US legal immigrant deportation report [HRW] News
US legal immigrant deportation report [HRW]

Forced Apart: Families Separated and Immigrants Harmed by United States Deportation Policy, Human Rights Watch, July 17, 2007 [finding that the mandatory deportation of legal immigrants convicted of crimes, including non-violent misdemeanors offenses, has separated an estimated 1.6 million children and adults]. Read the full text of the report [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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UN deadline for Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait expires

On January 15, 1991, the deadline issued by United Nations for Iraq to withdraw its troops from of Kuwait expired. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq until January 15, 1991 to leave.