An asylum applicant from the west African nation of Benin who received death threats after neighbors and family in his home country discovered he was bisexual is in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, despite a ruling by the ...

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A Mecklenburg County Superior Court didn’t have jurisdiction to grant the habeas corpus petitions of two men who were arrested by the local sheriff’s office and detained pursuant to a written agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the North ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A North Carolina man who federal authorities say sexually abused his stepdaughter has been stripped of his United States citizenship and will be deported to Ghana. The News & Observer cites a U.S. Justice Department statement that says Prempeh Ernest ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Federal agents arrested an immigrant who is in the U.S. illegally after a North Carolina sheriff declined their request to keep the registered sex offender in custody, immigration officials said July 25. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Seventeen states, including North Carolina, sued President Donald Trump’s administration June 26 in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families who have been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Late that same day, a federal judge in ...

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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) Justin Miayen Woazeah Jr. was 5 years old when he left Liberia as a child of war. He remembers people killing each other in the street and hiding for days in the woods in the pouring rain with ...

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  After 16 years in America, an Argentinian “tourist” is being deported without a hearing after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that despite the absence of a signed waiver, he in fact waived his right to contest ...

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It’s been more than four months since the presidential election, and immigration attorneys across the Carolinas, and the country, find their phones are still ringing off the hook. Litigation over President Donald Trump’s proposed immigration policies may have raised complicated ...

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Zhu v. Deng (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-409-16, 27 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) Appealed from Wake County District Court (Anna Worley, J.) N.C. App. Holding: When the plaintiff-husband’s parents signed immigration form I-864, they were agreeing to support plaintiff’s Chinese bride ...

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Every election season, you tend to hear the same refrain: “If such-and-such wins the election, I’m moving to Canada.” (Or Europe, etc.) But this year, for some reason or another, an unusually high number of people seem to be expressing ...

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