CAIR-CA: Immigration Issues Keep Boy from Family
A teenage boy, separated from his parents and trapped in a one-bedroom apartment for four years.It sounded terrible.Yet that was what seemed to have happened to Muhamed Kamal, a 15-year-old boy who fled Iraq’s violence only to be separated from his family in Jordan and then left behind.Four years on, in another small apartment, in […]
New Immigration Screening Targets Muslims
In the six and a half years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, federal law-enforcement agencies have secretly established profiling techniques to screen immigrants based on their nationalities, protocols that critics charge encourage the unjustified targeting of Muslims. The profiling, described in a February 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by McClatchy Newspapers, shows […]
Immigration Issue Fizzles Again
[Joshua Hoyt is Executive Director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights] One of the rituals of going after that elusive big-game target, the “Middle-America White Male Voter,” is the hunting trip. The day after Christmas, Mike Huckabee tromped through the Iowa fields with a contingent of newspeople. Huckabee’s hunting party bagged three […]
CAIR-MI: Immigration Issue Heats Up
Michigan’s most diverse city is wading into the emotional national debate about what role local police should play in enforcing federal immigration laws.As Congress mulls what to do with those illegally in the country, Hamtramck officials are preparing an ordinance to forbid police and other city officials from asking anyone about their immigration status unless […]
CAIR-MD/VA: Toddler Denied Immigration Arrives in D.C.
After two years not being allowed entry to the U.S., the 3-year-old son of a Muslim U.S. citizen will be allowed by immigration officials to join his family in Virginia. A spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations says the boy and his father arrived at Reagan National Airport about 10:30 p.m. Monday. Abdeloihab […]
CAIR: Immigration Bias Concerns U.S. Muslims
CAIR: IMMIGRATION BIAS CONCERNS U.S. MUSLIMS After a year’s search, worshippers at the Masjid Ibraheem, or Mosque of Abraham, in Newark finally found the right religious leader. Jamal Zahabi is dedicated to the community and has found time to teach prison inmates. A Canadian citizen, originally from Lebanon, he has a knack for bringing together […]
CAIR-AZ: Do Muslim Names Lead to Immigration Delays?
CAIR-AZ: RED TAPE SNAGS ID CHECKS It was springtime when Asad Khan and his wife, Uzma, drove from their Gilbert home to Phoenix to be interviewed by government officials as part of their quest to become U.S. citizens. On the same day, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services checked off “box A” on Uzma Khan’s application. […]
CAIR-AZ Civil Rights Director Discusses Immigration Delays
CAIR-CA: New Immigration Reform Group Forms
CAIR-CA: NEW IMMIGRATION REFORM GROUP FORMS A diverse group of religious leaders, labor unions, legal advocates and community leaders joined Thursday to call on Congress to pass immigration reform that would help legalize illegal immigrants, keep migrant families together and protect immigrants’ rights. The group, called the Immigrant Rights Consortium of San Diego County, is […]
CAIR-AZ Hosts ‘Immigration Night’ at Phoenix Mosque
CAIR-AZ HOSTS ‘IMMIGRATION NIGHT’ AT PHOENIX MOSQUE (PHOENIX, AZ, 6/7/07) – Some 100 people turned out June 1 for an “Immigration Night” organized by the Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-AZ) and hosted by Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. At the event, a representative of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) […]