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Daily Archives: April 20, 2018
Appeals court rules against Trump policy punishing sanctuary cities
President Donald Trump's effort to crack down on sanctuary cities suffered another legal setback Thursday as a federal appeals court in Chicago upheld a nationwide injunction against making federal grant funding continge ...
National Teacher of the Year Works With Refugee Students
For much of the past decade, Mandy Manning has taught at the Newcomer Center at Joel E. Ferris High School in Spokane, Washington. The center has a specialized English language development program for newly arrived refug ...
The Trump administration failed to study immigration vetting. So I did.
In light of this failure, I independently completed the study that Trump asked for. Its conclusions undermine his claims. ...
Deportation Is A Reproductive Rights Issue
Ale lost her green card and was put in line for deportation after a 2011 arrest and conviction on several charges including driving under the influence. She spent two years in Eloy Detention Center in Southern Arizona. ...
Migrant Caravan Asylum Seekers Being ‘Illegally’ Turned Away At Border, Rights Group Says
"There have already been cases of people being illegally turned away by border officials when trying to request asylum at the U.S. border," a spokesperson for Pueblo Sin Fronteras, an immigrant rights group that organize ...
“Queen of the hill”: the obscure House rule that could force the House to take up immigration bills
There are still a few Republicans in Congress who are interested in addressing the status of the 690,000 or so young unauthorized immigrants facing the loss of their temporary deportation protections under the Deferred A ...
Who polices the immigration police?
Early one winter morning last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were scouting the last-known address of a fugitive they had labeled Target #147 when they happened upon Isabel Karina Ruiz-Roque. ...
Swift Injustice
Immigration judges have much larger caseloads than federal district court judges, who operate under very different rules. Still, our research on incentives for federal district court judges suggests that performance-base ...
Immigrant Detainees Claim They Were Forced to Clean Bathrooms to Pay for Their Own Toilet Paper
The Stewart Detention Center in rural Georgia has been called “the black hole of America’s immigration system” for overusing solitary confinement, cutting cornerson mental health care, and deporting asylum seekers at ext ...
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