Immigration Law Blamed for Reported Bullying of Hispanic Students in Alabama:

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – It was just another schoolyard basketball game until a group of Hispanic seventh-graders defeated a group of boys from Alabama.

The reaction was immediate, according to the Mexican mother of one of the winners, and rooted in the state’s new law on illegal immigration.

“They told them, `You shouldn’t be winning. You should go back to Mexico,”‘ said the woman, who spoke through a translator last week and didn’t want her name used. She and her son are in the country illegally.

Spanish-speaking parents say their children are facing more bullying and taunts at school since Alabama’s tough crackdown on illegal immigration took effect last month. Many blame the name-calling on fallout from the law, which has been widely covered in the news, discussed in some classrooms and debated around dinner tables.

Justice Department officials are monitoring for bullying incidents linked to the law.

“We’re hearing a number of reports about increases in bullying that we’re studying,” the head of the agency’s civil rights division, Thomas Perez, said during a stop in Birmingham. immigration.

To read more about this topic, click on the following link: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/22/immigration-law-blamed-for-reported-bullying-hispanic-students-in-alabama/.

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Hispanic voters: Stick with Obama or go with GOP?:

LAS VEGAS—A year before the 2012 presidential election, Hispanic voters are facing a choice. They can continue to support President Barack Obama despite being hurt disproportionately by the economic downturn or turn to Republicans at a time when many GOP presidential hopefuls have taken a hard line on immigration.

To read more about this topic, click on the following link: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/10/23/hispanic_voters_stick_with_obama_or_go_with_gop/.

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The Secret to Passing Your “Green Card” Interview:

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US dismisses Rwanda genocide immigration case:

WICHITA, Kansas — An elderly Rwandan immigrant accused of genocide reacted with joy Thursday to news that the US government has dismissed all charges against him, his lawyer said.

Lazare Kobagaya, 84, “can live out his days as a grandfather in Topeka, Kansas, and watch his great-grandchildren grow up,” defense attorney Kurt Kerns said.

“He won’t be deported. He won’t be jailed. He won’t be put on probation. His life is basically restored.”

US prosecutors had charged Kobagaya with lying about his actions during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in order to gain entry to the United States and eventual citizenship.

While he cannot be tried in a US court for crimes committed in Rwanda, Kobagaya could be deported if convicted of lying to immigration officials when he denied participating in genocide.

His family said that deportation to Rwanda is tantamount to a death sentence.

In May, jurors found that Kobagaya made a false statement on his visa application about his whereabouts in 1994.

They deadlocked over whether he misled officials on a citizenship application by denying he took part in genocide.

On Thursday, however, prosecutors filed a motion seeking to set aside the verdict and dismiss all charges against Kobagaya.

Prosecutors said they had failed to inform defense attorneys of an immigration official’s statement that Kobagaya’s mere presence in Rwanda in 1994 would not have barred him from entering the United States.

Judge Monti Belot granted the motion to throw out the case against him.

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Alabama’s immigration travesty:

YOU’D THINK that Alabama, crucible of the civil rights movement, would be wary of enacting legislation whose effect is to marginalize, ostracize and demonize people based on their ethnic or racial origin. But notwithstanding official protestations from Montgomery, that’s exactly what is likely to happen starting next Thursday when the state’s poisonous law targeting illegal immigrants takes effect.

As described by Micky Hammon, Republican majority leader of the state’s House of Representatives and the measure’s chief sponsor, the legislation was patterned after a similar bill in Arizona — but with “an Alabama flavor.” Part of that “flavor,” as Mr. Hammon explains it in a video available on YouTube, involves requiring residents to produce IDs to establish their immigration status in “every aspect of a person’s life.”

To read more about this topic, click on the following link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/alabamas-immigration-travesty/2011/08/25/gIQA0M69iJ_story.html.

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