Migrants’ Rights under the Integration Abroad ActIn the past years, the authorities in the Netherlands have introduced a series of measures with the stated aim of better integrating its migrant population. One of these measures is the integration test administered to would-be family migrants from some countries before they can join spouses or family members in the Netherlands. This report documents how the overseas integration test is discriminatory, in that citizens from certain countries are exempt altogether, and the test, coupled with increased financial requirements, targets primarily would-be family migrants from two of the three largest “non- western” migrant communities in the Netherlands – Moroccans and Turks.
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That's Migrants’ Rights under the Integration Abroad Act .The state has a legitimate interest in controlling immigration, and European human rights law provides no absolute right to live as a family in a particular country. But a significant delay in family reunification or formation can violate the right to family life for the family member living in the Netherlands if the strength of ties that person has in the country makes it unreasonable to give up that life and move elsewhere to be together with his and her family member, especially if the person was born in the Netherlands and/or has lived there for a significant portion of his or her life.
5/14/2008
Feds say North Texas family ran fraudulent marriage ring
A 70-year-old Fort Worth woman has been identified by federal authorities as the ringleader of a three-generation family fraud ring that arranged fake marriages to U.S. citizens so foreigners could get legal permanent residence status and later U.S. citizenship.
Maria Refugia Camarillo, known as "Cuca," according to a federal indictment, "acted as the main contact for [immigrants] interested in entering into a fraudulent marriage with a member of the conspiracy." One defendant, Diana DeLeon, 34, was married at least 24 times, according to the 29-count indictment.
Camarillo, DeLeon and nine co-conspirators were arrested Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with the 10th arrested in Corpus Christi. Four others also indicted are still at large in a criminal organization that dates to the 1970s, ICE officials reported.
Camarillo could not be reached for comment.
The 12 people arrested made their initial court appearance Tuesday in Dallas before U.S. Magistrate Judge William Sanderson, who released them on bail, according to Kathy Colvin, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Dallas.
According to the indictment, immigrants paid $10,000 to $12,000 each to the ring to marry U.S. citizens.
After being married they could apply for legal permanent residency, which would allow them to remain in the United States indefinitely.
The indictment says the ring also falsified Social Security numbers and other documents that were presented to immigration officials as valid.
Camarillo had a business card with contact information for her son and told clients that marriages could be arranged within days of payment, according to the indictment.
People who referred clients to the ring received $200.
Under U.S. law, citizens petitioning for legal residency for their wife or husband must show proof that the marriage is real, such as documentation of joint bank accounts or jointly owned property. Sometimes even "photographs of the couple at the wedding" are accepted as proof, according to the indictment.
Although the couples in the marriage ring represented that they were living together, "they did not reside together as husband and wife and had no intention of residing together," the indictment says.
http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/641462.html
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This information tells us that many people liked to move into American for serial reason, such as political and economic. Because usa has wide unlimited working place and food health benefits, This is the reason for people moving However, It’s illegal to move to other country for any reason, special the marriages. Because marriage is the legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife. The citizens are easy to get according to this article. Therefore, the government should take care about that immigrant moving rate to USA. these people must be bred to be lawless opportunists. They can come up with every con known to man, rather than trying to do things in a legal and appropriate manner. Nothing they say can justify their actions. No amount of pulling at our heartstrings or wailing and blubbering will exonerate their less than stellar actions.
Maria Refugia Camarillo, known as "Cuca," according to a federal indictment, "acted as the main contact for [immigrants] interested in entering into a fraudulent marriage with a member of the conspiracy." One defendant, Diana DeLeon, 34, was married at least 24 times, according to the 29-count indictment.
Camarillo, DeLeon and nine co-conspirators were arrested Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with the 10th arrested in Corpus Christi. Four others also indicted are still at large in a criminal organization that dates to the 1970s, ICE officials reported.
Camarillo could not be reached for comment.
The 12 people arrested made their initial court appearance Tuesday in Dallas before U.S. Magistrate Judge William Sanderson, who released them on bail, according to Kathy Colvin, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Dallas.
According to the indictment, immigrants paid $10,000 to $12,000 each to the ring to marry U.S. citizens.
After being married they could apply for legal permanent residency, which would allow them to remain in the United States indefinitely.
The indictment says the ring also falsified Social Security numbers and other documents that were presented to immigration officials as valid.
Camarillo had a business card with contact information for her son and told clients that marriages could be arranged within days of payment, according to the indictment.
People who referred clients to the ring received $200.
Under U.S. law, citizens petitioning for legal residency for their wife or husband must show proof that the marriage is real, such as documentation of joint bank accounts or jointly owned property. Sometimes even "photographs of the couple at the wedding" are accepted as proof, according to the indictment.
Although the couples in the marriage ring represented that they were living together, "they did not reside together as husband and wife and had no intention of residing together," the indictment says.
http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/641462.html
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This information tells us that many people liked to move into American for serial reason, such as political and economic. Because usa has wide unlimited working place and food health benefits, This is the reason for people moving However, It’s illegal to move to other country for any reason, special the marriages. Because marriage is the legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife. The citizens are easy to get according to this article. Therefore, the government should take care about that immigrant moving rate to USA. these people must be bred to be lawless opportunists. They can come up with every con known to man, rather than trying to do things in a legal and appropriate manner. Nothing they say can justify their actions. No amount of pulling at our heartstrings or wailing and blubbering will exonerate their less than stellar actions.
5/13/2008
Immigrants march in U.S. but rallies lose steam?
Thousands of immigrants marched through cities across the United States on Thursday, but smaller crowds suggested their cause had lost momentum in this election year.
5/11/2008
Immigration Enforcement Funds Slashed in Arizona
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County (Photo: Rick Scibelli Jr. for The New York Times)
A fight has erupted in Arizona, pitting the state’s governor against a county lawman known as “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” and the hunt for illegal immigrants against the hunt for felons on the loose.
According to several reports, Gov. Janet Napolitano has signed an executive order shifting $1.6 million out of the budget for a task force set up to unravel human smuggling networks in the state, and reassigning the money to a new effort to round up tens of thousands of fugitives.
The cutbacks were not shared across Arizona’s 15 counties. Rather, they were aimed at just one county — Maricopa — and its controversial sheriff, Joe Arpaio.
In the 1990’s, he made national headlines for erecting a tent-city jail serving green bologna sandwiches. More recently, his methods of cracking down on illegal immigration have cast him as both hero and demagogue — for the same reasons.
“Does this mean that serving felony warrants is more or less important than illegal-immigration enforcement?” Jeanine L’Ecuyer, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office, told The Arizona Republic. “I can’t make that comparison. The net result is the same.”
Still, it seems that Sheriff Arpaio has exhausted the patience of Governor Napolitano, whose office is sending signals that the sheriff earned this slight, which will leave 15 members of his staff without a budget line for the moment. From The Phoenix New Times, a paper that has a long-running feud with Mr. Arpaio, as The New York Times’s David Carr reported on Monday:
Dennis Burke, the governor’s chief of staff, tells New Times that Arpaio’s go-it-alone attitude, combined with the need to round up fugitive felons, led to Napolitano’s decision.
Sheriff’s officials “were supposed to be sharing intel with us, they were supposed to be coordinating with us, and the Sheriff’s Office was thinking it was just a blank check,” Burke says.
The governor’s spokeswoman, Jeanine l”Ecuyer, related a different criticism to another Arizona paper, The East Valley Tribune, saying that Sheriff Arpaio’s “crime suppression sweeps” played a role:
[Ms. L’Ecuyer] acknowledged Tuesday the decision not to renew Arpaio’s grant was based, at least in part, on the sweeps.
“It’s part of the whole situation that we’re looking at,” she said. “You can’t be that oblivious to what’s going on in the world.”
The governor has avoided a public confrontation with the sheriff, though this flashpoint has led him to emphatically invite one. At a news conference on Tuesday, he had no shortage of vitriol. According to Sheriff Arpaio, “dirty politics” led to the “despicable” decision, which is “a ruse” and “an effort to fool the public,” The Associated Press reported.
“A felony-warrant task force,” he said, “is a cover-up for taking away grant money, my money given to me by the Legislature, to fight illegal immigration.”
He may have a point, Arizona House Speaker Jim Weiers told The Tribune. (He and the sheriff are both Republicans, by the way, as is the president of the state senate, Tim Bee; the governor is a Democrat.) Mr. Weiers questioned the governor’s power to strip state funds, and the Maricopa County Attorney is assessing whether any laws were broken. (Maricopa County includes Phoenix, the state capital.)
With just a few days left before the state grant money leaves his coffers, Sheriff Arpaio said that his efforts against illegal immigration would remain as strong as ever. “Nothing changes,” he told The Arizona Republic.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/immigration-enforcement-funds-slashed-in-arizona/?scp=1&sq=IMMIGRANT&st=cse
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Illegal are from many other countries. Racist never changed, we need to fight against illegal immigration and criminal. Most businesses are illegal for the payment for different color of people. If these laws are passed it would probably close most businesses and create a lot of the illegal immigration problem.
A fight has erupted in Arizona, pitting the state’s governor against a county lawman known as “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” and the hunt for illegal immigrants against the hunt for felons on the loose.
According to several reports, Gov. Janet Napolitano has signed an executive order shifting $1.6 million out of the budget for a task force set up to unravel human smuggling networks in the state, and reassigning the money to a new effort to round up tens of thousands of fugitives.
The cutbacks were not shared across Arizona’s 15 counties. Rather, they were aimed at just one county — Maricopa — and its controversial sheriff, Joe Arpaio.
In the 1990’s, he made national headlines for erecting a tent-city jail serving green bologna sandwiches. More recently, his methods of cracking down on illegal immigration have cast him as both hero and demagogue — for the same reasons.
“Does this mean that serving felony warrants is more or less important than illegal-immigration enforcement?” Jeanine L’Ecuyer, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office, told The Arizona Republic. “I can’t make that comparison. The net result is the same.”
Still, it seems that Sheriff Arpaio has exhausted the patience of Governor Napolitano, whose office is sending signals that the sheriff earned this slight, which will leave 15 members of his staff without a budget line for the moment. From The Phoenix New Times, a paper that has a long-running feud with Mr. Arpaio, as The New York Times’s David Carr reported on Monday:
Dennis Burke, the governor’s chief of staff, tells New Times that Arpaio’s go-it-alone attitude, combined with the need to round up fugitive felons, led to Napolitano’s decision.
Sheriff’s officials “were supposed to be sharing intel with us, they were supposed to be coordinating with us, and the Sheriff’s Office was thinking it was just a blank check,” Burke says.
The governor’s spokeswoman, Jeanine l”Ecuyer, related a different criticism to another Arizona paper, The East Valley Tribune, saying that Sheriff Arpaio’s “crime suppression sweeps” played a role:
[Ms. L’Ecuyer] acknowledged Tuesday the decision not to renew Arpaio’s grant was based, at least in part, on the sweeps.
“It’s part of the whole situation that we’re looking at,” she said. “You can’t be that oblivious to what’s going on in the world.”
The governor has avoided a public confrontation with the sheriff, though this flashpoint has led him to emphatically invite one. At a news conference on Tuesday, he had no shortage of vitriol. According to Sheriff Arpaio, “dirty politics” led to the “despicable” decision, which is “a ruse” and “an effort to fool the public,” The Associated Press reported.
“A felony-warrant task force,” he said, “is a cover-up for taking away grant money, my money given to me by the Legislature, to fight illegal immigration.”
He may have a point, Arizona House Speaker Jim Weiers told The Tribune. (He and the sheriff are both Republicans, by the way, as is the president of the state senate, Tim Bee; the governor is a Democrat.) Mr. Weiers questioned the governor’s power to strip state funds, and the Maricopa County Attorney is assessing whether any laws were broken. (Maricopa County includes Phoenix, the state capital.)
With just a few days left before the state grant money leaves his coffers, Sheriff Arpaio said that his efforts against illegal immigration would remain as strong as ever. “Nothing changes,” he told The Arizona Republic.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/immigration-enforcement-funds-slashed-in-arizona/?scp=1&sq=IMMIGRANT&st=cse
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Illegal are from many other countries. Racist never changed, we need to fight against illegal immigration and criminal. Most businesses are illegal for the payment for different color of people. If these laws are passed it would probably close most businesses and create a lot of the illegal immigration problem.
5/03/2008
Deepest, darkest fears in Darfur
For the Sunday Scribblings prompt, "deepest, darkest," drawings by two young victims of the Darfur tragedy and news of a resolution adopted Friday by the UN Human Rights Council. Photos of children's drawings courtesy of Human Rights Watch. Click photos to enlarge.
Thirteen-year-old Mahmoud describes his drawing: "These men in green are taking the women and the girls. They are forcing them to be wife. The houses are on fire. This is an Antonov. This is a helicopter. These here, at the bottom of the page, these are dead people."
A description of his drawing by Mostafa, age eight: “We were running. From soldiers. Janjaweed. Planes. They were chasing us. These are men. These are women. We ran to the wadi [riverbed, or oasis]. Then we ran to Chad.”
According to Human Rights Watch, the government of Sudan is responsible for “ethnic cleansing” and crimes against humanity in the context of conflict in Darfur, on Sudan’s western border with Chad. Since 2003, the Sudanese government and ethnic “Janjaweed” militias it arms and supports have committed numerous attacks on civilian populations of the Fur, Masalit, Zaghawa and other ethnic groups perceived to support the rebel insurgency. Government forces have participated in massacres, executed civilians—including women and children—burned towns and villages and depopulated land long inhabited by the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa. The Janjaweed militias - Muslim like the groups they attack - have destroyed mosques, killed religious leaders and desecrated Qurans belonging to their enemies.
Countless women and girls have been raped. Hundreds of villages have been bombed and burned; water sources and food stocks have been destroyed; property and livestock looted. Mosques, schools and hospitals have been burnt to the ground.
The United Nations estimates that more than two million people have been left homeless in the fighting. Almost a quarter of a million refugees are now in neighboring Chad, one of the poorest countries in Africa. Abandoned villages have been destroyed. Even when villages are left intact, many refugees are unwilling to return to Darfur unless their security is protected. “If we return,” one refugee told Human Rights Watch, “we will be killed.”
5/01/2008
Free press, access to information vital for development, top UN officials stress
3 May 2008 – Marking the annual World Press Freedom Day, top United Nations officials have stressed the role of a secure and independent media, and access to information, in empowering individuals and advancing development.
“When information flows freely, people are equipped with tools to take control of their lives,” noted Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for the Day, observed each year on 3 May. “When the flow of information is hindered – whether for political or technological reasons – our capacity to function is stunted.”
Mr. Ban stressed that a free, secure and independent media is one of the foundations of peace and democracy. Attacks on freedom of the press are attacks against international law, humanity, and freedom itself – everything the UN stands for, he said.
Alarmed at the increasing targeting of journalists around the world, and the failure to thoroughly investigate and prosecute such crimes, the Secretary-General called on all societies to spare no effort in bringing to justice the perpetrators of such attacks. He also paid tribute to all who work in difficult and dangerous conditions to provide the world with free, unbiased information.
The theme for this year's World Press Freedom Day, which was established by the UN in 1993, is “access to information and the empowerment of people.”
In his message on the occasion of the Day, the head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – the body tasked with protecting freedom of expression – stressed that press freedom and access to information feed into the wider development objective of empowering people by giving people the information that can help them gain control over their own lives.
“This empowerment supports participatory democracy by giving citizens the capacity to engage in public debate and to hold governments and others accountable,” said UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura.
Access to information is primordial to the exercise of the basic human right of freedom of expression, Mr. Matsuura added. To be free, the media need to have access to information. Such access is also indispensable in fighting corruption, which has been defined as the primary obstacle to development.
The winner of this year's UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize is a Mexican reporter who has been a target of death threats, sabotage and police harassment because of her work uncovering prostitution and child pornography networks.
Freelance investigative journalist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro will receive the award today at a World Press Freedom Day ceremony in Maputo, Mozambique, organized by UNESCO.
General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim stressed the importance of press freedom, noting that “it is access to information that truly empowers the individual to become more active and more responsible. In this free press is a crucial ally.”
He said the media contributes to the process of democratization, to the strengthening of the rule of law and ultimately to institution building by asking the “right and often difficult” questions, providing access to information and representing all views impartially.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights marked the Day by noting that harassment and secrecy laws are weakening press freedom. “It is a sad fact that many governments across the world persist in undermining the freedom of the press to report facts and opinions and, by extension, the right of people in general to be informed about events and policies that are shaping our world,” Louise Arbour said.
Ms. Arbour noted that governments are becoming more secretive and offering propaganda disguised as objective information – especially when alleged security-related issues are on the table.
The proliferation of new or strengthened secrecy laws means that the media are forced to resort to speculation, which can then be used against them to further undermine their credibility, or even as a justification for initiating legal proceedings against them, she added.
Echoing her comments, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression marked the Day by calling on governments to end censorship, protect a free and independent media and guarantee their right to criticize.
“Freedom of the press cannot be applicable exclusively for those with whom we agree,” stated Ambeyi Ligabo. “On the contrary, the key to freedom of expression is to respect the rights of those with whom we disagree to voice their own opinion. Without this right, democracy itself cannot flourish.”
In Afghanistan, Norah Niland, Chief Human Rights Officer for the UN Assistance Mission there, underlined the importance of press freedom as the country prepares for a fresh round of presidential and parliamentary elections next year.
“In the run-up to Afghanistan's elections in 2009 and 2010 press freedom will be more vital than ever, people can only make informed decisions about the political future of their country if they are empowered with balanced objective information,” said Ms. Niland. “The media has a crucial role to play in this respect.”
“When information flows freely, people are equipped with tools to take control of their lives,” noted Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for the Day, observed each year on 3 May. “When the flow of information is hindered – whether for political or technological reasons – our capacity to function is stunted.”
Mr. Ban stressed that a free, secure and independent media is one of the foundations of peace and democracy. Attacks on freedom of the press are attacks against international law, humanity, and freedom itself – everything the UN stands for, he said.
Alarmed at the increasing targeting of journalists around the world, and the failure to thoroughly investigate and prosecute such crimes, the Secretary-General called on all societies to spare no effort in bringing to justice the perpetrators of such attacks. He also paid tribute to all who work in difficult and dangerous conditions to provide the world with free, unbiased information.
The theme for this year's World Press Freedom Day, which was established by the UN in 1993, is “access to information and the empowerment of people.”
In his message on the occasion of the Day, the head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – the body tasked with protecting freedom of expression – stressed that press freedom and access to information feed into the wider development objective of empowering people by giving people the information that can help them gain control over their own lives.
“This empowerment supports participatory democracy by giving citizens the capacity to engage in public debate and to hold governments and others accountable,” said UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura.
Access to information is primordial to the exercise of the basic human right of freedom of expression, Mr. Matsuura added. To be free, the media need to have access to information. Such access is also indispensable in fighting corruption, which has been defined as the primary obstacle to development.
The winner of this year's UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize is a Mexican reporter who has been a target of death threats, sabotage and police harassment because of her work uncovering prostitution and child pornography networks.
Freelance investigative journalist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro will receive the award today at a World Press Freedom Day ceremony in Maputo, Mozambique, organized by UNESCO.
General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim stressed the importance of press freedom, noting that “it is access to information that truly empowers the individual to become more active and more responsible. In this free press is a crucial ally.”
He said the media contributes to the process of democratization, to the strengthening of the rule of law and ultimately to institution building by asking the “right and often difficult” questions, providing access to information and representing all views impartially.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights marked the Day by noting that harassment and secrecy laws are weakening press freedom. “It is a sad fact that many governments across the world persist in undermining the freedom of the press to report facts and opinions and, by extension, the right of people in general to be informed about events and policies that are shaping our world,” Louise Arbour said.
Ms. Arbour noted that governments are becoming more secretive and offering propaganda disguised as objective information – especially when alleged security-related issues are on the table.
The proliferation of new or strengthened secrecy laws means that the media are forced to resort to speculation, which can then be used against them to further undermine their credibility, or even as a justification for initiating legal proceedings against them, she added.
Echoing her comments, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression marked the Day by calling on governments to end censorship, protect a free and independent media and guarantee their right to criticize.
“Freedom of the press cannot be applicable exclusively for those with whom we agree,” stated Ambeyi Ligabo. “On the contrary, the key to freedom of expression is to respect the rights of those with whom we disagree to voice their own opinion. Without this right, democracy itself cannot flourish.”
In Afghanistan, Norah Niland, Chief Human Rights Officer for the UN Assistance Mission there, underlined the importance of press freedom as the country prepares for a fresh round of presidential and parliamentary elections next year.
“In the run-up to Afghanistan's elections in 2009 and 2010 press freedom will be more vital than ever, people can only make informed decisions about the political future of their country if they are empowered with balanced objective information,” said Ms. Niland. “The media has a crucial role to play in this respect.”
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This is for the Freedom Day.That refer to an absence of undue restrictions and an opportunity to exercise one's rights and powers. Freedom emphasizes the opportunity given for the exercise of one's rights, powers, desires, or the like: freedom of speech or conscience; freedom of movement. Independence implies not only lack of restrictions but also the ability to stand alone, unsustained by anything else: Independence of thought promotes invention and discovery. Liberty, though most often interchanged with freedom.
4/10/2008
human rights
The right to vote is widely and important as human right, this right is enforced for millions around the world.
Sometime, people who is commit crimes, homeless, disablity could llimited the rights to election.
It's unfair to those people.According to the vote rights ACT, the rights cannot take by other people either they are different colour.This rights seem to be most successful civil rights in the United States Congress.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro_b.htm
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