By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Partners of Chinese women who were forced to have abortions are pressing the Supreme Court to make it easier to get asylum in the United States.
The Bush administration is resisting the male partners’ efforts to get asylum, even though the Republican congressman who wrote a 1996 asylum [...]

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By ANABELLE GARAY Associated Press Writer
IRVING, Texas (AP) _ Nearly 300 people were arrested Wednesday in immigration and identity theft raids at Pilgrim’s Pride poultry plants in five states.
More than 100 people were arrested on immigration violations in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Moorefield, W.Va., with 45 arrests in Mount Pleasant, Texas, on charges of false use [...]

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By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Bush overstepped his authority when he ordered a Texas court to grant a new hearing to a Mexican on death row for rape and murder, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.
In a case that mixes presidential power, international relations and the death penalty, the court sided with [...]

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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Writer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ A bailiff is under an internal investigation after a woman spent four days forgotten in a holding cell without food, water or a toilet.
Bailiff Jarrod Hankins put Adriana Torres-Flores in the cell to await transport to jail Thursday and didn’t let her out until Monday [...]

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By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN Associated Press Writer
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) _ A U.S. Border Patrol agent testified at his trial Tuesday that he fatally shot an illegal immigrant from Mexico because the man threatened him with a rock.
Agent Nicholas Corbett told jurors that he shot Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera, 22, in self defense after Dominguez raised [...]

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“Brangelina” have scoured the globe looking for children to make their own.  But you don’t have to be a Hollywood star to adopt.  There are no set requirements for an adoptive parent’s age, wealth, social status, beauty or home square footage.  The only requirement in most states is the level of love, understanding and guidance [...]

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By Todd Knode
Current immigration law requires deportation of the alien spouse of a US citizen if their marriage does not last past two years.  This law was intended to prevent sham marriages where a non-citizen would marry a U.S. citizen to quickly gain legal residency and then just as quickly get a divorce.  Now, the [...]

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By Todd Knode
 
Workers’ compensation laws were created to compensate an employee for injuries sustained while on the job.  One of the most debated issues in the area of worker’s compensation is whether workers who have entered the country illegally should be granted the same work place protections that legal employees have.  Some argue that illegal [...]

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By WOODY BAIRD Associated Press Writer
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ A Chinese couple who fought for seven years to get their daughter back from foster care won a judge’s approval Thursday to avoid deportation by leaving the United States voluntarily.
Shaoqiang and Qin Luo He regained custody of 8-year-old Anna Mae in July on orders from the [...]

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By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press Writer
LANSING, Mich. (AP) _ Illegal immigrants are ineligible for driver’s licenses, Michigan’s attorney general said Thursday in an opinion that affects one of the few states that have been granting licenses to undocumented residents.
Attorney General Mike Cox’s opinion is legally binding on state agencies and officers unless reversed by the [...]

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