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US IMMIGRATION

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2018
Keeping parents and children together is basic common sense
Punishing migrant children for the sins of their parents is both stupid and contrary to fundamental American ideals.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 30, 2018
The Spider-Man of Paris is just one of many
Countries can benefit by accepting hard-working migrants who have shown their mettle by surviving their perilous journeys.
JAPAN
May 21, 2018
9% rise in overstayers detained over six months puts spotlight on 'provisional release' program
The rise seems to correlate with a Justice Ministry crackdown on “provisional releases,” which detainees allegedly abuse to earn money before deportation.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 18, 2018
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ends practice that gave some immigrants reprieve from deportation
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday barred immigration judges from a once-common practice of shelving deportation cases involving some immigrants with deep ties to the United States.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 17, 2018
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lifts ban on Filipinos working in Kuwait
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered on Wednesday the "total" lifting of a ban on Filipinos working in Kuwait after the two countries agreed on measures to regulate employment following a diplomatic row over the alleged abuse of workers.
WORLD
May 17, 2018
Wrongly locked up after decades in U.K., Windrush victims speak out
Two people who came to Britain from Jamaica as children of immigrants invited to plug labor shortfalls after World War II told lawmakers Wednesday how decades later they were wrongly branded illegal immigrants and locked up.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 5, 2018
Last big group of caravan asylum-seekers cross into U.S.
Seventy men, women and children poured through a U.S. port of entry early Friday to seek asylum, the largest single group yet accepted by U.S. officials from the caravan of Central American migrants that enraged President Donald Trump.
EDITORIALS
May 5, 2018
A new status for foreign workers
The creation of a new term-limited residence status for veterans of the notorious foreign trainee program would be a welcome step forward.
WORLD
May 1, 2018
U.S. stalls over Canadian request to rewrite asylum seeker agreement
Canada wants to change a bilateral agreement to allow it to turn back thousands of asylum seekers walking across the border but the United States is not cooperating, according to a Canadian official with knowledge of the discussions.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 1, 2018
May names new interior minister to try to end immigration fiasco as she negotiates Brexit
British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed a former banker of South Asian origin as interior minister on Monday, trying to draw a line under an immigration scandal threatening her authority as she negotiates Brexit.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Apr 29, 2018
Abe walks a tightrope on Japan's foreign worker policy
The foreign proportion of Japan's population remains tiny compared to that in European countries or North America, yet the impact of the growing ranks of foreign workers is considerable.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 26, 2018
Kuwait orders Philippines ambassador to leave in dispute over reported abuse of domestic workers
Kuwait has ordered the ambassador from the Philippines to leave within a week and recalled its own envoy for consultations after embassy staff tried to "rescue" Filipino domestic workers amid reports of abuse.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2018
Japan to screen departing foreign flyers with facial recognition tech to shorten arrival process
Automated gates equipped with the technology will screen departing foreign nationals at major airports from fiscal 2019 in a bid to speed up the immigration process.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 20, 2018
'No job, no money': Life in Vietnam for immigrants deported by U.S. in violation of 2008 bilateral deal
It wasn't until Pham Chi Cuong saw the plane waiting to deport him from the United States that it sunk in that he was about to be sent back to Vietnam, the country he fled in 1993.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 17, 2018
Suicide of Indian detainee in Ibaraki prompts hunger strike of around 130 at facility: source
Man's death at an immigration control center leads many detainees at the facility to protest, supporting volunteers say.

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