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News Source: The News & Observer
| about 1 year ago
Charlotte has been chosen as a pilot city for a federal "self-deport" program to encourage fugitive illegal immigrants to turn themselves in. Illegal immigrants who have previously been ordered to leave the country have from Tuesday to Aug. 22 to...
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News Source: Honolulu Advertiser
| about 1 year ago
Starting next week, a new pilot program will allow illegal immigrants who have ignored deportation orders to turn themselves in without being arrested. In exchange for surrendering, the immigrants will get up to three months to make arrangements for...
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News Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram
| about 1 year ago
Julie Myers, assistant secretary of Homeland Security who heads Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said her agency is targeting employers that attract illegal workers. "It’s a much different landscape than it was a couple of years ago," she said.
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News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 year ago
The self-deportation program, called "Operation Scheduled Departure," gives immigrants a chance to avoid the risk of being caught and jailed, have up to 90 days to put their affairs in order and in some cases leave with some family members, said...
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News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
The Bush administration is inviting people who have ignored orders to leave the country to surrender at immigration offices and leave voluntarily, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Wednesday...Immigration and Customs Enforcement,...
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News Source: Miami Herald
| about 1 year ago
The Bush administration is inviting people who have ignored orders to leave the country to surrender at immigration offices and leave voluntarily, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Wednesday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,...
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News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| about 1 year ago
The Department of Homeland Security is due to announce today a new strategy to deal with illegal immigration: self-deportation. The pilot program, christened "Operation Scheduled Departure," will offer illegal immigrants – primarily those who have...
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News Source: Houston Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
That's the latest government strategy in its ongoing effort to dramatically reduce the nation's ballooning population of illegal immigrants. Scheduled to be unveiled next week, it was announced Sunday by Julie Myers, director of U.S. Immigration and...
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News Source: Houston Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
The official leading the Bush administration's election-year crackdown on undocumented immigrants got an earful Tuesday from immigrants' advocates tied to the Roman Catholic Church who dubbed the effort ''enforcement only." Julie Myers, assistant...