them back into the U.S...The U.S. Department of Homeland Security flights began Saturday for the sixth straight summer and will end Sept. 28. Tucson is the only spot in this country where the flights depart. Arizona is the busiest illegal entry point into the U.S.</p>

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At a ramshackle homeless shelter in Reynosa, Mexico, on the south bank of the Rio Grande, a group of men stand in the suffocating heat all day. From behind a low cement wall, they stare across at the country where, until recently, they lived, worked and raised families. ... Manuel Cantero is among the men at the shelter. He's a 54-year-old laborer originally from Nuevo Laredo. For the past 29 years, he lived quietly in Miami, worked odd jobs, married and had three kids. "But work began to get scarcer; my wife got into drugs. They deported me. I lost...

DHS, ICE, Child Svcs, and your government from hell Don’t EVER think, even for a second, “It can’t happen here!”I have known Suzanne, and Calvin McHenry for close to seven years. During that time, Suzanne and I have “spoken” to each other, via Instant Messenger, on a daily basis. We speak by phone 2-4 times a month. These are some of the best people anyone could hope to meet on this earth. Being their friend is both an honor and a privilege.What has happened to them, over the last 30 days, should never happen to a soul on this earth,...

WASHINGTON - Spc. Moonsammy Narinesammy isn’t worried about dying in Iraq. He’s worried about spending the rest of his life in Guyana. Narinesammy, 31, who has months left on his deployment, spends all of his free time between missions trying to solve his wife’s citizenship problems. Immigration and Naturalization Services officials are finalizing deportation paperwork for Ratashwarie, while she waits nervously in New York. "I don’t know if somebody is going to knock on the door one day and haul me away while my daughter is out at school," she said.

The administration continues to enforce the ban on non-Americans living with HIV - against the will of the Congress and the views of president George W. Bush. Here's the latest example: ""Paul Thorn, a British activist scheduled to speak today, said he was denied a U.S. visa because he is HIV positive ... "The U.S. government actively discriminates against people who have been tested for the HIV virus and have been diagnosed HIV-positive," he said in the statement ... Thorn said his application was turned down despite the interventions of Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Jim McDermott and appeals to...

The children are all U.S. citizens and say their constitutional rights are being violated because they, too, will likely have to leave the country if their parents are forced to leave.

The last thing 11-year-old Ewelina Bledniak of Cummings, Ga., had in mind for her summer vacation was a deportation fight. But Hubert and Agnes Bledniak's daughter, who has been in the U.S. since she was 2 years old, faces getting thrown out of America if she doesn't "voluntarily leave" the country by July 23. If she doesn't go "home" to Poland — a country she hasn't seen since she was a baby — on her own, she'll be sent back involuntarily and not allowed to return for 10 years. Ewelina's family came to America in 1999, and her father has...

A federal immigration judge denied bail Friday to a 23-year-old engineering student from Tampa who has been charged by the U.S. government for engaging in terrorism. The defendant, Youssef Megahed, has already been acquitted by a federal jury of related charges. But now, he faces essentially the same charges again in an immigration court, where if he is found guilty he faces deportation back to his native Egypt. The case has inflamed Muslim immigrant groups, and has become a cause célèbre in Egypt, where President Barack Obama makes a much anticipated trip next week. The issue: Whether an immigrant defendant...

The Obama administration is expanding a program initiated by President George W. Bush aimed at checking the immigration status of virtually every person booked into local jails....he measure could result in a tenfold increase in illegal immigrants who have been convicted of crimes and identified for deportation.... The program began as a pilot effort in October and operates in 48 counties across the country, including Fairfax County. This year, fingerprints from 1 million local jail bookings will be screened under the program. It also operates Dallas, Houston, Miami, Boston and Phoenix, according to ICE, and will expand to Los Angeles...

WASHINGTON – Two people facing deportation from the United States have been taken into custody at the White House gate. They had arrived for a tour of the executive mansion. The pair was part of an adult education program, and a routine background check showed they had an outstanding immigration order against them.

A lawyer for alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk said Tuesday that he is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the deportation of the 89-year-old suburban Cleveland resident to Germany, where he faces 29,000 counts of accessory to murder. John Broadley said he sent the motion from Florida and expects it to be filed with the court Wednesday morning. Demjanjuk's family argues he is too sick and frail to be deported. Broadley said he will ask for a reprieve of at least 90 days so he can argue that a federal appeals court in Ohio erred last week...

JOHN Lennon had some high-powered New Yorkers quietly battling to keep him and Yoko Ono from being deported by the Nixon White House for their anti-war activities. Never before seen letters written by then-Mayor John Lindsay, Dick Clark, Rep. Bella Abzug and Joan Baez will be unveiled by Ono at an exhibit on Lennon's New York years May 12 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC in SoHo.

WorldNetDaily Judge's mercy prevents honor killing, for now But woman who fears husband's wrath may yet be sent to her death Posted: April 27, 2009 11:17 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn WorldNetDaily Roohi Tabassum This afternoon, a judge placed a temporary stay on deporting a Pakistani woman who feared her husband would kill her if she were reunited with him. Roohi Tabassum has been a refugee living for years in Mississauga, Ontario, making a living as a hairdresser, while filing for permanent refugee residency on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. Her husband, Faisal Javed, however, has been living in Dubai and...

Immigration rally to be held in Elizabeth, NJ Saturday April 25, 2009, Thousands were expected to attend a rally in Union County today to push for comprehensive immigration reform. The "Family Unity" day rally is part of a national effort to end deportations and raids that immigration activists say destroy families. Among those expected to attend were several federal lawmakers, including U.S. Senator Robert Menendez and Rep. Albio Sires, both D-N.J. A consortium of churches, national and local immigration advocates and individuals have been organizing prayer vigils, town-hall meetings and rallies in 20 U.S. cities.The New Jersey gathering took place...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=95663 Thursday, April 23, 2009 Help stop an 'honor killing' Exclusive: Andrew Longman urges action for woman set to be deported to Pakistan Posted: April 22, 2009 1:00 am Eastern Emphatic in winning the war against Islamist jihadism is the ability to articulate morality in protecting the innocent. The West's moral and religious validity is measured, universally and in the eyes of the people, via whether, "orphans and old widows in their distress" are cared for. The Bible calls that "pure and faultless...

Readers outraged as appeal heard for deporting By TOM GODFREY, SUN MEDIA Last Updated: 8th April 2009, 3:47am The first of two appeals is being filed today to try to stop the deportation of a Mississauga woman to Pakistan where she fears being slain in an honour killing by her estranged husband. The April 28 removal of Roohi Tabassum has caught the attention of Sun Media readers, and viewers who saw a report on TorontoSun.com, who have phoned or sent e-mails demanding Immigration Minister Jason Kenney stop the deportation. "I have been getting a lot of support from people," Tabassum...

Published: April 19, 2009 3:00 a.m. Illegal status clouds future for graduates Angela Mapes Turner The Journal Gazette José speaks with frustration, but not bitterness, about the principle of American life that most inspires him. “Everybody has the opportunity to do something,” he said of his adopted country. “Well, not in my case. A lot of people have the opportunity to do something.” José pays attention to detail, from the tips of his carefully spiked hair to his layered T-shirts and shiny, clean Nikes. Attention to detail helped the 19-year-old high school senior learn English in a few short years....

In elementary school, Benita Veliz dreaded substitute teachers. Her classmates would act up and the sub would threaten to call the principal, a prospect so upsetting to Veliz that her regular teacher began placing her in a colleague’s classroom on days the teacher could not make it to class. Imagine how Veliz, now 23, reacted this January when she was thrown in jail after a traffic stop because she is an unauthorized immigrant. “To go from that to being in jail was surreal,” Veliz said, tears welling in her eyes. Veliz’s parents brought her across the border when she was...

Refugee fears death in Pakistan AARON HARRIS/TORONTO STAR Roohi Tabassum, 44, shown in her lawyer's office April 6, 2009, says she will be killed by her husband if she is deported to Pakistan, booked for this month. Hairdresser says husband overseas has threatened to 'finish' her if she's deported to her native land April 07, 2009 KENYON WALLACE STAFF REPORTER Roohi Tabassum had nothing when she arrived in Canada eight years ago as a refugee from Pakistan. But since then, Tabassum, 44, has built a life in this country. She cuts hair at a salon. She bought a house in...

Youssef Megahed, fresh off being acquitted by a federal jury on explosives charge, was shopping with his father, Samir, Monday..."We were surrounded by men...," said Samir. "They did not allow me to talk to Youssef...Then Youssef was whisked away... Megahed...was arrested on an immigration warrant, according to his attorney...agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made the arrest. "Mr. Megahed has been placed into removal proceedings and is being held in ICE custody pending the outcome of his case," said James P. Judge, local ICE spokesman.... Allen said he thinks Megahed will be taken from Tampa to ICE's Krome...

BOSTON (AP) - Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt lost her bid for asylum more than four years ago, and a judge ordered her deported. Instead, Zeituni Onyango stayed, living for years in public housing. Now, in a case that puts the president in a tough position both personally and politically, Onyango's request is being reconsidered under a little-used provision in U.S. immigration rules that allows denied asylum claims to be reheard if applicants can show that something has changed to make them eligible. Such as the ascension of her nephew to the presidency of the world's most powerful country.

At a recent San Francisco event, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced the Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests of illegal immigrants. "Taking parents from their children -- that's un-American," Pelosi said. Fox News aired videotape of Pelosi's "un-American" remark last week, and a minor national story was born. [...] She has long opposed enforcement of federal immigration laws duly enacted by Congress, even as she pays lip service to the need to enforce the law. In 2003, Pelosi accused ICE of "terrorizing" workers after agents raided a number of Wal-Mart stores for hiring and contracting undocumented janitors. By the way, during...

Sweden's Court of Appeal has issued a lifetime deportation order to a man who has lived in Sweden for 27 years. The man, who came to Sweden from Croatia in 1981 and received a permanent residency permit in 1985, has 18 criminal convictions on his record. His latest arrest came in 2007, when a divided Court of Appeal sentenced him to several years in jail followed by permanent expulsion from the country. With four children and one grandchild in Sweden, all of whom are Swedish citizens, the man called on the Supreme Court to rip up the deportation order and...

Her husband, José Alfredo Garcia, was arrested by Mineral Wells police, and his status as an illegal immigrant quickly got him a one-way ticket to Mexico. He was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deported the next day. It didn’t matter that he had been paying taxes, buying a house or taking care of his daughters, who are American citizens because they were born in the U.S. "The little ones don’t understand, and they don’t know what happened. They don’t know why their dad has to be in Mexico," Gonzalez-Garcia said at her Fort Worth home. Garcia’s...

JUAREZ, Mexico — When he crossed illegally into the U.S. in 2002, Cesar Sanchez didn't plan on stabbing a girlfriend's estranged husband eight times. Yet there he was, a convicted murderer dropped at the Texas border last month—one less worry for U.S. officials but a source of concern for the cities in Central America receiving thousands of freed convicts. "I crossed like so many others; for a dream," said Sanchez, 25, wondering how he'd make it back to his family in Veracruz. "And, then ..." U.S. Immigration officials are escalating efforts to put some 450,000 illegal immigrants serving prison time...

The nondescript 737 jet taxied to the front of the runway line at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Aboard the flight, 53 passengers stared out windows as their rising plane banked toward Mexico and their handcuffs glinted in the morning sun. This is U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Flight Repatriate, a booming airline ferrying illegal immigrants out of the country. Flying worldwide from O'Hare and 22 other airports, the so-called ICE Air planes transported more than 367,000 illegal immigrants, including 11,500 from the Chicago area, out of the U.S. from October 2007 to October 2008—a 26 percent increase over the previous...

WASHINGTON -- If you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country. Napolitano wants what she calls "criminal aliens" off American streets. She is looking at existing immigration enforcement programs to see if taxpayers are getting the most bang for their buck. "That sounds very simple, but it's historically not been done," Napolitano said, speaking to reporters and senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Thursday. About 113,000 criminals who were in the U.S. illegally were deported last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. The agency...

CLEVELAND -- The aunt of President Barack Obama, who was living in Cleveland for a time, will get to stay in the United States for now. A judge issued a stay in the deportation case of Zeituni Onyango, 56. She fled to Cleveland from Boston last year when it was made known that she had been illegally in the United States since

Local immigrant advocate organizations are outraged over U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s ruling that illegal immigrants don’t have a constitutional right to effective legal representation in deportation hearings. “The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition strongly disagrees with the attorney general’s last-minute decision,” said Public Awareness Coordinator Catalina Nieto in an e-mail. “With this ruling, (Mr.) Mukasey unraveled decades of legal precedent guaranteeing due process to people facing deportation.” In the decision issued late Wednesday, Mr. Mukasey said immigrants in the deportation process don’t have a constitutional right to an attorney, leaving them no constitutional right to appeal their case...

<p>More than 50,000 Hispanics in North Carolina will not be able to renew their driver's licenses in 2009 and could face deportation thanks to the state's eight separate programs aimed at detecting undocumented immigrants.</p> <p>From Jan. 1, 2002, to Aug. 28, 2006, North Carolina permitted the use of a taxpayer identification number, an ITIN or W-7, so that residents lacking a Social Security number could apply for a driver's license.</p>

To save money, Gov. Chris Gregoire wants illegal aliens serving time in state prisons deported. Her proposal estimates that deporting illegal aliens - who are serving or would serve time for drug or property crime convictions - will save the state more than $9 million in the next two-year budget. The state faces a $5.7 billion budget deficit over the next 2 1/2 years, and Gregoire has proposed a no new-taxes budget proposal laden with cuts, including about $200 million from the Department of Corrections, the attorney general's office, and other public safety programs. The deportation proposal is modeled after...

Investigators say they believe 64-year-old Paulette Locklear was beaten to death outside her home Tuesday afternoon after confronting a man who was trying to break in. Julio Cesar Ramos, 45, is charged with first-degree murder in Locklear’s death. Ramos, who is from Honduras, has been deported from the U.S. several times and is in the country illegally, said Debbie Tanna, spokeswoman for the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. Ramos told investigators he is homeless and unemployed., Tanna said. Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies responded to Locklear’s home on the 1200 block of Wilmington Road after she called 911 Tuesday afternoon to report...

Chertoff's letter to Perry reveals a clash of the titans U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff fired back Friday at Gov. Rick Perry's sharp criticism of federal efforts to deport illegal immigrants booked into Texas jails. Chertoff sent Perry a four-page letter defending what he termed as aggressive and expanded efforts by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to remove illegal immigrants, while complaining of a lack of cooperation from local law enforcement who jailed them for criminal offenses. "ICE, however, cannot remove and deport criminal aliens in State or local jails that it does not know about,' "...

Barack Obama’s “Auntie Zeituni” plans to fight a deportation order so that she can stay in the United States, according to her lawyer. Zeituni Onyango, who is affectionately described in Mr Obama’s autobiography Dreams from My Father, was found by The Times last week living in a South Boston council flat. She is now staying with a clergyman cousin in Cleveland, Ohio, but Mr Obama has not made contact with her since the story broke, Mike Rogers, her spokesman, said yesterday. Ms Onyango, 56, the half-sister of Mr Obama’s father, is recalled in his bestselling memoir as the first Kenyan...

Nearly 3,000 of those deported had criminal records. More than 10,000 immigrants were deported in the past year from Alaska, Oregon and Washington, an increase of 37 percent over the year before, according to new numbers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The deportees are both illegal immigrants and permanent residents -- in the country legally but not citizens -- who have committed crimes. The spike in deportations reflects a continuing nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration by ICE and other federal agencies. Nationwide, the number of deportations in the period increased from 290,000 to more than 345,000, an increase of almost...

Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned. Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.

Obama Had Promised To Keep Immigrant Mothers From Being Separated From Their Children CHICAGO (AP) ― Activists are calling on Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to fulfill promises to keep immigrant mothers from being separated from their children. That plea came outside immigration offices in Chicago as a mother of six filed for a stay of deportation. Francisca Lino is being supported by Adalberto United Methodist Church, which the same church that offered sanctuary to another immigrant, Elvira Arellano. Arellano stayed at Adalberto for a year before being arrested and deported last August. Lino's husband and six children are in...

Lucila Huerta of Madera is caring for her ill husband. Federal immigration officials want to kick Lucila Huerta out of the country. Doing so, her attorneys say, might prove costly for taxpayers. Huerta, an illegal immigrant, is providing round-the-clock care for her husband, Guadalupe Huerta, a U.S. citizen living in Madera. He lies bedridden in their tiny Madera apartment, suffering from the lung disease called Valley fever and paralyzed by meningitis. Without her help, the couple's attorneys say, Guadalupe Huerta would have nowhere else to go but a nursing home. Medi-Cal, the state-federal health insurance program for low-income residents, would...

In the six months since the Frederick County Sheriff's Office began working closely with federal immigration authorities, 183 illegal immigrants have been identified, detained and put on track for deportation, a crackdown that has spooked the area's Latino community and provoked accusations by rights groups of ethnic profiling. Sheriff Chuck Jenkins, the first law enforcement official in Maryland to sign a cooperative agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said that since April, about 9 percent of all people arrested and taken to the county detention center have proven to be illegal immigrants. He called those results a success and said...

Jerome Corsi, author of the anti-Obama book titled The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality was deported back to America not because of a hitch in his travel documents as reported earlier but due to the nature of his mission in the country. According to Foreign affairs minister Moses Wetangula, Corsi displayed inconsistent conduct with the expected norms of good behaviour in the country. Corsi was on Tuesday night deported back to America after he attempted to launch the book blasting White House hopeful Barrack Obama at a Nairobi hotel. The initial explanation offered by the authorities...

The Removal Process Within the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 200 Immigration Judges located in 53 Immigration Courts nationwide conduct proceedings and decide individual removal cases. Removal proceedings account for approximately 80 percent of Immigration Judges' caseload. Federal rules of evidence are inapplicable in Immigration Court; thus, an Immigration Judge has greater authority to consider most kinds of evidence in deciding a case. The types of proceedings an Immigration Judge may preside over are briefly discussed below.

On September 25, 2008, Senators Menendez (D-NJ) and Kennedy (D-MA) introduced legislation (S.3594) that, among other things, would enforce the protection of fundamental constitutional rights of persons wrongfully ensnared by the sweeping immigration raids Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) regularly conducts. The legislation would also ensure that persons detained through immigration raids and in deportation proceedings are afforded humane treatment and provided with necessary medical care. [snip] Reports in the public media indicate that citizens and persons that are legally authorized to stay in the United States, in particular those of Latino origin, are increasingly caught-up in immigration raids. In...

Worried wife turned over bloody clothes to police Bloody clothes, a used key card and a tip from a worried wife led Knoxville police to the man charged with strangling a former Alabama homecoming queen, court records revealed today. A fisherman found Jennifer Lee Hampton's nude body floating in Melton Hill Lake on Saturday, seven days after friends reported her missing from her West Knoxville motel room. Valentino Vasquez Miranda, 19, who's described by police as an illegal immigrant, faces a charge of first-degree murder in her death. Authorities served him with the warrant this morning in jail. The charges...

An illegal Mexican immigrant living in Hope Mills has been charged with sex crimes involving a teenage girl. Erick Cisneros-Zavala, 25, of the 4800 block of South Main Street, was arrested Friday at a home he shared with a relative, according to a news release from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. Bail was set at $15,000, according to the release. He was charged with statutory rape, statutory sex offense against a child and taking indecent liberties with a child. Investigators said the offenses occurred Thursday with a 14-year-old girl. Debbie Tanna, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Office, said Cisneros-Zavala was...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents announced Monday that 1,157 people have been arrested in an illegal immigration sweep in California. The sweep, which ended last week, was conducted during the past three weeks in Southern California and the Bay Area.The operation led to the arrest of more than 300 people in San Diego and Imperial counties, The San Diego Union Tribune reported Monday. At least 125 of those suspects have criminal histories, the newspaper said.Most of them had returned to the United States after being deported or have failed to comply with court orders to leave the country, ICE spokeswoman...

Jose Herrera said he came to the United States when he was 7. Arrested at an Immigration raid recently and detained for three months in Cook County Jail, he has a court case pending in which he's trying to gain permanent residency. "I have a 7-year-old child to support," said Herrera, 25. "These raids don't do any good. They just separate families." He joined more than 100 people Wednesday night who marched and held a candlelight vigil in the western suburbs in an effort to halt raids, address inhuman conditions at Immigration detention centers and urge enactment of a state...

The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office has identified 34 incarcerated individuals as illegal aliens and turned them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation this year, officials said. And on Wednesday three more illegal aliens were turned over to ICE. Sheriff Tim Gobble said he expects the number of illegal aliens identified and turned over to ICE for deportation "will accelerate and increase as a result of joining the Criminal Alien Program (CAP)." Sheriff Gobble said he is still interested in the federal 287g program "which will allow us an even greater ability to identify illegal aliens and...

The Bradley County Sheriff's Office has joined the Federal Criminal Alien Program offered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify incarcerated criminal aliens; ensure that such aliens are not released into the community; and remove them from the United States upon release. Sheriff Tim Gobble and Chief Deputy Bill Dyer met recently with representatives of immigration control to finalize details of Bradley County's participation. The Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2008 focuses on identifying criminal aliens incarcerated in the county. It helps to ensure criminal aliens are not released back into the community upon release. "This program allows the...