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The crackdown measures on illegal immigration Attorney General Jeff Sessions unveiled in Noagles, Arizona Tuesday continue to draw intense reactions spanning from abject horror to welcome relief. Professor and Washington Post contributor Daniel W. Drezner began the day by issuing a sincere apology for touching off a viral fake news scandal. Immediately after Tuesday’s announcement, Drezner tweeted that the Attorney General had described all “illegal immigrants” as “filth.” The tweet was quickly retweeted thousands of times and contributed to an outpouring of misdirected outrage at Mr. Sessions over his use of the word. In fact, as Drezner’s apology on the...

Federal officials are due to open a huge family detention centre in southern Texas that will house immigrant adults with children while they await deportation. The Texas Observer reports that federal officials are preparing to open the nation’s largest family detention centre, a 2,400-bed facility that will nearly double the current capacity to house immigrant families awaiting deportation. The centre will be developed on a sprawling 50-acre property near the town of Dilley, 70 miles south-west of San Antonio, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials told the monthly magazine. :snip: Earlier this year, federal officials opened family detention centres in...

Immigration Problem?….Bring Back Ellis Island…My Grandparents emigrated here from Ireland in 1917 and passed through the halls of Ellis Island to secure their future in the land of hope and their new Home….The United States of America…Ellis Island, From 1892 to 1954, over twelve million immigrants entered the United States through the portal of Ellis Island, a small island in New York Harbor. Ellis Island is located in the upper bay just off the New Jersey coast, within the shadow of the Statue of Liberty brought Hope to many seeking a new and better life in the Land of...

Asylum children lose plea to go free THE High Court has rejected an application by four Afghani children to be released from immigration detention, finding the detention was legal under Australian law, even if it broke international human rights conventions. The unanimous decision by the seven judges yesterday found that commonwealth laws trumped Australia's obligations under human rights conventions, and is the latest in a series of rulings that has given federal law clear precedence over agreements such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Refugees Convention. "Whether or not Australia may be in breach of...

<p>A key House Republican introduced legislation yesterday to temporarily cut legal immigration to the United States by about 20 percent as part of a broad reform of immigration laws.</p> <p>Rep. George W. Gekas, Pennsylvania Republican, the chairman of the immigration subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, said government agencies need time to restructure and to catch up with the current backlog of applications.</p>