NEW YORK, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Immigration Equality, a national not-for-profit organization, announced today that it will honor five national law firms for their pro bono work on behalf of the organization's clients, who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people seeking political asylum in the United States. The firms will be honored at the organization's annual Safe Haven Awards in New York City on Tuesday, May 31st. Nearly forty top law firms belong to our pro bono program, and together they won asylum for more than one hundred Immigration Equality clients last year. In a very impressive field, these five firms stand out," said Rachel B. Tiven, the group's executive director. "Each firm went above and beyond to provide top-notch legal counsel to people fl...
Applications are being solicited for the Tibor and Anna Doby Veteran Support Fund at the Maine Community Foundation. Grants of up to $25,000 will be made to help organizations deliver programs and services to veterans and their families living in rural regions of Maine. Proposals must be submitted by May 15. Guidelines are available at mainecf.org. Last year, the fund gave $118,907 in grants to seven Maine agencies working to support rural veterans and their families. Tibor and Anna Doby escaped the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Through the trials they endured before being granted political asylum in the United States, they came to know firsthand the devastating effects of war. Over time the couple developed an interest in American soldiers who served in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. F...
To be a member of the Guilavogui family in 2000 in the West African nation of Guinea was akin to a death sentence. The only way out for relatives was political asylum in the United States or Canada.
Chinese dissident Yu Jie said Wednesday that security officials in Beijing tortured him to the brink of death because of his political opinions and friendship with another prominent pro- democracy advocate, Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. In his first public remarks since he fled China with his wife and son last week, Mr. Yu said he may seek political asylum in the United States and will continue to speak out against the "increasingly fascist, barbaric and brutal regime" in China.
Karmakar's persecution by radical Islamists and his long record of promoting the rights of religious minorities were both so well- documented that his request for political asylum in the United States was approved just 13 days after he applied for it His case officer, he says, told him it was the fastest approval she'd ever granted. In September, the Department of Homeland Securitywhich oversees Immigration Services- told human rights advocates that about 400 people who had come to the U.S. from places around the world, and had been granted the protection of asylum or refugee status, were now being denied green cards because of information contained in their asylum applications. Many of the refugees had taken up arms against their leaders in U.S.\n When questioned as to whether the go...
A former Highlands High School teacher accused of genocide in his native Rwanda lost the first round in his battle to seek political asylum in the United States. Federal immigration Judge Elizabeth Kessler of Baltimore denied Leopold Munyakazi's request for asylum, his attorney, Ophelia Calderon, said Friday.
When Janet Cepeda was a journalist in her native Colombia, she got death threats for the articles she wrote. Eventually Cepeda was granted political asylum in the United States. For a year now, she's been living in Utah. She writes for La Prensa, a local Spanish language newspaper. Like millions of immigrants around the world, Cepeda left loved ones behind. She is divorced from her husband -- but every month she sends money to her mother, who is raising Cepeda's daughter, Lesli.
In New York, where many asylum claims are filed, immigrants peddle personal accounts ripped from international headlines, con artists prey on the newly arrived and nonlawyers offer misguided advice. The man caught on the wiretap urged his immigrant client to fabricate a tragic past if he wanted asylum in the United States. To say that he was a victim of political repression in Albania. Or police brutality. Or even a blood feud.
In 2007, six Mexican journalists were killed. So far in 2008, two journalists have lost their lives. CPJ calls Mexico one of the world's most dangerous countries for the press. In 2008, death threats against journalists rose dramatically, [Carlos Lauria] said. Since few of the death threats or murders are ever prosecuted, Lauria predicted that more journalists like [Emilio Soto Gutierrez] will be seeking political asylum in the United States as the violence continues to worsen. Not long ago Monterrey was considered one of the safest cities in Mexico," Lauria said. "It's a very bad sign for Mexico when people say they don't feel safe there anymore.
The U.S. House of Representatives last week approved the so- called Real ID Act, legislation aimed at toughening border security and overhauling the nation's immigration system. But House Resolution 418 goes too far, and it includes provisions that should alarm any American concerned about the state of freedom in this country. It has become all too common in the post-9/11 era for the government to tread on civil liberties in the name of safety and security. H.R. 418 continues a trend started with the USA Patriot Act. The legislation would create nationwide standards for driver's licenses -- a de facto national identification system -- and tighten requirements for obtaining political asylum in the United States. It would also force the government to complete a disputed wall along the Mex...
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