Word: deported
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large number of illegals may hang back, at least initially. Some are skeptical: they cannot believe that the remorseless federal agency they have long feared is suddenly offering them the keys to the country. They are worried that INS will use the information gathered from their applications to deport them if they fail to qualify for legal status. (The law specifically forbids the use of information gathered for legalization for any other purpose: INS, for example, cannot turn over tax information on aliens to the Internal Revenue Service.) Another reason for hesitation is that amnesty will not extend to family...
...court was looking only at the relatively small number of aliens who ask for asylum annually; applications recently have averaged 20,000 a year. Three years ago, it ruled that portions of the Immigration and Nationality Act permit the Government to deport certain aliens who fail to show a "clear probability" that they will be persecuted in their home country. Under another section of that law, many such aliens have been allowed to seek from the Justice Department a discretionary grant of asylum. But this alternative was of little practical benefit because in order to be eligible, they were often...
...real terror in California for Mexican migrants is not their "opulent" employers, but the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The INS uses harsh policies and a heavy hand to keep Mexican migrants out and deport them if they manage to enter. In this way the INS, like Miss Grossman, forgets the economic necessity which drives both employers and employed...
...Centro Presente's clients has ever been deported. "So long as a refugee has a political asylum case in progress, they can't deport him. And when we lose, then we can appeal the case, and so long as the appeal is still in process, they have to let him stay," Gordon says. "We appeal all the cases. The appeals process is our only weapon--we are able to use the slow judicial process to buy time...
...officials are clearly unhappy about the way the "boat people" entered their country, they indicated last week that the new arrivals will not be turned away. The Tamils have been issued work permits and granted permission to remain for at least a year. Immigration officers say they will not deport the castaways to Sri Lanka so long as civil strife continues. Says Canadian Immigration Consultant Dennison Moore: "It appears that under any circumstance, they're here to stay...