News headlines for “Immigration”, page 273
US: Children Call for End to Immigration Raids
- Inter Press Service
It has been two months since Katherine Figueroa has shared a meal with her parents. Both of them are undocumented workers that were arrested in a workplace raid last June by Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office here.
EUROPE: Financial Crisis Leads to Rapes
- Inter Press Service
Several groups across Eastern Europe have called for a crackdown on mafia-run job agencies amid reports that their members are raping and torturing migrant workers who have lost their jobs in the economic crisis.
COLOMBIA: A Country in Flight
- Inter Press Service
While the street sweepers clean up huge piles of rubbish in the Tercer Milenio park in the centre of the Colombian capital, young police officers have been posted there to prevent any more people displaced from their rural homes by the armed conflict from trying to camp there.
MIDEAST: 'Lay Not Thine Hand Upon the Boy'
- Inter Press Service
'And He said, Lay not thine hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God' (Genesis 22:12). Not so much in fear of God as in fear of their own conscience, Israeli leaders have given temporary relief to hundreds of children of foreign workers who were facing deportation with their parents.
EUROPE: Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Males
- Inter Press Service
Governments and third sector organisations must raise awareness of a growing problem with male human trafficking in some of Eastern Europe's poorest countries if its victims are to get the help they need, people trafficking monitors say.
NICARAGUA: Zelaya's Followers at Risk of Humanitarian Emergency
- Inter Press Service
The huge number of supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya who have flocked to a small farming town in the north of Nicaragua have caused a social emergency that could spiral into a full-fledged humanitarian crisis, said United Nations officials visiting the area.
GREECE: Zero Tolerance, Zero Concern
- Inter Press Service
Increasing evidence has surfaced that a zero tolerance policy is denying due protection to people fleeing hardship, and condemning them to degrading treatment.
MIGRATION-US: Profiling Persists Despite Revamped Guidelines
- Inter Press Service
A three-day widely publicised immigration raid by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office left the city of Mesa like a ghost town. Small businesses closed. Workers stayed home to avoid being pulled over and questioned for documents.
MIGRATION: Abandoned Between Two States
- Inter Press Service
Isabelle Caillol, an activist with the Turkish branch of the human rights advocacy group Helsinki Citizens Assembly, sent a mass email to pro-migrant activists in Greece in May seeking help to find the family of Abbas Khavari, a 14-year-old Afghan refugee born in Iran.
CZECH REPUBLIC: Roma Exodus Provokes Diplomatic Conflict
- Inter Press Service
Canada has imposed visas on Czechs following a year of thousands of visa applications from Roma who point to persecution in the Czech Republic. Czech officials and media put the blame on Canada.
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