Imimigration Law News

Immigration issues resurface on some state ballots
By JULIA SILVERMAN Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - In a high school classroom, Xavier Chavez is trying to teach a group of restless teenagers about Manifest Destiny - the 19th century belief that the United States was divinely fated to stretch from sea to shining sea.

13 dead migrants found on boat near Canary Islands
By CIARAN GILES Associated Press Writer MADRID, Spain (AP) - The Interior Ministry says 13 people have been found dead aboard a packed migrant boat heading for Spain's Canary Islands. The ministry says there were 46 survivors on the boat that arrived Wednesday at Puerto de Arguineguin on the south of Gran Canaria Island.

Judges refuse to rehear W. Pa. ex-Nazi guard case
By RAMESH SANTANAM Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) - A federal appeals court has refused to rehear the deportation case of a retired western Pennsylvania steelworker who served as a Nazi concentration camp guard during World War II. The only recourse now for Anton Geiser, a naturalized U.S. citizen, is to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Defense contractor accused of human trafficking
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Defense contractor KBR Inc. and a Jordanian subcontractor are accused of human trafficking in a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles. The suit alleges 12 Nepali men were being transported to Iraq against their will when they were killed in an insurgent attack.

ICE: Nearly 600 detained in Mississippi plant raid
By HOLBROOK MOHR Associated Press Writer LAUREL, Miss. (AP) - The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally.

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