Word: chishty
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Muzaffar Chishti, director of the Immigration Project for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, tried to explain cultural resistance to immigration...
...debate on immigration has always been emotional," Chishti said. "The issues is not whether we are letting in too many people, but are we letting in too many of the wrong people...
...take from six months to two years; if it rules against the sheik, he can appeal to a | federal district court, and on up to the Supreme Court. And all this would be notwithstanding his additional claim for political asylum. "It takes so long," notes immigration expert Muzaffar Chishti, "because of our due- process system." Depending on one's stand on immigration and the law, that system is either a blessing or a curse. In Abdel Rahman's case, the smartest thing may be to leave him in New Jersey, under surveillance. Who knows how many more terrorist plots might...
...border crossing. Illegals without fake documents often work instead at newly proliferating sweatshops. A recent Government study estimates that as many as 7,000 sweatshops operate in New York City and Los Angeles alone. "Before IRCA, at least we had the semblance of competition in the workplace," says Muzaffar Chishti, an immigration specialist with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. "Now, many illegal workers are segregated to sweatshops where employers hold them at their mercy...