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Nov 17 2010, Oscar

Mexican marines have rescued 103 people, including three newborns and a pregnant 12-year-old girl, who were held captive by human traffickers at a banana plantation in Mexico, officials said.

Eight suspects have been arrested and will be charged...

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Oscar, Oaxaca
Six Cuban migrants held hostage by people smugglers were found at a resort on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Hermelindo Maquin set out from his home in the Guatemalan countryside in early August, leaving behind his small farm and pregnant wife as he began the long, perilous...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
The horrifying massacre of 72 Central and South American immigrants by the hands of Zetas shocked the world. Preliminary investigations, based on testimony by the sole...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Gunmen massacred 72 kidnapped migrants at a remote ranch in northeastern Mexico after they refused to either pay a ransom for their release or take jobs as hitmen,...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Seventy-two bodies discovered at a ranch in northeast Mexico belonged to migrants who were making their way toward the United States, Mexican officials said Wednesday.
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Hate crime: Hate crimes (also known as bias-motivated crimes) occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
In an article by the Staten Island Advance, there has been a string of muggings in the New York borough of Staten Island. Anyone who has spent more than 15 minutes in...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Several hundred immigrants gathered outside the White House and Pheonix Courthouse today to celebrate the partial blockage of Arizona’s new immigration law....
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Oscar, Oaxaca
By all accounts the recession is subsiding and important leading sectors of the ecomony are recovering after the biggest recession since the 1930s. Yet while the...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday slammed a tough new immigration law in the U.S. state of Arizona, which borders Mexico, saying it would breed hate and...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Mexican authorities say they have charged six people, including police officers, with robbing and raping Central American migrants making their way to the United...
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Ikramuddin Bahram, Peshawar
Pakistan’s interior Ministry is set to carry out a countrywide operation against all Afghan immigrants who own property (-ies) in Pakistan particularly in the city of...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
In southern Italy, vulgar race riots recently broke out. A day after African and Arab farm workers rioted in nearly lawless, mafia-controlled Roserno, native Italians...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Recently disclosed documents reveal abuse of immigrants held in federal custody and an attempted cover up by negligent and corrupt officials. Not only were immigrants...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Two digital billboards found South of the American border question waiting Northbound shoppers and day tourists a question worth pondering. The digital query which...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Mexico is once again rolling out the red carpets. With Christmas and New Year nearing every state in the Republic of Mexico has kicked into high gear to eagerly await...
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Muzikansky, Jerusalem
Mila Valdez, 40, lives near the central bus station in Tel Aviv. It is thousands of miles from where she was born, in the Philippines. She and her 7-year-old son live a...
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Nathaniel, Liverpool
When she was 11, a Swedish-born girl was taken on vacation to her mother’s native Somalia. The mother wanted to “make her daughter clean” and paid a man to cut...
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CJ, San Francisco
Not long after the Iraq war began in 2003, Uday Hattem al-Ghanimi was accosted by several men outside the American military base where he managed a convenience store....
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Domonique, Washington
GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose “Juancho” Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business. Instead, dozens of...
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Andrew, Tempe
Reporting from Altar, Mexico — On a cloudless afternoon in northern Sonora, migrants and drug runners lounge in equal numbers under scattered mesquite trees,...
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Jack, Los Angeles
- Up to 21,000 independent child migrants from outside South Africa are living in the country, according to a discussion document by the UN Children’s Fund...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Yesterday’s tragic shooting of 13 would-be American immigrants taking their citizenship exam by a deranged Asian-American gunman has brought to light the deaths...
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Allan, London
I keep reading how polygamy is gaining wider acceptance here in North America and decided to do a bit of snooping around to find out if this is true. The only thing I...
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Jay, Mumbai
This week promised to be full of joy and excitement as everyone got in the festive mood of celebrating Diwali. It started with Dhanteras falling on Sunday, when one...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
First and foremost: Screw the poor. In developing countries like Mexico, they are dead weight. You’ve got to cut them loose or push them out. Mexico has made a...
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Justin, Rochester
In order to become a permanent, legal resident of the U.S., immigrants now must receive a vaccine that is not required of U.S. citizens.
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Alessandra Peron, Vicenza
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has declared that granting the right to vote to regular immigrants is not included in the goverment’s plans. This put an end...
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Yevgeniy Zingerman, Jerusalem
Israeli delegation to the Olympians games in Beijing counting 42 sportsmen (the biggest one ever sent from Israel) traditionally consists of many Russian-speaking...
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Jude, New Delhi
A series of tragedies involving migrants off the coast of Spain have raised fears that the summer could see a record-breaking death toll in the region, as refugees...
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Rudolf, New York
In what he thought was a private moment during an interview break with “Fox & Friends” on Sunday, Rev. Jesse Jackson remarked to another guest that he would...
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Vikas, solan
Indians have turned out to be the largest group of immigrants, who have been granted British citizenship during 2007, according to the official figures released this...
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, Midrand
From controlling dictators to people attacking others while they are down. Africa is sick, and it seems to be getting worse. To some extent I’d like to blame...
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Matt Wendus, Arlington
To begin with, I will offer a disclaimer to liberals who mainline in knee-jerk inclusion, rabid Southwest State nativists and homeland security cheerleaders, first- or...
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A child carrying a banner sits on a man shoulder as thousands of protesters gathered at Trafalgar Square in London for a rally as part of the ‘Strangers into Citizens’ day of action calling for an estimated 450,000 long-term illegal immigrants in...