The U.S. State Department in its latest human rights report elevated its criticism of Israel’s treatment of African refugees. The report for 2012, issued April 19, said “the treatment of refugees, asylum seekers, and irregular migrants” was a “most significant” human rights problem. That was added to the three areas singled out by the department…
A lawyer who posed as a rabbi and ran an immigration fraud mill was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday. For 13 years, The David Firm, led by “Rabbi Avraham David,” whose real name is Earl Seth David, accepted millions of dollars in fees from undocumented immigrants in return for aid in obtaining…
As momentum builds in Congress for LGBT equality, locally, in New York, nearly 100 local interfaith leaders have signed a letter to Senator Charles Schumer to include equal protection for LGBT families in immigration reform legislation. “In the last two weeks we have seen an unprecedented amount of senators step forward in favor of equal…
Is Mark Zuckerberg starting to dip his toes into the political ocean? Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg has been making headlines recently for “Lean In,” her new book on women’s leadership. It turns out her boss Zuckerberg has a side project as well: a new advocacy group. Zuckerberg is forming an organization along with other executives…
An array of Jewish groups urged President Obama and Congress to ease the path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Nineteen national groups and dozens of local groups and clergy signed on to a letter sent last Friday that was timed for Passover. “American Jews know too well the impact of restrictive immigration policies, and we…
Greek police are investigating the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party after some of its members were filmed threatening to turn immigrants “into soap” and put them in “ovens.” The investigation announced Wednesday was prompted by the broadcast Tuesday of a program on Britain’s Channel 4 News that followed Golden Dawn candidates during last year’s elections. In…
Senator Charles Schumer, a member of a bipartisan group crafting comprehensive U.S. immigration reform, urged technology firms on Tuesday to stop lobbying for a standalone bill on high-skilled immigrants, saying such narrow legislation would not pass. “You will not get a bill unless there’s a full immigration bill,” the New York Democrat said at an…
Israel’s attorney general ordered a halt to the deportation of Eritrean migrants. Yehuda Weinstein said in a letter Tuesday to the director of the Interior Ministry’s Population, Immigration and Border Authority, Amnon Ben Ami, that the deportations must be stopped until he clarifies the legal issues involved. “To prevent, God forbid, such incidents from occurring…
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