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he population of the United States increased
by more than nine million people in the three years
after April 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau
-- and more than a quarter of the new Americans were
immigrants; more than half were Hispanics
and Asians.
More immigrants often means work for
the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which
now has about 6.1 million applications
pending for U.S. citizenship, green cards and various
visas. But the head of UCIS Eduardo
Aguirre, testified in Congress that he
plans to erase the application backlog by
September 2006.(AP)
Locally, Mayor
Michael Bloomberg is expected to appoint Guillermo
Linares,
the first Dominican to win elected office
in New York City, the new Commissioner of Immigrant
affairs following the resignation of Sayu Bhojwani
in May.
In this July edition of the citizen,
we take a look at new bills targeting scam artists,
immigrants’ request
for an alternative test to the Regents Exams for newly
arrived immigrant students, budget cut’s impact
on Asian senior citizens and a protest against
same sex
marriages. Articles from the Bengali, Chinese, Korean,
Polish and Spanish press, including stories from the
Independent Press Association's "Voices That Must
Be Heard." |