Illegal students' aid scant; Private sources of college funds not widespread.
Byline: Jacqueline Reis WORCESTER - There are ways to help illegal immigrants pay for college; there just aren't many, school and college officials learned yesterday. Carols Saavedra, a youth organizer with the Boston-based Student Immigration Movement, told attendees at the Massachusetts Educational Opportunity Association's annual...

BI launches new visa scheme to eliminate red tape, fixers.
Byline: JUN RAMIREZ Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Marcelino Libanan announced yesterday the launch of an innovative visa issuance program designed to cut red tape and eliminate "fixers'' in the agency. Libanan said the visa issuance made simple (VIMS) project, which will be launched early...

Enticing illegal aliens.
ITEM: "The Senate's failure to pass a broad immigration bill was a major political blow to President Bush," said a CBS/AP story on June 7. "Also in the loser column was the Senate's Democratic leadership.... The legislation now faces a very uncertain future. [Senate Democratic leader Harry] Reid said...

Employers must begin using revised I-9s: no match rule undergoes revision.
As of December 26, 2007, employers are required to use the newly revised I-9 form, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Employers who do not use the revised I-9 form on or after that date will be subject to all applicable fines and penalties under the...

Pinol happy over outcome of case against Korean.
Byline: Sarah Jane R. Hilomen DAVAO CITY -- Vice Gov. Manny Pinol of North Cotabato is pleased by the outcome of the deportation proceedings last Thursday at the Davao regional office of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) against Young Yong Yun, a Korean national, with...

5 BI officials suspended for Duc escape.
Byline: GABRIEL S. MABUTAS Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez placed yesterday under preventive suspension five Immigration officials and two Immigration confidential agents for the escape of Vietnamese-American Vo Van Duc. Gonzalez identified them as Immigration Associate Commissioner Teodoro Delarmente, lawyer Benjamin Kalaw, chief, Bureau of Immigration...

Around The Nation.
11 Indians in wanted list of BI for fake visas Eleven Indians are now in the wanted list of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) after they were caught with fake resident visas while applying for their I-Cards with the bureau, it was learned yesterday. BI...

Chew Heong v. United States: Chinese Exclusion and the Federal Courts.
This article is adapted from Chew Heong v. United States: Chinese Exclusion and the Federal Courts, written by Lucy Salyer, associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, for inclusion in the Federal Judicial Center's project, "Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History." For additional...

Loopholes in case may aid Haneef's release.
Byline: Manoj Mitta NEW DELHI: The tide seems to be turning in favour of Mohammed Haneef as serious infirmities have come to light in the terror case made out against him by Australian law enforcers. The latest revelation made by ABC Radio questions the credibility...

Defining strangers: human rights, immigrants and the foundations for a just society.
[This article explores the extent to which the law's treatment of immigrants has shaped notions of human rights in Australia. It examines the ramifications of the choice made at Federation not to include Australian citizenship in the Australian Constitution, but rather to confer power on the Parliament to legislate...