Immigration

Man returns home after long road through immigrant detention

By | 02.21.12 | 9:19 am

After a year in the South Texas Detention Complex in Pearsall, Texas, Nazry Mustakim is finally at home with his wife, Hope. Nazry, or Naz, as his family and friends call him, has spent the last year navigating the complicated US immigration system, with the hopes of regularizing his immigration More…

Homeland Security budget includes funding for ‘nationwide deployment’ of Secure Communities

By Marcos Restrepo | 02.14.12 | 1:18 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The Department of Homeland Security’s 2013 budget, released Monday, includes overall cuts to the agency, but secures funding for the controversial immigration enforcement program Secure Communities.

(VIDEO) On Valentine’s Day, lingering questions about flower industry labor violations

By Marcos Restrepo | 02.14.12 | 11:50 am | More from The Florida Independent

Sixty-five percent of the roses, carnations, lilies, pompons and crysanthemums Americans give on Valentine’s Day will come through Miami International Airport from farms in Colombia, the world’s second-largest flower exporter and a country with which the U.S. recently signed a free trade agreement despite outcry from labor and social organizations over More…

Immigration strategy proposed at CPAC: ‘Let’s put a wall around the welfare state’

By Marcos Restrepo | 02.13.12 | 2:59 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Panelists at the Conservative Political Action Conference spoke Saturday about immigration measures that would uphold conservative values and attacked federal action against immigration-enforcement state laws.

Immigration restrictionist group says Florida governor is welcoming ‘illegal aliens’

By Marcos Restrepo | 02.13.12 | 8:30 am | More from The Florida Independent

A Florida immigration restrictionist group put up a billboard this week to thank Gov. Rick Scott for welcoming “illegal aliens” to Florida.

Colorado Senate GOP tests arguments against undocumented-student tuition bill

By John Tomasic | 02.13.12 | 7:00 am | More from The Colorado Independent

DENVER– In a highly anticipated debate in the Colorado Senate Friday, Republicans launched early-round attacks against a bill that aims to create a mid-level state-university tuition rate for undocumented students who have graduated from Colorado high schools. Although the bill easily weathered the GOP barbs in the Democrat-controlled chamber, passing More…

Activists praise ICE decision not to open new family detention center in Texas

By | 02.08.12 | 10:42 am

Prior to 2009, undocumented immigrant families were detained in a private prison facility in Taylor, Texas. The T. Don Hutto Residential Center, owned by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), profited from a government contract to imprison undocumented families. After the ACLU of Texas sued the T. Don Hutto Center and More…

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