Jul 18
Late Tuesday night, opponents of Arizona SB 1070 filed new papers in court seeking to block Section 2(B) from taking effect, arguing that state legislators were driven by anti-Latino bias and that the provision will inevitably result in constitutional violations. The motion, filed by civil rights groups, cited numerous previously undisclosed emails from former State …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/07/18/breaking-new-injunction-sought-in-challenge-to-arizona-sb-1070/
Jul 17
Yesterday’s TIME Magazine carried a story on what it billed as the Obama administration’s “next immigration battle”—the spread of state and local laws around the country preventing jails from holding immigrant detainees on behalf of the federal government. California and Chicago appear poised to join the list, and federal officials have floated the possibility of …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/07/17/why-the-administration-should-avoid-a-fight-over-anti-detainer-laws/
Jul 16
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio may finally face the music this week in a federal trial in Phoenix. The renowned anti-immigrant media glutton and self-proclaimed “America’s Toughest Sheriff” stands accused of discrimination and harassment charges in a class action lawsuit involving the ACLU and MALDEF. Arpaio has a long history of abuse and discrimination in …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/07/16/sheriff-joe-arpaio-to-stand-trial-on-racial-profiling-charges/
Jul 13
It is election season and voter-fraud hysteria is in the air. A raft of restrictive voter ID legislation from coast to coast is aimed primarily at one imaginary problem: fraudulent voting by immigrants who are not U.S. citizens. Supporters of these laws like to pretend that hordes of non-citizens are stampeding into voting booths and …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/07/13/voter-id-laws-tackle-non-existent-problem-of-immigrant-vote-fraud/
Jul 12
By Naike Savain Immigration courts are notorious for significant backlogs and lacking sufficient resources to timely and justly adjudicate the hundreds of thousands of removal cases pending before them. And, despite recent announcements that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is exercising prosecutorial discretion in some removal cases, immigration courts throughout the country struggle to …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/07/12/how-overburdened-immigration-courts-can-be-improved/
Jul 11
On any given day, approximately 300,000 immigrants in the United States have pending removal proceedings to determine whether they will be deported from the country. Of those, about 10% are kept in detention centers while proceedings are pending, with the rest are subject to alternatives ranging from the posting of bail to the use of …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/07/11/for-immigrants-alternatives-to-detention-not-all-theyre-cracked-up-to-be/
Jul 10
Prior to the Supreme Court’s recent decision on Arizona SB 1070, other states that passed immigration laws were also embroiled in complicated legal battles. Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Utah all passed restrictive immigration laws, parts of which were challenged in court and subsequently enjoined pending the Supreme Court’s ruling on Arizona. Now that the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/07/10/some-states-attempt-to-move-forward-on-immigration-laws-following-supreme-court-decision/
Jul 09
Less than three weeks after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Arizona v. United States—which struck down three provisions of SB 1070 and invited future challenges to a fourth—civil rights groups are back in court resuming their challenges to copycat laws in other states. Going forward, the lawsuits will focus more on how to interpret …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/07/09/civil-rights-groups-resume-legal-challenge-to-alabamas-immigration-law/
Jul 06
The California state Senate overwhelmingly approved the TRUST Act on Thursday, marking a significant step for a piece of legislation aimed at limiting the humanitarian impact of the Secure Communities program. The bill must still pass the state Assembly and be signed by Gov. Jerry Brown to become law, but its success thus far represents …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/07/06/in-california-trust-act-one-step-closer-to-becoming-law-2/
Jul 05
By Shelby Pasell Human trafficking is a big yet commonly overlooked problem in the United States and abroad. Each year, roughly 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders, according to the Department of State, with about 17,500 into the United States. Despite an uptick in laws aimed at addressing this problem, U.S. law …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/07/05/why-human-trafficking-cases-are-falling-through-the-cracks/
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