10/7/2007
8:09 AM
The Howard League is sponsoring weekly ‘Conversations’ on
Immigration throughout the Fall. Use this link to see their current
Newsletter: Current LWVHC Voter
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LAWS and Rules:
USCIS Publishes New Rule for Nonimmigrant
Victims of Criminal Activity (33KB PDF) September 5, 2007
- USCIS announces it will publish an interim rule that grants temporary
immigration benefits to certain victims of crimes who assist government
officials in investigating or prosecuting the criminal activity. This
relates to what we learned in our meeting at
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Also, from the USCIS History page: |
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Historical Immigration and Naturalization Legislation The following compilation
of federal immigration and naturalization statutes in the · Legislation from 1901-1940 (76KB PDF) · Legislation from 1941-1960 (85KB PDF) · Legislation from 1961-1980 (87KB PDF) · Legislation from 1981-1996 (91KB PDF) · Sources for Legislation (11KB PDF) · Legislation from 1790-1900 (61KB PDF) |
More from the USCIS site:
Public Laws Amending the INA
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) has been amended many times. When Congress enacts a law, it generally does not re-write the entire body of law, or even entire sections of a law, but instead adds to or changes specific words within a section. These changes are then reflected within the larger body of law.
The language changing the larger body of law is generally referred to as the "amendatory" language. Here you will find laws "amending" both the INA and the U.S. Code.
· Public Laws Amending the INA
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In a recent
issue of the
Check out this link dated April 1999:
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=365_0_4_0
The pertinent passage is:
There continue to be workplace raids. A workplace raid in Delmarva, in
March 1999 removed 46 poultry workers from Chestertown Foods Inc.--the workers
were provided to Chestertown Foods by a labor contractor, Chester Labor
Servicing Corp.--34 of the unauthorized workers were Mexican and 12 were
Indonesian.
Also from Rural Migration News: AP reporters discovered an
unauthorized 15-year old Guatemalan girl working
in a chicken processing plant; she paid $500 to be smuggled into the US, and
used false documents to get a job at Chestertown Foods in Maryland. Five of
the 40 unauthorized workers apprehended at the plant in September 1997 were
under 16. Several employers told the AP that "My job isn't to police for
the
INS." http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=247_0_3_0 in a 1998 article about child labor.
Check out the Data page on RMN: http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/data_rmn.php
Here is an article in the Baltimore Sun: Greg Garland, Federal Officers Arrest 46 Workers in Raid at Eastern Shore Plant,
BALT.
I found this source
in:
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Here is a good orientation to the
poultry industry, migration, and the environment with references to
Chestertown Foods: (when you get to
slide 20, keep going, it gets better—don’t save any
changes!!!… This was a student project for a 500 level course in
Environmental Justice at SFSU.) IMPACTS OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY FOR THE DELMARVA REGION: by Paul ...
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Here are other
interesting leads:
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Cosponsoring legislation to increase H-2B workers who are
present in the |
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Entitled, Creation of a State Debt - Kent County - Town of Chestertown
... Entitled, Task Force on the Verification of the Documentation of Migrant
Workers ... |
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Dr. Maria Boria, who lives in Chestertown,
came to the Eastern Shore over two ... Currently Dr. Boria provides medical care for migrant workers at
the ... |
Web@kent.lwvmd.org
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