IMMIGRATION SOLUTIONS; Lawsuit filed to correct inappropriate medical exam questioning and misapplication of the law at the US Embassy in Manila, Philippines.
Byline: Robert L. Reeves Reeves & Associates, an immigration law firm, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of State and the US Embassy in Manila, Philippines to stop improper questioning of individuals concerning experimental use of drugs in order to impose a lifetime bar for qualified...

Association of American Law Schools to Address Immigration Issues at 2007 Annual Meeting in January.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The debate over immigration issues in the United States will be a key subject of discussion at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting from January 3-6, 2007 in Washington, D.C. Over 3,500 law faculty are expected to attend the conference and...

Federalism on ice: state and local enforcement of federal immigration law.
I. INTRODUCTION In October 2002, Lee Malvo, a young illegal alien from Jamaica, who along with John Allen Muhammed became known as the "D.C. Snipers," went on a deadly shooting spree in the Washington, D.C. area. (1) From 1996 to 1999, Angel Resendiz, an illegal immigrant later...

The ethics of immigration: an exchange.
William W. Chip Until very recently, serious conversation about immigration was all but banished from mainstream American discourse. This consensus of silence, imposed by opinion makers who found the topic distasteful or inconvenient, was undone by a number of recent events--including the sudden rise of immigration as...

Immigrant women's health a casualty in the immigration policy war.
AS THE IMMIGRATION POLICY BATTLES RAGE in legislatures and presidential primaries and state elections throughout the country, there's been little attention to a serious casualty in these skirmishes: immigrant women's health. Immigrant women are facing serious threats to their health and, in the most dire cases, have even lost...

Dialectics of humanitarian immigration and national identity in Canadian public discourse.
Abstract Humanitarian immigration is an important element in the construction of Canada's identity as a liberal and compassionate country. Drawing on Hegelian dialectics, a discourse analysis of newspaper articles published between 1996 and 2001 examines processes of national identity formation through humanitarian immigration in the media. My...

The rights of irregular migrants.
In the contemporary politics of immigration, few issues are more contentious than the question of how democratic states should respond to the presence of people who have settled without official authorization. Too often discussions of this topic go nowhere because the participants adopt radically different starting points and make...

2 foreigners in rice trading deported.
Bureau of Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan yesterday said that Zeny Uy and Ting Ting Li were deported last Tuesday aboard a China Southern Airlines flight to Xiamen, China. It will be recalled that the President herself accompanied a team of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents in...

OFW seeks arrest, deportation of Hollander.
Byline: Ali Macabalang and Bong Reblando STA. ROSA CITY, Laguna -- A battered overseas Filipina worker is seeking the arrest and deportation of her Dutchman fiancee whom she had accused of being rude against Filipinos. In a follow-up letter-complaint she had sent to Immigration Commissioner...

BI advises aliens on update of stay.
Byline: JUN RAMIREZ The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has advised departing foreign tourists that they can update their stay only at the bureau's main and field offices and not at the airports or their ports of exit. A memorandum order issued last week by BI...