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Hunger Striker Demands Release from Jail
12 Mar 2012 / Breaking News, Deportation, The DREAM ActRyan Sullivan reports that Attorneys for Winston-Salem activist Uriel Alberto – who is on a hunger strike lasting more than a week – plan to file a bond motion Tuesday in immigration court to try to get him out of the Wake County Jail: Alberto and two other protesters were charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct [...]
Court of Appeals Rules on Gender Based Asylum Claim
13 Jul 2010 / Announcements, Asylum, Board of Immmigration Appeals, Breaking News, Court Cases, Deportation, Excecutive Office of Immigration Review, Immigration Reform, Judges, NewsThe Los Angeles Times reported today that a three judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit granted Ms. Lesly Perdomo’s petition for review and ordered that her case be remanded to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to consider whether Guatemalan women constitute a “particular social group” and as such, be eligible for political asylum. The court also ordered [...]
Help Haiti Now
13 Jan 2010 / Announcements, Breaking News“The sons of men are members in a body whole related; for a single essence are they each and all created. When fortune racks with pain, one member, sorely; surely the other members cannot stand securely. O, you who from another’s troubles turn aside your view, it is not fitting they bestow the name of [...]
DHS Grants Deferred Action to Widows of US Citizens
10 Jun 2009 / Breaking NewsThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Napolitano granted yesterday a temporary immigration benefit knows as deferred action for a two year period to widows U.S. citizens and their unmarried children under 18 years old who are in the United States and, who were also married for less than two years prior to their U.S. citizen spouse’s death. Deferred action is [...]
NEWS ALERT: Gunman Opens Fire in New York Immigration Center
03 Apr 2009 / Breaking NewsNBC news reports that, A gunman entered an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton on Friday, shot several people and took dozens of hostages, according to media reports. NBC’s Pete Williams cited city and state officials as saying that as many 13 people might have been killed. But Williams cautioned that the information was very [...]
