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Fast-Track Deportations

Thousands are being deported without a chance to appear before an immigration judge.

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Kate Everson

September, 2012
Fostering victims of violence
Five days before his birthday, an 18-year-old was walking down the street on his way to play basketball.Around 7 p.m., shots rang out, and he was hit and left there to die. A passerby found him, and he was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead of a gunshot wound to the head.The 18-year-old, whose name is withheld in an official report, is among 63 gun-related homicide victims whose...
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July, 2012
Chinese top Chicago asylum caseload
The news: Days before Hilary Rodham Clinton’s May arrival in China, blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng sought protection at the U.S. Embassy after escaping house arrest. Instead of asylum, he was granted a visa and passport to study law at New York University.Behind the news: Chicago’s seven immigration judges heard 2,844 asylum cases and granted asylum to 1,621 seekers between fiscal years...
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