News headlines for “Immigration”, page 250
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: In Immigration Detention, Life Is Uncertainty
- Inter Press Service
Mohsen Soltany Zand knows life inside Australia’s immigration detention system. Now an Australian citizen, Zand sought political asylum here after fleeing Iran in the late 1990s. He was held by Australian authorities in several detention facilities between 1999 and 2003. 'My experience was unbelievable. (I suffered) a lot of mental damage and many shocking things (happened). It was absolutely like hell,' he says.
U.S.: Courts Throw Out a Third of Deportation Cases
- Inter Press Service
While U.S. immigration authorities are 'understandably eager to trumpet the overall number' of people they deport, close to one in three deportations recommended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is being rejected by immigration courts, according to an analysis of case-by-case government data.
Lebanon Pressured to Improve Palestinians' Lot
- Inter Press Service
Abu Yussif doesn't want to talk about his work any more. 'It's not going to help and nothing will change anyway,' he says. The tall, white-haired Palestinian has just returned from work and relaxes in his little garden in the refugee camp Bourj ash-Shamali near the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.
U.S. Defaults on Vow to Reform Asylum System
- Inter Press Service
One year after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced plans for a wide-reaching overhaul of the country's long-mismanaged immigration detention system, human rights and immigration advocacy organisations are charging that the government has yet to make significant progress toward the underlying goal of detention reform — a true shift from a penal to a civil approach to immigration detention.
U.S.: Few Big Fish Land in Immigration Dragnet
- Inter Press Service
Putting local police on the 'front lines' of immigration enforcement is distracting federal agencies from their objectives by turning over people with no criminal history, or those who have committed minor or non-violent crimes, and setting them on a course toward unnecessary deportation.
SYRIA: Iraqi Kids Struggle on Dangerous Edges
- Inter Press Service
Leila, 17, presses her hijab-clad head against the front door and strains to hear outside. 'There's nothing,' she says cautiously, turning towards her mother Rawda, the head of the household, in their quiet basement apartment. Along the brocade couch sit her two sisters, Mona, 19, Nadja, 15, and 10-year-old brother Khaled.*
MEXICO: Tens of Thousands of Missing Central American Migrants
- Inter Press Service
The last time Estela Domínguez of Mexico saw her daughter Estela Paz was in April 2006, when the young woman left home with the goal of reaching Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Diaspora Gaining a Political Voice
- Inter Press Service
Pablo Rodríguez, a Mexican migrant living in the United States, is a congressman in the Zacatecas state government in central Mexico, thanks to years of hard work by migrants’ organisations to recover the political rights people lose when they cross the border.
AFRICA: FIFA Moves Against Trafficking of Young Footballers
- Inter Press Service
When he was 15, Maurice Koné dreamed of becoming a great footballer. Adored for his technical skill and eye for goal by fans in Koumassi, a neighbourhood in the south of Abidjan, he dreamed of living the life of a professinoal overseas.
U.S. Polls Bode Ill for Immigration Reform
- Inter Press Service
With conservatives likely to be the biggest winners in Tuesday's U.S. congressional elections, efforts to achieve a more compassionate national immigration policy may be one of the biggest losers.
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