By Jonathan Saltzman
The state’s highest court yesterday struck down a provision in a Lowell ordinance that made it a crime for children under 17 to violate a curfew, a ruling expected to affect other Massachusetts communities that have adopted or are considering similar local laws.
The Supreme Ju...
By Sarah Fitzpatrick
Special to The Washington Post
When Lauro L. Baja Jr. returned to his native Philippines in 2007, he had just finished a four-year stint as ambassador to the United Nations that included two terms as president of the Security Council. A storied diplomatic career that began in ...
By JIM DWYER
Behind the gray curtain of a voting booth in Chinatown, Fun Mae Eng pulled a slip of paper from her pocket. She had never voted for president before. She did not read or write English. But on the paper, she had drawn the letters that represented the candidate’s name.
First was a C.
S...
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
A group of Chinese restaurant workers have filed a claim this week with the National Labor Relations Board against Wu Liang Ye, a Chinese restaurant group which the workers sued for labor violations in April 2008.
In the original lawsuit, 25 workers — waiters and delivery worker...
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
A federal judge has awarded $4.6 million in back pay and damages to 36 delivery workers at two Saigon Grill restaurants in Manhattan, finding blatant and systematic violations of minimum-wage and overtime laws.
In a decision dated Monday and released on Tuesday, Magistrate Jud...
Volume 20 Issue 20 | Sept. 28 – Oct. 04, 2007
By Skye H. McFarlane
Environmental advocates and local officials agree that the road to comprehensive 9/11 healthcare runs straight through Washington, D.C. Nevertheless, the city is driving forward on its own, expanding free treatment for residents, w...
By NEHA SINGH and KHIN MAI AUNG
A SHY high school freshman, Harpal Singh Vacher, ended the school year last spring as the latest collateral damage in a citywide political tussle. What began as a childish argument with fellow students on May 24 ended with Harpal crouched on a bathroom floor at Newto...
By Cara Buckley
It was the evening rush one recent night in lower Chinatown, and chaos was unfolding in its usual way.
Cars slowed to a crawl around Chatham Square, an asterisk of an intersection where seven streets converge. Traffic safety officers frantically waved their white-gloved hands, tryi...
By Anthony Faiola
NEW YORK — The deliverymen of Saigon Grill labored for years at the bottom of Manhattan’s food chain. Biking swiftly down the avenues in biting cold and searing heat, they schlepped up high-rises and walk-ups with bags of steaming noodles and shrimp fried rice.
Then they surprise...
By Steven Greenhouse
Happy Lee can hardly believe that the nail salon across the street from hers charges just $7 for a manicure.
I dont know how they can make it, said Ms. Lee, the owner of Happy Beauty Salon in Carle Place, Long Island, which employs nine manicurists.
Ms. Lee said her industry ...
Tuesday, July 31: AALDEF hosts a reading of the novel Chambermaid with author Saira Rao. Ms. Raos witty and humorous debut novel follows a young attorneys eventful year clerking for a federal judge. The book will be available for sale at the event, which includes a discussion and book signing.
Loca...
By Elizabeth Llorente
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, founded in 1974, says it’s setting up an office to address “the unmet legal needs of Asian-Americans in New Jersey.”
The New Jersey-Asian American Legal Project — which is part of the national group — will run the office.
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July 2, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle
By Khin Mai Aung and Christina Wong
When the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions on Seattle’s and Louisville’s school integration cases came down, our offices received a flurry of calls inquiring how the rulings impact Asian Pacific Americans. Without a doubt, the ...
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Starting on July 30, 2007, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will increase its filing fees for applications, petitions, benefits, and services. Applying for citizenship now costs a total of $400; however, the total fee will become $675 by the end of July. This new t...
Since Non-Immigrant Persons are authorized to reside in the U.S. for a limited period of time for limited purposes, such as students or tourists, non-immigrant persons cannot receive most federal public benefits that are based on their need and income level. Similarly, Undocumented Persons can recei...
As a Green Card Holder, “Legal Permanent Resident”, you may be able to receive many public benefits from New York State and the Federal Government. In some cases, you are entitled to receive these benefits under some circumstances without residency or work requirements. For other public benefits, th...
Public Benefits and Public Charge:
After welfare became workfare during the overhaul of immigration laws in 1996, many immigrant families were confused or afraid of seeking public benefits. Some immigrants and their families believed that receiving public benefits would affect their immigration sta...
May 22, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle
The powerful interest groups whose backing is critical to an overhaul of U.S. immigration policy are fracturing over the new bipartisan “grand bargain” in the Senate, setting up a brawl over changes that could tear the fragile deal apart.
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Leading immigrant ...
May 18, 2007, CNN-IBN
New York: The largest-ever survey of Asian-American voters shows that an overwhelming majority of Indian-Americans support the Democrats at election time.
Though it was assumed that Indians in America mostly vote for the Democratic Party, the survey covering 11,000 Asian-Amer...
May 22, 2007, Dan Rather Reports
TIMES SQUARE, CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD, IN A CITY, NEW YORK THAT EXEMPLIFIES THE HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION IN THIS COUNTRY AND IT’S PRESENT. AND NOW IN WASHINGTON LAWMAKERS ARE AT WORK DEBATING IMMIGRATIONS FUTURE. ON THE TABLE IS A NEW COMPROMISED BILL THAT WOULD OFFER...
