An October 14 New York Times article by Nina Bernstein “A Contest of Suffering, With the U.S. as a Prize” sheds light on humanitarian parole, the authority vested in the Secretary of Homeland Security, to grant foreign citizens entry to the United States for “urgent humanitarian reasons.” The article reports that since January, 2000 only about 20% of the 6,718 requests received for humanitarian parole were approved. According to Michael W. Gilhooley, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency deciding requests for humanitarian parole, each request is considered independently by two ICE officers and then their (presumably collective) decision is reviewed by an ICE supervisor.
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October 2005
An Open Letter to Grover Norquist: Stop Congress from Imposing a New Immigration Stealth Tax on Multinationals!
By Angelo A. Paparelli on
Posted in Immigration Reform
An Open Letter to Grover Norquist: Stop Congress from Imposing a New Immigration Stealth Tax on Multinationals!
Dear Mr. Norquist:
You are a well-known champion of tax and immigration reform. As President of Americans for Tax Reform, you’ve helped secure the signatures of President George W. Bush, 46 Senators and 221 Members of the…