CHANNEL: Immigration

Rhode Island Superior Court will hear a case tomorrow, Dec. 10, regarding withheld documents related to ICE detainee Hiu Lui Ng.  His fractured spine and cancer weren't diagnosed until five days before his death.

Boston-area Brazilians are disappointed that a Homeland Security director was fired for employing an undocumented housecleaner, and surprised that the worker turned against her boss, reports NEWz.

Latinos and others organized a Las Posadas reenactment near the Mass. State House, in which the Bible's Mary and Joseph are repeatdly denied shelter while traveling to Bethlehem, says BrazilianJournal.net.

The attorney general of Connecticut has joined 34 immigrant construction workers in a lawsuit against their employer, who allegedly underpaid them and falsely claimed deductions for "taxes and benefits."

Starting Jan. 18, 2009, people entering the United States who are not US citizens, including permanent US residents, may have to provide fingerprints, reports OJornal.com. *EM PORTUGUÊS*

Jason Ng, a detainee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had cancer and a fractured spine that went undiagnosed until five days before his death.  This month, a court is expected to decide if the Central Falls, RI, detention facility must release his records to his family.  NEWz spoke to Jack McConnell, the Rhode Island ACLU attorney who is representing the Ng family.

Undocumented immigrants make up a tiny portion of the 7.1 million in federal housing.  It's wrong to blame them for problems evolved over centuries, says Tribuna publisher Celia Bacelar. *EM PORTUGUÊS*

Immigrants are encouraged to attend the Mass. Office for Refugees and Immigrants' meeting in Lowell this evening.  Their concerns will help shape Gov. Patrick's New Americans Agenda and policy.

Janet Napolitano, the new head of US Homeland Security, pledged to get tough on the "demand" side of illegal immigration, that is, on employers who hire undocumented workers, reports Feetin2Worlds.org.

A Migration Policy Institute study finds that undocumented immigrants are more sensitive to recessions than the documented because the former are mostly economic migrants, reports OJornal.com.  *EM PORTUGUÊS*