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The Supreme Court agreed Oct. 10 to hear two cases that will significantly impact the constitutional and human rights of deportable immigrants. The cases concern the fate of two legal immigrants scheduled to be deported for serious crimes whose home countries refuse to take them back. Currently, these immigrants reside...
These immigrants are trapped because some countries, unlike the United States, do not automatically grant citizenship and the right of return upon birth. Kestutis Zadvydas was born in a displaced persons camp in U.S.-occupied Germany shortly after World War II, to parents from a region contested by Lithuania and...
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a refugee is entitled to asylum if he or she faces "persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." The legal standard is essentially the same for refugees like...
As for George W. Bush and his stupidity: Are his little mispronunciations ("subliminable") and touches of blank panic when the discussion gets complex to be compared to such immense Shakespearean stupidities as, say, the Watergate capers - the imbecile break-ins, the moronic dirty tricks, and, above all, wily Richard Nixon...
Lexicographers are to words what INS agents are to immigrants: providers of legal residency. The words may have been in the country already and may have even gained a social foothold ("day trader," "erectile dysfunction"), but they weren't here officially, so to speak. They had to watch over their...