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I have blogged on this and other forums in the past about lobbying to request the U.S government to allow spouses and minor children of legal permanent residents (Green Card Holders) to come to the US while awaiting their immigration petition (I-130). I have repeatedly written to my lawmakers and to the media with little response.  About six months ago, a friend, Oliver, who was in the same predicament decided to do the unthinkable: relinquish his green card. He went back to his native land in Germany. This set me thinking of the idea: why not ask Americans who oppose...

(STNG) CHICAGO U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have deported a 36-year-old Colombian man convicted of raping, stabbing and kidnapping a female victim at knifepoint, permanently disfiguring her, in 1991. Jorge Granada-Velasquez was deported to Bogota, Colombia, on Monday night, under the escort of two government officers after recently being released from prison in Joliet, according to ICE spokeswoman Gail Montenegro. Granada-Velasquez, who entered the country in 1990 as a legal permanent resident, was convicted of holding the female victim against her will on May 15, 1991, raping her at knifepoint and stabbing her numerous times in the nose,...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to grant permanent-resident status to nearly 22,000 people nationwide and ensure that all asylum holders get the work permits they are entitled to. Issuing the mandate Thursday, U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle called the government's treatment of asylum holders "nothing short of a national embarrassment." The order stemmed from a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of 150,000 asylum holders by the American Immigration Law Foundation of Washington, D.C. Those who are to get permanent residency immediately have faced years of bureaucratic delays in upgrading their status, and Kyle called on...