8/13/2008- He was 17 when he came to New York from Hong Kong in 1992 with his parents and younger sister, eyeing the skyline like any newcomer. Fifteen years later, Hiu Lui Ng was a New Yorker: a computer engineer with a job in the Empire State Building, a house in Queens, a wife who is a United States citizen and two American-born sons.
8/13/2008- MELROSE PARK, Ill. - In a yellow-brick building by the railroad tracks, the Illinois Welcoming Center is the crown jewel of a broad state initiative to help immigrants blend into mainstream America.
8/12/2008- Federal immigration authorities said today that most immigrants who applied for US citizenship during a tidal wave of applications last fiscal year should be sworn in and eligible to vote by the November elections.
8/12/2008- Most immigrants who applied for US citizenship during a tidal wave of applications last year should be sworn in and eligible to vote by the November elections, Federal immigration authorities said yesterday.
8/ 4/2008- JOLOMCÚ, Guatemala — High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside the one-room house where he spends day and night on a twin bed beneath a seriously outdated calendar, Luis Alberto Jiménez has no idea of the legal battle that swirls around him in the lowlands of Florida.
8/ 1/2008- A story from the upside-down world of immigration and labor:
A slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, develops an ugly reputation for abusing animals and workers. Reports of dirty, dangerous conditions at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant accumulate for years, told by workers, union organizers, immigrant advocates and government investigators. A videotape by an animal-rights group shows workers pulling the windpipes out of living cows. A woman with a deformed hand tells a reporter of cutting meat for 12 hours a day, six days a week, for wages that labor experts call the lowest in the industry. This year, federal investigators amass evidence of rampant illegal hiring at the plant, which has been called “a kosher ‘Jungle.’ ”
8/ 1/2008- JUANA VILLEGAS is a Mexican immigrant who broke federal law. As The New York Times recently reported, she was deported in 1996, but she returned illegally to the United States. What is more troubling, however, is what happened to her in custody of law enforcement this month. Overzealous use of the law trampled decency.
7/31/2008- OUR next president faces a formidable task. He will be forced to deal with two difficult wars, an economic downturn, higher energy prices and a bankrupt federal immigration policy.
7/31/2008- # Story Highlights
# Luis Ramirez, 25, dies July 14 after beating by group of white teens
# 4 teens, all good students and athletes, charged with hate crime; two with homicide
# Justice Department's civil rights division opens criminal investigation
# Teens had been drinking; attorneys say it was a fight that got out of hand
