In 2000, the islanders won a historic victory in the high court, which ruled their expulsion illegal.
The Obama administration, while deporting a record number of immigrants convicted of crimes, is sparing one group of illegal immigrants from expulsion: students who came to the United States without papers when they were children.
Too bad, though, that the results that restrictionists predict from victory — an end to illegal immigration, the expulsion of illegal immigrants, the restoration of jobs to American workers, the protection of American culture and language from a Hispanic invasion — are not coming anytime soon.
Claude M. Gruener Austin, Tex., Dec. 30, 2007 To the Editor: Your editorial supports "assimilation" of illegal immigrants, rather than "expulsion".
In a powerful concurring opinion, Judge John Noonan paid particular attention to the first section of the law, which enshrines the expulsion of illegal immigrants as official state policy.
The experience of Roma in western Europe hit the headlines last year when France began a high-profile expulsion of illegal Roma immigrants.
NAIROBI, Kenya — More than 600 women and girls were recently raped along the Congo-Angola border during a mass expulsion of illegal immigrants, according to the United Nations.
The issue developed into a political storm in Europe after Mr. Sarkozy announced in late July that he had ordered the expulsion of illegal Roma and itinerant immigrants along with the dismantling of their camps.
In a powerful concurring opinion, Judge John Noonan paid particular attention to the section of the law that enshrines the mass expulsion of illegal immigrants — "attrition through enforcement" — as Arizona's official state policy.
