Anybody who questions immigration is treated like low life.
Any figures that do emerge should, like all statistics on irregular immigration, be treated with caution.
Because the man, Ralph Richardson, had a previous conviction for cocaine trafficking, immigration officials treated him not as a returning lawful resident, but as an "arriving alien," subject to incarceration and automatic "removal" proceedings under the 1996 immigration law.
The accounts suggested that at least some immigration inspectors treated the people they detained callously, frequently used shackles and handcuffs to restrain them for hours, and provided no translators or sometimes hostile translators for those who did not understand what was happening to them.
Damian Green is trying to create an illusion that he is tough on immigration by treating legal immigrants like illegal immigrants, and doing nothing about illegal immigration.
"I promise to cut immigration while treating people fairly and humanely.
He added: "I promise to cut immigration while treating people fairly and humanely.
Immigration court treats naturalization as a fiction: anyone who wasn't born in the United States is Other.
The federal government doesn't recognize those weddings, meaning that in terms of taxes, military benefits and matters of immigration, it treats gays and lesbians differently than it treats other Americans.
In practice, however, a more lenient law has long governed the way immigration authorities treat foreigners who marry American citizens: Even if they overstayed, as long as they originally entered the country legally, they had been allowed to "adjust" their status to permanent resident.
