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Article: Elected officials meet in Florida: Caribbean nationals, others face INS round-up
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- The Weekly Gleaner
- Article date:
- February 12, 2003
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CARIBBEAN AND OTHER nation also may soon be subject to Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) registration requirements similar to current regulations imposed on immigrants from some Middle Eastern and South Asian countries and those with a criminal record may be faced with the risk of a new wave of deportation.
So says Jack E. Wallace, Attorney-at-Law for the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, a non-profit entity dedicated to protecting and promoting the human rights of immigrants.
"Last Thursday," he said, "a Bush spokesman was quoted as saying that the (registration) programme was going to continue to spread and would encompass Caribbean and other nationals from other parts of ...