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Search results for "asylum" ...
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Mexodus
The story provides an in depth look at the violence-driven exodus of the Mexican professionals, businessmen and middle class families to the U.S. and safer parts of Mexico. Major findings include sourcing of estimates of those displaced by the violence.
Tags: Mexico; immigration; asylum; exodus
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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
This book documents how the per-capita disability rate due to mental illness has increased six-fold since 1955, when Thorazine was introduced into asylum medicine. The number of adults on government disability has tripled since 1987, the year Prozac was introduced. Finally, the number of children receiving disability due to a serious mental illness has risen 35-fold since 1987.
Tags: medicine; psychiatry; psychiatric medicine; Thorazine; Prozac; disability; mental illness; National Institute of Mental Health; World Health Organization; American Psychiatric Association;
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Asylum Seekers
Mexican citizens are surrounded by violence and drugs in their native country. Many are seeking to become US citizens and find the only way is to gain political asylum or going through business channels. The US government is denying many asylum requests because they believe the law doesn’t fully apply to victims of Mexican organized crime. Further, many of these Mexican citizens have been sent back to Mexico, where a number of them face torture and even death.
Tags: cartel; victims; cases; American law; Gutierrez; safety; family; immigrants; danger; refugees
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A Troubled Diagnosis
"Overcrowding, violence and drug abuse have made New Jersey's Ancora Psychiatric Hospital a place where no one is safe. The report triggered a U.S. Civil Rights investigation into the hospital, plus reform bills in the Legislature."
Tags: mental health; asylum; clinical evaluation; DeWitt Crandell; human services; psych ward; suicide; mental illness; neglect
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Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President -- And Won
This book tells the story of how Yale law students and human rights lawyers teamed up in the early 1990s to take on the U.S. Government. 300 Haitian refugees were being held in secret Guantanamo Bay detention camps because they were HIV positive. The team of students and lawyers sued the government for their release, and won the case. The story is especially relevant in the post- 9/11 world, where Guantanamo Bay is once again a prominent example of government abuse.
Tags: Guantanamo Bay; Yale Law School; Harold Koh; student activism; HIV; AIDS; political asylum; political refugees; Haiti
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The Lunatics Have Taken over the Asylum
This investigative story of Alameda County's acute psychiatric hospital, John George, started when a doctor was beaten and strangled to death by a mentally ill patient. It was revealed that assaults by patients were common in the facility and hospital staff complained for years about 'inadequate safeguards' to protect them from potentially violent patients. This investigation also revealed that a lot of facilities like John George put 'severe restrictions' on how to handle violent patients, which can put many hospital staff in danger.
Tags: psychiatric hospital; mentally ill; OSHA; Occupational Safety and Health; patients; work safety
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The Light at the End of the Chunnel: What was built as a high-speed link for rich Europeans has become an underground railroad for refugees desperate to make it to England - no matter how dangerous the journey.
The Chunnel has become a very popular way of immigrating into England. Landesman talked with people who had done so and illuminates their experiences. He also discusses steps that have been taken to lower the number of people who immigrate this way and the dangers that are involved.
Tags: refugee camps; red cross; France; immigration; trains; Dover; asylum
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Us Pads its arrest record on terrorism
For years, the Justice Dept. has overstated its number of arrested and convicted terrorists, inflating the numbers with largely harmless crimes that have no connection to terrorism. Some examples of cases that were classified as terrorism: A tenant fighting eviction called his landlord, impersonated an FBI agent, and said the bureau did not want the tenant evicted, seven Chinese sailors were convicted of taking over a Taiwanese fishing boat and sailing into the US territory of Guam, where they hoped to win political asylum, and a man under treatment in California told his doctor he needed anti-psychotic medication because he was hearing voices telling him to kill president Bush.
Tags: justice; crime; corruption; FBI
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The Fixers
"The article explores the underground economy of immigration consultants - nonlawyers who ostensibly help immigrants fill out INS forms and applications, but who critics say illegally practice law and scam unsuspecting clients," according to the contest questionnaire. Hwang details how consultants work, and how undercover agents - hired by legal firms - combat the consultants' business to protect the public interest and their own business interests.
Tags: fraud; INS; attorneys; law; green cards; citizenship; political asylum; immigrants; California Chinese community; visas
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How a Canadian man married an American--and got deported
The article tells the story of a recent law intended to bust phony asylum-seekers that catches others, as well. It details the case of an American woman married to a Canadian man, who forgets to fill out a travel form for a visit to Toronto and is detained and ejected from the U.S.
Tags: immigrants; immigration; INS; law; deportation; Immigration and Nationality Act