"They said I needed a document for immigration and I didn't have it," Ms. Berenson said, "so they wouldn't let me leave the country".
This has been widely documented for 'Western' immigration policy-making (Boswell, 2007; Joppke, 1998), but there is no reason to restrict this insight to liberal democracies.
The officials reacted swiftly to a statement by Kenneth Palinkas, president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, in which he called on lawmakers to reject an immigration bill before the Senate, saying security procedures were weak for checking the backgrounds of millions of immigrants who would apply for immigration documents under the legislation.
The Obama administration on Wednesday proposed an overall increase of about 10 percent in fees for immigration documents, but kept the fee for immigrants to become United States citizens unchanged.
The Obama administration has announced plans to increase fees for immigration documents by about 10 percent.
Another agency, Citizenship and Immigration Services, is in charge of approving applications for immigration documents.
Police on the Greek island of Kos have used fire extinguishers and batons against migrants, as tensions boiled over in a sports stadium where hundreds had gathered to wait for immigration documents.
Udi Ofer, director of advocacy for the civil liberties union, said his group was astonished by the department's unwillingness to alert and guide the school districts, most of which he described as probably "clueless" rather than malicious in asking for immigration documents.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service is examining immigration documents for 18,000 workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as part of a nationwide review to improve security.
The government says that Mr. Rana falsified immigration documents for Mr. Headley and helped him use Mr. Rana's First World Immigration Services as cover for his activities in India and Denmark.
