By Jonah Newman Seventeen years ago, Iqbal Mevawalla left his comfortable job as a typist at a TV station in Karachi, Pakistan for an unknown future in the United States. When he arrived in Chicago, his first job...
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The answering machine says, “Thank you for calling Brian, Janina, and Tony Wasilewski.” But for nearly two years, Tony has lived alone in his house in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, separated by more than 4,000 miles from his wife and son. On June 8, 2007,...
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By Jonah Newman Simeon Simeonov held his Bible close to him as he huddled under his umbrella, among more than 50 immigrant rights activists and religious leaders, outside the Broadview Detention Center, a...
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"Elizabeth Billmeyer, 48, of Postville, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to harbor undocumented aliens for profit and one count of knowingly accepting counterfeit resident alien cards. She faces up to 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.Billmeyer was working at...
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"Hennepin County Medical Center, a sprawling complex in downtown Minneapolis near the Metrodome, offers an extraordinary vantage point on the ways immigrants are testing the American medical establishment. The new arrivals — many fleeing repression, war, genocide or...
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Every other Sunday for as long as I can remember, my brother and I would go over to Nana and Papa’s for dinner. The food was always the same: chicken and noodles, followed by fruit and, only once we had finished our fruit, a little cup of chocolate chips. Either before or...
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Star Tribune: Slaughterhouse manager guilty on Imm. charges