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- Immigration Service -- Naturalization Service
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) oversaw and enforced the laws that apply to the entry of non-U.S. citizens, referred to as "aliens" or foreign nationals, into the United States. The INS oversaw the legal entry of non-U.S. citizens who are temporarily or permanently settling in the United States, and enforced the laws of naturalization, the process by which a foreign-born person becomes a citizen. The INS ... tackled illegal entrance into the United States, preventing receipt of benefits such as social security or unemployment by those ineligible to receive them and investigated, detainined, and deported those illegally living in the United States. - Us Immigration -- Immigration Services
August 22: A recent decision by federal immigration authorities will make it much easier for people born outside Cuba to obtain a US green card if at least one of their parents was born in Cuba. Under the decision, US Citizenship and Immigration Services will no longer require that those born outside Cuba file documents specifically saying they are Cuban citizens. Cuban consular papers saying they are children of at least one Cuban parent will be enough to prove Cuban citizenship. The July 31 decision is likely to benefit thousands of foreign nationals born abroad of Cuban parents -- particularly Venezuelans whose parents fled Cuba shortly after Fidel Castro seized power in 1959. The Cuban expatriate community in Venezuela, numbering between 25,000 and 50,000 people, is one of the largest after the one in Miami. The new green card decision is based on a Miami case in which the application of a Venezuelan born of Cuban parents was rejected by US Citizenship and Immigration Services in May 2006 on the grounds he could not conclusively prove he was a Cuban citizen. - Illegal Immigration -- Illegal Immigrants
Illegal immigration has been a relatively important factor in recent Argentine demographics. Most illegal immigrants come from Bolivia, and Paraguay, countries which border Argentina to the north. Smaller numbers arrive from Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Ukraine, Peru, Ecuador, Romania, Dominican Republic, Cuba and the People's Republic of China. The Argentine government estimates that 750,000 inhabitants lack official documents and has launched a program called Patria Grande ("Greater Homeland"), to encourage illegal immigrants to regularize their status; so far some 200,000 applications have been processed under the program. - Citizenship Test -- Immigration Services
With much fanfare, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service recently announced the introduction of a redesigned naturalization test. Trumpeted as a great improvement over the old examination, the new format will "focus on the concepts of democracy and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship." Some critics and immigrants' rights advocates have complained that the new citizenship test is too demanding, asking questions that nearly all Americans, whether native born or naturalized, would be hard-pressed to answer. But the degree of difficulty is not the only problem. - Immigration Reform -- Immigration Reform Act
Looks at the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, and examines some of the weaknesses of its design and implementation that caused it to fall short of stated goals. Lessons that could be learned from IRCA are put in today's political, social, and economic context. - Us Immigration -- United States
US Immigration -Federal -Law -Enforcement -Politics -Arizona -Minnesota -Georgia -Colorado - "Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizens." "Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an illegal immigrant from Russia." "Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held Warziniack for weeks in an Arizona detention facility with the aim of deporting him to a country he's never seen. His jailers shrugged off Warziniack's claims that he was an American citizen, even though they could have retrieved his Minnesota birth certificate in minutes and even though a Colorado court had concluded that he was a U.S. [United States] citizen a year before it shipped him to Arizona." "On Thursday, Warziniack was told he would be released. Immigration authorities were finally able to verify his citizenship." - Ellis Island -- Immigrants
Ellis Island was the principal federal immigration station in the United States from 1892 to 1954. More than 12 million immigrants were processed here. Over time, the immigration station spread over 3 connected islands with numerous structures including a hospital and contagious disease wards. It is estimated that over 40 percent of all citizens can trace their ancestry to those who came through Ellis Island. In its early years, when the greatest number of immigrants entered the country, Ellis Island mirrored the nation's generous attitude and open door policy. After passage of immigration laws in the 1920s, it was used more for "assembly, detainment, and deporting aliens," and symbolized a closing door. - Illegal -- Illegal Immigrant
Illegal immigrants are a brand of human beings with a genetic predisposition for crossing things, such as borders, most often illegally. Current advances in medical science have led to the isolation of the Illegal Immigrant gene (IIG). Perhaps in future years a new method of gene therapy will revert their genetic makeup to those of regular human beings (eg. Americans, Oscar Wilde, Klingons). It is universally accepted that all immigrants are illegal, have no desire to learn English, pursue a career in anything besides cleaning or cooking, spread crime and disease, and generally look funny and smell odd. - Illegal Immigration -- United States
Illegal immigration to the United States refers to the act of foreign nationals voluntarily resettling in the United States in violation of U.S. immigration and nationality law. Those who have entered the United States in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act are subject to deportation, often after being found to be removable in a civil removal proceeding before an Immigration Judge. Crossing the United States border without U.S. Government authorization or failing to honor the terms of authorized forms of entry, such as tourist visas, represents the most of the common means of violation. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act illegal entry into the US constitutes a misdemeanor for first-time offenders, while persons who have been shown to repeatedly enter the US can be charged as felonies. Entering the US for seasonal employment without proper government authorization is ... normally classified as illegal immigration, even when the individual plans to return to their country of origin when their employment ends. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a bureau of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is the primary federal agency tasked with enforcing the Immigration and Nationality Act. - Correctional Services -- Correctional Services Corporation
Correctional Services Corporation is a national leader in private corrections, providing a broad range of adult correctional facilities and services for federal, state and local governments. They have tailored programs to meet the requirements of a variety of inmate populations including male and female offenders, sex offenders, habitual offenders, drug and alcohol dependent offenders and offenders with special needs.