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Real ID Act, approved by boh houses of Congress and
awaiting President George W. Bush's signature, will
make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to obtain
official identification
that would enable them
to board an
airplane, fill out tax forms or open a bank account.
(Washington
Post) Though it is not yet law, fake
"Real ID" cards are already out in the market (Sing
Tao Daily).
An immigrant detention
center near Kennedy Airport will be closed at the end
of June to save money, a federal official said. It
costs $225 a day to detain each person there, compared
with an average of $53 in county jails in Batavia,
N.Y.,
and Elizabeth, N.J., where the immigrants will be sent
instead. (Newsday)
In this June edition
of The Citizen, we take a look immigrant parents and
their children's education, voter registration campaigns
in ethnic communities, the growing number of Korean-Ameican
elderly, worker protest against labor exploitation
and the emergence of Runglish-- a blend of Russian
and English. Stories from
the Chinese, Korean, Polish, Russian and
Spanish-language press via our partner, Voices That
Must Be Heard.
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