News headlines for “Immigration”, page 261
Farm Workers Fight for an Extra Cent
- Inter Press Service
Chanting 'No more slaves! Pay a living wage!', hundreds of farmworkers, students and others marched 22 miles through central Florida for three days, calling on the Publix supermarket chain to pay an extra penny to the impoverished workers who pick their tomatoes.
COSTA RICA: (In)human Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
The rescue in a Costa Rican port of 36 Asians working as slaves in appalling conditions on two fishing boats once again highlighted the need to fight people trafficking in this Central American country.
Damaged, and Down and Out
- Inter Press Service
Anna Mollah wept uncontrollably in her Glen Oaks, Queens home as she remembered how her husband used to beat her.
JAMAICA: Nursing Exodus May Only Get Worse
- Inter Press Service
The shortage of nurses throughout the Caribbean has reached chronic proportions, in a region already struggling with an ailing health care system.
HAITI: Disorganised Diaspora on Fringe of Post-Quake Decisions
- Inter Press Service
For years, Haitians living overseas have been the lifeline of the troubled country, sending billions of dollars to relatives back home.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Africans Target of Racism, Harassment by Police
- Inter Press Service
The police 'picked me up, they put me in the back of the car. Then they took me to (locality withheld) and beat (expletive) me, and they left me there,' a young person of African background said in a new study into the treatment of youths of African background by Australian police in Melbourne.
U.S.: Groups Hail Refugee Protection Act
- Inter Press Service
Immigrants' rights activists are virtually unanimous in their endorsement of proposed legislation that would change decades of U.S. asylum practices. But proponents of the legislation fear it may never find its way out of the U.S. Senate to the president's desk.
RIGHTS-US: Love Without Borders — Or Papers
- Inter Press Service
Tom is in love. It's an old story: he noticed an attractive stranger at a friend's party, and the attractive stranger noticed Tom. They began talking, then dating, and then they fell in love. For a while, they enjoyed a perfect romance.
U.S.: Audit Finds Major Problems in Immigration Policing
- Inter Press Service
A controversial government programmeme that enlists local police officers and sheriff's deputies to help enforce U.S. immigration laws is verging on being out of control and unable to assess whether it is meeting its stated goals.
JAMAICA: Haitian Refugees Sent Home
- Inter Press Service
On the evening of Jan. 12 when Haiti was devastated by a massive earthquake, Jamaica, which lies just 160 kilometres to the west, sought to assure President René Préval that Jamaica was is in the process of organising a 'practical response' to their plight.
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