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Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, August 18

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 [...]

Sugar Land Tells Story of South Asian Rise

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 [...]

Direction Sugar Land

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 [...]