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2005

Immigration Law

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The W Visa: A Legislative Proposal For Female And Child Refugees Trapped In A Post - 9/11 World, Marisa Cianciarulo Dec 2004

The W Visa: A Legislative Proposal For Female And Child Refugees Trapped In A Post - 9/11 World, Marisa Cianciarulo

Marisa S. Cianciarulo

This article addresses an urgent humanitarian crisis affecting unaccompanied or abused refugee children and widowed, divorced, abandoned or abused female heads of refugee households. Such women and children suffer the consequences of the post-9/11 U.S. refugee resettlement backlog more severely than the general refugee population. They are far more at risk of life-threatening harm such as trafficking, sexual exploitation and rape. Moreover, they are far less likely to present a threat to U.S. national security than many people who are able to secure visas to the United States quickly and with fewer background checks. Despite their vulnerability and lack of …


The Road To Internment: Special Registration And Other Human Rights Violations Of Arabs And Muslims In The United States, Ty Twibell Dec 2004

The Road To Internment: Special Registration And Other Human Rights Violations Of Arabs And Muslims In The United States, Ty Twibell

Ty Twibell

Recent and continuing rights abuses of Arabs and Muslims including detainment, deportation, torture, harassment, discrimination, limited internment and other types of human rights abuses along with Special Registration, since September 11th, have been massive and are sensational in U.S. history; it rivals in scale to past major government actions, including the Japanese internment and Palmer raids. Like the Japanese internment until after the war, there is little or no discussion of these rights abuses in the main stream or corporate media. It has stemmed from both de facto and de jure profiling of primarily the immigrant population for Arabs and …