Small-town America 'struggling to cope' with wave of new immigrants...
MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA — The voice was frantic – and unintelligible to the 911 dispatcher. “Ma’am, I cannot understand you,” she said. After 80 seconds, one word leapt out: “Riverview.”
On a warm July evening in 2012, while Marshalltown, Iowa, celebrated Independence Day, three refugee children from Myanmar (Burma) drowned in the Iowa River. The drownings at Riverview Park cast a grim light on the challenges facing both the city and its newest immigrants, most of whom spoke little English and had scant understanding of life in their new home – including the perils, known to more established residents, of the river’s treacherous currents.
“We preach to kids all the time: You don’t swim in the river. You don’t play around the river,” says Kay Beach, president of the Marshalltown school board. “But they didn’t know that.”
For two decades, rural communities across the Midwest have been finding ways to absorb Latino immigrants. Now, a new generation of immigrants arriving from far-flung places such as Myanmar, Somalia, Iraq, and West Africa has brought a bewildering variety of cultures and languages. Many towns are struggling to cope.
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Topic: Illegals skipping deportation hearings spikes 153% (Read 510 times)
"The statistics also show that judges grant asylum less than 50-percent of the time while immigrants from Central American countries get asylum an average of 2-percent of the time."
Well there's your answer why they are skipping those hearings. Why would they come if the chances of being granted asylum are so small,
for most of them, life of a undocumented immigrant is far better than what they would have in their own country, its sad , but thats the harsh reality they are facing.
cheers
Well there's your answer why they are skipping those hearings. Why would they come if the chances of being granted asylum are so small,
for most of them, life of a undocumented immigrant is far better than what they would have in their own country, its sad , but thats the harsh reality they are facing.
cheers
The federal government said the number of undocumented immigrants failing to appear at deportation hearings is on the rise.
According to the Executive Office of Immigration Review, the number of people who did not show after being released on bond or on their own recognizance grew by 153 percent in the last four years.
Immigration judges ordered deportations for those no-shows.
About 30 to 40 percent of undocumented immigrants failed to appear at their hearings last year.
http://www.krgv.com/news/local-news/Undocumented-Immigrants-Failing-To-Appear-At-Hearings-Increasing/31937898
According to the Executive Office of Immigration Review, the number of people who did not show after being released on bond or on their own recognizance grew by 153 percent in the last four years.
Immigration judges ordered deportations for those no-shows.
About 30 to 40 percent of undocumented immigrants failed to appear at their hearings last year.
http://www.krgv.com/news/local-news/Undocumented-Immigrants-Failing-To-Appear-At-Hearings-Increasing/31937898
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