INS

  • The INS runaround

    The immigration service's new registration plan is supposed to help fight terrorism. It's also locking people up without explanation.
  • The politics of protection

    Are women who flee domestic violence political refugees? The INS says they could be, but controversial new rules could come too late for the woman whose case inspired them.
  • Elian's closing chapter?

    A legal expert says the Cuban boy's legal saga is slowly winding down.
  • A deafening silence

    Why haven't Latino leaders spoken out about the LAPD scandal?
  • Caught in the LAPD cross-fire

    Does the Los Angeles Police Department's war on gangs target even those who are trying to end the violence?
  • The roots of a hostage crisis

    The angry Cuban detainees in Louisiana are just some of the illegal immigrants trapped in the INS's permanent limbo.
  • Seventeen brothels of Asian sex slaves exposed in Atlanta

    Is sexual slavery a barbaric Old World myth or a common contemporary crime?
  • Home Movies by Charles Taylor

    Jack Nicholson is at his best playing a burned-out border patrol officer in a small Texas town.
  • Stay Out, Stay Alive

    The INS hopes the mounting death toll of undocumented immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border will keep others out. Not likely.

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