| Farmers Branch council to consider revised rental ban and citywide vote | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:45:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Farmers Branch City Council will consider on Monday a measure repealing the city's controversial ban on renting apartments to undocumented immigrants, replacing it and sending the matter to voters in May. The revised ordinance would continue to bar apartment landlords from renting to undocumented immigrants, but would narrow its reach slightly in an apparent attempt to address issues raised in lawsuits filed against the city. Under the proposed measure, which was posted on the city's Web site Friday, so-called "mixed families" comprised of legal and undocumented immigrants could rent an apartment if the head of the household is a U.S. citizen or in the country legally. The new measure also would exempt minor children and people older than 62 from having to submit proof of legal status.... | |
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| | | New to the U.S., at risk for scam | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:45:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | Hundreds of immigrants across North Carolina are getting cheated out of thousands of dollars by people posing as attorneys and legal experts, according to immigration lawyers and Latino advocates. Scammers often persuade clients, typically illegal immigrants, to apply for asylum or other avenues of residency, knowing requests aren't likely to be granted, they say. "The net result is the client pays money for something that does them no service," said David Stewart, a Charlotte immigration attorney and executive director of the International House. "And, in a worst case, it gift-wraps them for the deportation people." Raids against illegal immigrants and calls for tougher enforcement of residency laws are driving more immigrants to seek legal advice.... | |
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| | | Office To Open For Kids Arrested By Immigration Officials | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:45:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | RALEIGH, N.C. -- Children arrested by immigration offcials will have a place to turn for help when a group opens a field office in North Carolina that will help the children come to the U.S. legally. Two case managers based in Raleigh will work for the North Carolina National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one of the nation's largest philanthropies. The office will help to identify these children who are arrested then released temporarily into the custody of relatives, said Gregory Chen, director of policy analysis and research for the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. that the center will represent. .... | |
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| | | Deportation breaks apart a family | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:45:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — They are ages 5 and 3. Twin boys and a dainty girl too young to know about the impoverished country of Haiti, too young to be told that Haiti is where their mother is now trapped. "My mommy, she's in the hospital," the boys often say to those who arrive at their cozy home, where photographs displayed on shelves give visitors a glimpse of a family with a happy, hopeful life. And it was. Until seven months ago. The boys point to a framed picture of a pretty woman in a yellow dress with long hair, smiling faintly for a camera. She's coming home, they say. But no one knows when. Mommy is Marie Michou Daniel, deported earlier this year for disobeying a judge's order to return to Haiti, her native country she fled nine years ago.... | |
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| | | Children growing up without deported mom | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 2:45:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | They are ages 5 and 3. Twin boys and a dainty girl too young to know about the impoverished country of Haiti, too young to be told that Haiti is where their mother is now trapped. "My mommy, she's in the hospital," the boys often say to those who arrive at their cozy home, where photographs displayed on shelves give visitors a glimpse of a family with a happy, hopeful life. .... | |
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| | | Sunday's Local News | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:45:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | The 13th Annual Northwest Ohio Komen Race for the Cure took to the streets of downtown Toledo Sunday morning -- bringing out walkers and runners to support breast cancer research and programs in Northwest Ohio's 18 counties. The race also salutes breast cancer survivors, and honors the memory of those we've lost to the disease. .... | |
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| | | Salvadoran asylum provision jeopardized | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 10:45:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON, D.C. — El Salvadorans living in Maryland could face a new obstacle to reuniting with family members under an immigration reform bill pending in the U.S. Senate. The bill is likely to do away with an injunction ensuring that El Salvadorans caught entering the country illegally have the chance to apply for asylum. That could mean bad news for Maryland’s Salvadoran population, which the U.S. Census Bureau reported at more than 75,000 in 2005 — a greater number in the state than from any other country. ‘‘We are tearing up families and we are depriving people of human rights and due process, which is the essence of the American system," said Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez, (D-Montgomery County), a native Salvadoran who has been living in the United States off and on since 1947.... | |
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| | | 'Closet' jury pool asked, can you judge an illegal fairly? | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 2:45:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | The issue of illegal immigration was a recurring theme Monday as jury selection be-gan in the murder trial of a suburban wife and the man she said lived in her closet. Martha Freeman, 41, and her former lover, Rafael DeJesus Rocha-Perez, 36, face up to life in prison if convicted of the slaying of the woman's husband, Jeffrey Freeman, who was killed in his upscale south Nashville home in April 2005. .... | |
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| | | Whitmont, Catalyst and Aoki Sakamoto Grant LLP to Present Session on Litigation Technology | | Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 10:50:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | Seattle, WA (PRWEB) September 18, 2006 -- Catalyst Repository Systems (formerly caseSHARE), Whitmont Legal Technologies and the law firm of Aoki Sakamoto Grant LLP announced that they will collaborate to present "Effective Litigation Management Using Technology" for the Seattle legal community on September 25, 2006. The event will take place from 8:30 to 4:30 at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel, 515 Madison Street in Seattle. The program has been approved by the Washington State Bar Association for 4.25 CLE credits and there is no charge to attend. .... | |
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| | | FB not ready to drop immigration plan yet | | Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 4:45:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | Farmers Branch officials haven't given up on the idea of a local ordinance limiting where illegal immigrants live and work in the city. Critics of the proposal had hoped the City Council had put the matter to rest last week with the adoption of a resolution blasting the federal government's failure to secure the borders. But the city's attorneys are crafting an ordinance that is likely to go to the City Council before the end of the year. "This issue is far from over in our city. Things are still being worked on, drafted and looked at," City Council member Tim O'Hare said. "This was by no means the end of the day." The U.S. House and Senate are deadlocked over different bills, and it appears unlikely that there will be an agreement before Congress adjourns for the election season in a few weeks.... | |
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