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Ten Bolivians are suing the country’s former president and defense minister over the government response to protests, which killed 67 civilians and injured 400 more.
Two weeks after the initial arrests, Kirksville El Vaquero owner Neftali Lopez was indicted along with his employees on charges of Social Security fraud and harboring unauthorized immigrants.
Venezuela on April 15 moved to take a greater cut of windfall oil profits.
A study by MU’s Cambio Center examines how Latino immigrants integrate into Missouri towns
The pet food plant will open in June and create 20 to 30 jobs. Will it heal wounds from ConAgra’s closing?
The three front-runners for the November 2008 gubernatorial election have similar views on the issue, but various plans for change.
Study overestimates the number and cost of unauthorized immigrants.
At issue is whether municipalities may enact laws on immigration issues.
More than one in four people in the U.S. in 2050 will be Hispanic, and nearly one in five people will be an immigrant, according to a population projection by the Pew Hispanic Center.
Missouri law enforcement officers began pre-training with Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month to become deputized immigration agents. In February, ICE hosted educational sessions for the Missouri State Highway Patrol and other law enforcement officers in nine Missouri cities.
The nation’s largest Hispanic advocacy group removed the conference from Kansas City because of the appointment of an anti-immigration advocate to a city position.
Michael Schlup, a Lake of the Ozarks contractor, was charged with 14 counts of failure to withhold taxes from undocumented workers in 2006 after investigators found he employed more than 30 undocumented workers whom he paid in cash at $8 to $9 an hour.
Mexican President Felipe Calderón made a four-day trip to the United States, where he acknowledged tensions between the two countries over unauthorized immigration and decried anti-migrant sentiment in the U.S.
More than one-third of Latinos tested in the National Alliance for Hispanic Health 2007 Summer Heart Health survey had high levels of cholesterol, but Latinos are the group least likely to have been tested for cholesterol levels, the NAHH reported.
Services are rarely available in Spanish
Guatemala’s anticipated accession to the convention in January is intended to safeguard Guatemalan children from abuse and trafficking. Although pending adoptions are not likely to be affected, Guatemala’s transition could temporarily shut the tap on thousands of adoptions by U.S. couples.
A transplant of job and culture, new editorial editor at Post-Dispatch brings fresh view on city.
Brent Rosenblad had never experienced an earthquake. He’ll never forget the 5.1 tremor that rattled his Peruvian hotel during dinner one evening in October.
Church leaders in the Kansas City area pledged in late September to grant sanctuary to unauthorized immigrants facing deportation, coming together as the New Sanctuary Movement Coalition of Kansas City.
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