Beirut :: Lebanon
| 1 day ago
Bureau of Immigration prevented seven female Filipinos from travelling to Lebanon as tourists. The seven Filipinas were preparing to board a flight to Singapore, from where they were scheduled to fly to Lebanon. The illegal recruitment agency that promised...
Tags: immigration, Lebanon, Philippines, migrant workers
Cedar Rapids :: IA :: USA
| 5 days ago
The bankrupt Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville should be back in operation early next week, its new leader said today. The plant, which used to be the area's leading employer, has been in decline since a May immigration raid, and it suspended...
Tags: immigration, kosher meat
Auckland :: New Zealand
| 8 days ago
She stepped down from her job as the investigations were launched. Thompson has worked in the upper echelons of government, first with Winston Peters when he was Treasurer.
Tags: immigration, immigration boss, Mary Anne Thompson, defend fraud, fraud charged
Cedar Rapids :: IA :: USA
| 11 days ago
Iowa A federal grand jury in Iowa has returned a 12-count indictment against a kosher slaughterhouse and some of its employees on charges ranging from conspiracy and harboring illegal immigrants to bank fraud. The Agriprocessors plant in Postville was...
Tags: slaughterhouse, immigration, kosher meat, Iowa, homeland security, Sholom Rubashkin, Postville, Judge Jon Scoles, immigration raid, grand jury, meatpacking plant
Postville :: IA :: USA
| 13 days ago
More than six months after the federal immigration raid that threw this town into turmoil, county and city governments are taking steps to provide relief to displaced workers. City clerk Darcy Radleff said today that she and Mayor Robert Penrod will meet...
Tags: immigration, Postville
Mifflintown :: PA :: USA
| 14 days ago
Agriprocessors, out of money to continue operations, is seeking court approval to spend cash already obligated to its bank to meet payroll and other needs. The kosher meat processor temporarily suspended production this week in Postville because of a...
Tags: immigration, kosher meat
Chimaltenango :: Guatemala
| 18 days ago
Postville, Iowa — When Gabriel Calicio was released from prison, five months after being arrested on immigration charges at the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, his only possession was the prison-issued blue jumpsuit he was wearing. Calicio, 21,...
Tags: slaughterhouse, immigration
Des Moines :: IA :: USA
| 19 days ago
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials raid the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, Agriprocessors Inc., in Postville, Iowa, and detain nearly 400 illegal immigrants. It was the largest single site operation of its kind in the United States...
Tags: immigration, kosher meat, immigration raided
Seattle :: WA :: USA
| 25 days ago
The spike in deportations reflects the continuing nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration by ICE and other federal agencies. Nationwide, the number of deportations in the period increased from 290,000 to more than 345,000, about a 17 percent increase....
Tags: deportation, immigration, illegal immigrants, immigrants, illegal, crime, illegal immigration, ICE, percent increase, ended sept
Dhāri :: India
| 26 days ago
Department of Immigration for moving swiftly and co-operatively to assess the protection claims of 26 Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers on Christmas Island. Initiatives that include tree-planting proposals, tearing down fences and sending the kids to...
Tags: immigration, asylum, asylum seekers
