A Chinese immigrant died of cancer in a detention facility after authorities ignored his excruciating pain for months.
More immigration raids: ICE arrests 42 suspected illegal immigrants working at Dulles Airport in suburban Washington, D.C. and 57 at a parachute plant in Asheville, N.C.
Deportations are up 40 percent in the Pacific Northwest, due to the […]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, August 18
August 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · anti-immigration, Asian Americans, Barletta, Columbia, illegal immigrants, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kanjorski, Nick Lampson, Pete Olson, South Asians, Sugar Land
Dems Recognize South Asian Political Power
August 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Lehman Brothers’ Managing Director Romita Shetty
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has appointed four co-chairs to the DNC’s new South Asian American Leadership Council, which will organize South Asian voters—and more importantly, campaign donors—during the 2008 election. The co-chairs are high-up in the financial and technical fields: they are New York investor bankers Parag Saxena, […]
Tags: · Columbia, Democratic National Committee, Democrats, Dilawar Syed, immigrants, Kashif Zafar, Parag Saxena, Romita Shetty, South Asian American Leadership Council, South Asians
Sugar Land Tells Story of South Asian Rise
August 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Residents of Sugar Land, Texas, know they have something special. Considered the fittest and the safest city in Texas, it’s also a symbol of the increasing diversity within the Lone Star State. Its population is composed of almost equal quarters of Hispanics, blacks, whites and Asians.
Sugar Land’s South Asians, in particular, are the focus of […]
Tags: · Columbia, Nick Lampson, Pete Olson, South Asians, Sugar Land, Texas, Tom Delay
Direction Sugar Land
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments
The Congressional seat in the 22nd District of Texas has been much in the news in recent years. Former Republican Majority House Leader Tom DeLay held it for 11 years, until his indictment in 2006 (for campaign finance violations) triggered a bizarre chain of events, that included a general election with a Republican write-in candidate […]
Tags: · Columbia, election, Houston, immigrants, Immigration, Indian-Americans, Pakistani-Americans, South Asians, Sugar Land, Texas, Tom Delay