International Business News - Immigrant http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A Pennsylvania teen charged with killing a Mexican man has lost a bid to be sent to private school on the taxpayers' dime. Brandon Piekarsky is charged with third-degree murder in the July beating death of 24-year-old Luis Ramirez. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/immigrant-death-defendant-complains-about-school.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:15:02 EDT A management company with properties in New Jersey and Pennsylvania is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by a national immigration reform group. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/dismissal-sought-for-immigration-inspired-nj-suit.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:15:57 EDT World leaders used to fly to New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly session, address the world body, conduct some official business and head home. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080921/leaders-add-immigrant-outreach-to-un-trip-agenda.htm Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:18:35 EDT A state appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit challenging a policy that allows some illegal immigrants to pay lower in-state tuition to attend California's public colleges and universities. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080916/lawsuit-over-illegal-immigrant-tuition-revived.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:35:38 EDT A 27-year-old Army national guardsman was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison for his role in an immigrant smuggling scheme. Pfc. Jose Rodrigo Torres was arrested in June 2007 after driving through a Border Patrol checkpoint in a van loaded with 24 undocumented immigrants. Prosecutors say the van was leased by the Texas Army National Guard. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/guardsman-gets-2-years-for-immigrant-smuggling.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:36:02 EDT Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fourth teenager has been charged in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant. Schuylkill County prosecutors charged the teen in juvenile court Friday with aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation and other offenses. His name and age are not being released. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080906/4th-pa-teen-charged-in-killing-of-immigrant.htm Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:15:58 EDT Two small-town teenagers charged with murder and ethnic intimidation in the beating death of a Mexican man were granted bail Tuesday. Schuylkill County Judge William Baldwin set bail at $50,000 each for Brandon Piekarsky, 16, and Colin Walsh, 17. The two, who are white, are charged with third-degree murder in the July 12 beating of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/defendants-in-pa-immigrant-slaying-granted-bail.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:22:14 EDT Three teens were ordered Monday to stand trial in the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico after a friend of the defendants testified that the victim was sucker-punched and kicked in the head during a late-night, epithet-filled melee. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/111697-immigrant-killing-students.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/pa-teens-ordered-to-trial-in-immigrants-death.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/pa-teens-ordered-to-trial-in-immigrants-death.htm Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:44:01 EDT Three teens were ordered Monday to stand trial in the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico after a friend of the defendants testified that the victim was sucker-punched and kicked in the head during a late-night, epithet-filled melee. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/111650-immigrant-killing-students.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080818/court-protests-halt-hearing-in-immigrant-killing.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080818/court-protests-halt-hearing-in-immigrant-killing.htm Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:05:11 EDT Some illegal immigrants arrested in workplace raids by federal agents will now have a resource to help them post bond and have a day in court. The National Immigrant Bond Fund will launch a fundraising campaign and make its national debut during a news conference at Casa de Maryland in Silver Spring on Monday. The immigrant advocacy group helped workers seized in a recent federal raid in Annapolis access the bond fund, which was formalized about three months ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080811/bond-fund-aids-illegal-immigrants-with-court-costs.htm Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:53:02 EDT Japan accepted more than 200 Indonesian nurses into the country on Thursday, an unprecedented move as Tokyo struggles to quell a labor shortage triggered by sinking fertility rates. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080807/indonesian-nurses-in-japan-under-free-trade-pact.htm Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:47:51 EDT Immigrant advocacy group Casa de Maryland on Monday received a $1.5 million donation from Citgo Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Venezuela's national oil company that is controlled by President Hugo Chavez. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080804/immigrant-group-gets-1-5m-donation-from-citgo.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:24:05 EDT The Justice Department said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant in a small northeastern Pennsylvania town. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/feds-join-probe-of-mexican-slain-in-pa-coal-town.htm Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:00:54 EDT Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. Brandon J. Piekarsky, 16, and Colin J. Walsh, 17, were charged as adults with homicide and ethnic intimidation in the July 12 attack on Luis Ramirez. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080726/pa-teens-charged-in-fatal-beating-of-immigrant.htm Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:29:28 EDT Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. Brandon J. Piekarsky, 16, and Colin J. Walsh, 17, were charged as adults with homicide and ethnic intimidation in the July 12 attack on Luis Ramirez. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/97961-correction-immigrant-killing-students.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080725/3-pa-teens-charged-in-fatal-beating-of-immigrant.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080725/3-pa-teens-charged-in-fatal-beating-of-immigrant.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:24:50 EDT Luis Ramirez came to the U.S. from Mexico six years ago to look for work, landing in this town in Pennsylvania's coal region. Here, he found steady employment, fathered two children and, his fiancee said, occasionally endured harassment by white residents. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/93627-immigrant-killing-students.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/immigrants-beating-death-exposes-tensions-in-pa.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/immigrants-beating-death-exposes-tensions-in-pa.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:12:30 EDT Minors who commit crimes while in the United States illegally will be turned over to federal immigration officials, a reversal of a nearly 20-year-old San Francisco policy, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85419-newsom-governor.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/young-offenders-in-sf-illegally-get-no-more-break.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/young-offenders-in-sf-illegally-get-no-more-break.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:17:38 EDT Minors who commit crimes while in the United States illegally will be turned over to federal immigration officials, a reversal of a nearly 20-year-old San Francisco policy, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/young-offenders-in-sf-illegally-get-no-more-break.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:14:05 EDT New York prosecutors have filed federal charges against a Texas man accused of holding illegal immigrants hostage in an attic. John Ernest Guerrero, of Pearland, Texas, is charged with kidnapping and unlawfully bringing in and harboring illegal immigrants. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/texas-man-charged-in-ny-with-holding-immigrants-hostage.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:16:33 EDT The U.S. government secretly gathered personal data on more than 130,000 immigrants in the run-up to the war in Iraq, according to a purported FBI document attached to a lawsuit filed Tuesday demanding more detail about how the information was gathered and used. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/feds-sued-over-alleged-mining-of-immigrants-data.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:41:54 EDT