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Illegal Immigrants in Greece End Hunger Strike
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS, Greece -- Nearly 300 illegal immigrants have ended a six-week hunger strike after the Greek government, fearing the death of one or more protesters, agreed not to begin deportation proceedings against them. After crisis talks with the strikers tonight, a team of government ministers said the 287 immigrants -- mainly from Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria -- would be allowed to stay in the country for six months for humanitarian reasons. Petros Giannakouris, AP Immigrants celebrate the end of their hunger strike in central Athens on Wednesday. Some 287 immigrants in Greece ended ...
Anna Chapman, the Redheaded Russian Spy: Where Is She Now?
By Jeanette Friedman - AOL NewsAnna Chapman was just one of a host of people who momentarily grabbed the spotlight in 2010 and dominated a news cycle or two while getting their 15 minutes of fame. AOL News is checking in on 25 of these newsmakers and giving them a 16th minute. Dmitry Lovetsky, AP Anna Chapman recently made the cover of the Russian edition of Maxim. Anna Chapman Made News in 2010 When She: Was caught red-handed as part of a Cold War-style Kremlin spy ring in June and was deported to Russia in July. The Full Story: Mother Russia's SVR was running a deep-cover spy ring whose mission was to ...
Legally Married Gay Man Faces US Deportation
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(Oct. 27) -- Henry Velandia is married to a U.S. citizen, but he might be deported anyway. That's because the Venezuelan-born salsa teacher's legal same-sex marriage in Connecticut isn't recognized by the federal government. So his husband -- Josh Vandiver, a Princeton University doctoral student from Colorado -- can't sponsor him for residency the way he could in a heterosexual marriage. The New Jersey couple of four years say the Defense of Marriage Act, which legally defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman, could force them to leave the country. Yiftah Elazar, ...
EU Slams France Over Mass Gypsy Deportations
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- France is facing possible legal action from the European Union over its policy of tearing down makeshift Gypsy settlements and hastily deporting their residents to Eastern Europe. Since the beginning of the year, at least 8,000 Roma (as the Gypsy people are known) have been rounded up and sent to Romania and Bulgaria, according to France 24. Human rights groups, the Catholic Church and even members of President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative Cabinet have condemned the policy, which many critics believe is designed to boost Sarkozy's popularity at a time of unpopular spending ...
Does Hess' Deportation Mean Turkey's Tough on Journalists?
By Justin Vela - AOL NewsISTANBUL, Turkey (Aug. 16) -- As U.S. freelance journalist Jake Hess waited today for the Turkish government to finish the paperwork necessary to deport him, his detention has prompted some to wonder whether press freedom has taken a turn for the worse in Turkey. Hess was detained Wednesday in the Kurdish majority city of Diyarbakir only weeks after writing articles highly critical of the Turkish government's treatment of Kurds in the country's southeast. The government cited his alleged links to illegal Kurdish organizations in its warrant for detention. Turkey fell to 122nd place in ...
Deportation of Illegal Immigrants Increases Under Obama
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyRecord numbers of illegal immigrants have been deported since President Obama took office, and the number of audits of businesses that hire undocumented workers has quadrupled during the same period, The Washington Post reported. The administration's plan to overhaul federal immigration laws has led to the deportation of about 400,000 people this fiscal year. That's ten percent more deportations than the Bush administration's 2008 total and 25 percent more than were deported in 2007, according to the Post. Last month Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton wrote a memo ...
Harvard High Achiever Could Be Deported
By Mara Gay - AOL News(June 14) -- Harvard sophomore Eric Balderas, 19, does not remember Mexico, but he may be deported there anyway. Balderas was only 4 years old when he became an illegal immigrant. But his youth proved no defense when immigration officials arrested the biology major at the San Antonio airport after he tried to board a plane back to Boston without a passport. "They just kept [asking] me if I had any other documents, that they were just trying to help me so that I can get on the plane," he told The Boston Globe. "But at that point I realized there was nothing that I could do, that anybody could ...
Deportation Threat Has Contortionist in a Jam
By Karen Schwartz - AOL NewsBOULDER, Colo. (May 30) -- Street performer Ibashi-i tries to take a philosophical approach to life. After all, he learned of his talent as a contortionist after getting stuck while digging a borehole toilet on his native island of St. Kitts. Now, 40 years later, he finds himself stuck again. Despite the support of thousands of fans, he is facing possible deportation because of a misdemeanor marijuana conviction. Karen Schwartz for AOL News Street performer Ibashi-i, a contortionist from the island of St. Kitts, begins putting his body into a 20-inch Plexiglas cube during a performance in ...
Obama Throws Aunt Under the Bus
By Dave - Politics Dailyvia Katie Couric: Watch CBS Videos Online Hmmm... Do we really believe Obama hasn't been able to get in touch with her? It seems someone has talked to her:Speaking outside her home in Flaherty Way, South Boston, on Tuesday, Ms Onyango, 56, confirmed she was the "Auntie Zeituni" in Mr Obama's memoir. She declined to answer most other questions about her relationship with the presidential contender until after the November 4 election. "I can't talk about it, I just pray for him, that's all," she said, adding: "After the 4th, I can talk to anyone." Who told her she couldn't talk until after the ...
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