| Stop denying immigrants due process |
| The Immigration debate in the United States is not new or even of recent vintage.
President John Adams invoked the first anti-alien legislation in the Alien Act of 1798 so he could pressure the French into leaving the country. Abraham Lincoln had to work with the Know-Nothing Party, which was anti-foreigner and anti-immigrant. |
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| Shots fired as Powell visits Haiti palace |
| Gunshots were exchanged Wednesday outside Haiti's presidential palace in Port-au-Prince as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell held meetings there, U.S. State Department officials said. |
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| Patients Die as Doctors Fear Malpractice |
| Jim Masterson said his wife was left untreated for five hours and eventually died while doctors searched for an out-of-county physician who'd operate. Not a single local neurosurgeon would come in, Masterson said. |
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| Jury Awards $5.75 Million in Medical Malpractice Suit |
| In 2003, justice was finally served for 37-year-old Mr. Plasencia, the victim of severe medical malpractice. Suffering from end-stage kidney failure - unnoticed and untreated by three different physicians - Mr. Plasencia and his two minor children brought suit in 2000, recovered a verdict for a total of $5.75 million in damages from the jury. |
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| Miami judge blocks deportation of Nicaraguans |
| The deportation of thousands of Nicaraguans who came to the United States in the 1980s to escape unrest in their homeland was blocked by a federal judge Tuesday, and an attorney for the immigrants hailed the move as a "major victory." |
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| Haiti Council Names Interim Prime Minister |
| Haiti's advisory council named an interim prime minister to pave the way for elections, while U.S. Marines said they would start helping disarm the general population in a potentially volatile move after weeks of bloodshed. |
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| Aristide's exit |
| Is Jean-Bertrand Aristide a political prisoner or an exiled president telling a tale? It depends on who you believe. |
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| Aristide says U.S. deposed him in 'coup d'etat' |
| Ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says he was forced out of Haiti in a "real coup d'etat" led by the United States, in what he called a "modern way to have a modern kidnapping." "I was told that to avoid bloodshed I'd better leave," he said in an interview on CNN on Monday. |
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| U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Miami Haitian’s DUI May Halt Automatic Deportations |
| The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that a Miami man was wrongly deported to Haiti after serving two years in prison for drunken driving – an opinion that could have far-reaching impact on hundreds of similar cases involving immigrants. |
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| 81-Year-Old’s Death Called Haitian Tragedy |
| The Rev. Joseph Dantica fled to the United States nearly a month ago, seeking asylum after gangs in his neighborhood ransacked his church and threatened to kill him. Though the 81-year-old Baptist pastor escaped safely to Miami, he died days later in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities – in disputed circumstances that relatives say boiled down to mistreatment. |
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| The Disappearing Federal Courts |
| The extraordinary changes brought about by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), thoughtfully discussed here in Kari Converse's article, create substantial obstacles to immigration lawyers, criminal defense lawyers and their respective clients. |
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