Immigrant advocates in NC get word out about proposed NC immigration reforms
A North Carolina bill that would grant driving privileges to immigrants living in the state illegally is driving a complex and layered debate within state borders. The bill, titled the “RECLAIM NC...
View ArticleJustice Department steps into NYC stop-and-frisk lawsuit
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the New York Police Department if she rules the department's...
View ArticleJustice Dept steps into NYC stop-and-frisk lawsuit
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the New York Police Department if the rules of the department's...
View ArticleAmendments to Immigration Bill Weaken Enforcement and Border Security
Key flaw remains: Amnesty before improvements to border security Download image Center for Immigration Studies Logo. (PRNewsFoto/Center for Immigration Studies) WASHINGTON, June 13, 2013...
View ArticleMCSO, Arpaio pull back from immigration raids, sweeps.
Staff Phoenix Business Journal The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is pulling back from its immigration raids and other programs aimed at immigrants illegally in the country. The MCSO has taken...
View ArticleFighting Back Against Overcriminalization: The Elements of a Mistake of Law...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) Overcriminalization continues to ensnare average citizens in the criminal justice system for committing acts that are not morally blameworthy. Furthermore, these...
View ArticleThe Injustice of Imposing Domestic Criminal Liability for a Violation of...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) For six years, Abner Schoenwetter languished in U.S. federal prison. His crime? Importing Honduran lobsters in violation of Honduran law. Despite having broken no...
View ArticleJudge Can Impose Monitor over 'Stop and Frisk': Justice Department
By Devlin Barrett The Justice Department weighed in late Wednesday night on New York City's controversial stop and frisk policy, saying that a federal judge overseeing a trial on the issue does have...
View ArticleWhole Foods Slammed For ‘English-Only' Policy As Petition Gathers Signatures
Upscale grocery store Whole Foods continues to face fallout over allegations that it punished two Hispanic employees in New Mexico for objecting to a policy restricting the use of Spanish at work. CNN...
View ArticleSC delegation at odds over immigration reform
WASHINGTON — A Republican proposal to deputize local police as immigration agents would improve public safety, law enforcement officials said Thursday. But Democrats said it would reopen the fractious...
View ArticleKing Co. councilman moves to bar ICE jail holds
SEATTLE (AP) — A King County councilman introduced on Thursday a measure that bars authorities from honoring jail holds of immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally ordered by federal...
View ArticleAccused Arizona human-smuggler arrested in Palm Beach County
The people he allegedly helped smuggle into the country knew him only as David. He had an apartment on East Broadway Road in Mesa, Arizona and kept a so-called drop house for undocumented immigrants...
View ArticleHouse debates deputizing police as immigration agents
Story Highlights Republican proposal would permit state to pass their own immigration lawsBill reignited debate on how much power states should have in identifying illegal immigrantsBill also would...
View ArticleHouse Republicans: What happened? You Were Doing So Well
For months, the anti-immigration policies and rhetoric that threatened the electoral viability of the Republican Party was in remission. From the moment Gov. Romney conceded defeat, sensible...
View ArticleRacial profiling provision of immigration bill is scrutinized
WASHINGTON -- A coalition of civil liberties and immigrant advocates led by Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin is hoping to strengthen a provision in the Senate's sweeping immigration bill that would prohibit...
View ArticleJudge who ruled Ariz. sheriff’s office profiled Latinos to mull proposed...
PHOENIX — A judge who ruled an Arizona sheriff’s office had racially profiled Latinos in its signature immigration patrols will hold a hearing to...
View ArticleJoe Arpaio Racial Profiling Case Gets Hearing
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge who ruled an Arizona sheriff's office had racially profiled Latinos in its signature immigration patrols will hold a hearing Friday to consider proposed changes aimed at...
View Article>Judge to mull possible remedies in profiling case
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge who ruled an Arizona sheriff's office had racially profiled Latinos in its signature immigration patrols will hold a hearing Friday to consider proposed changes aimed at...
View ArticleJudge to mull possible remedies in profiling case
A judge who ruled an Arizona sheriff's office had racially profiled Latinos in its signature immigration patrols will hold a hearing Friday to consider proposed changes aimed at ensuring that the...
View ArticleArizona: Monitor Is Likely in Case Against Maricopa County Sheriff
A federal judge who ruled that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office racially profiled Latinos delayed instituting remedies on Friday to allow parties time to agree on options, but he indicated a...
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