Ben Winograd
Author's details
Name: Ben Winograd
Date registered: November 2, 2010
URL: http://immigrationimpact.com/author/ben-winograd/
Biography
Ben Winograd is a Staff Attorney at the American Immigration Council. He focuses on legal issues related to the enforcement of immigration law, including the rights of respondents in removal proceedings and federal collaboration with state and local governments. He received his J.D. cum laude from Georgetown Law in 2010. He worked as a reporter before and during law school, and has written for the Associated Press, SCOTUSblog, and The Wall Street Journal. He also worked as a freelance journalist in Arizona covering border and immigration issues. He is admitted to practice law in California; his practice is limited to cases in federal courts and before the immigration agencies.
Latest posts
- Obama Administration Files Suit Against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio — May 10, 2012
- After Justice Department Admits Mistake, Immigrant Advocates Ask Supreme Court to Fix Prior Opinion — May 7, 2012
- Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Arguments Over Arizona SB 1070 — April 25, 2012
- Five Things to Know Before the Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Arizona SB1070 — April 23, 2012
- Alabama Lawmakers Propose Extensive Changes to State’s Immigration Law, HB 56 — April 6, 2012
Most commented posts
- Despite Limits, How Padilla v. Kentucky Will Endure — 7 comments
- Crunching—and Clarifying—the Numbers on Prosecutorial Discretion — 5 comments
- Report Reveals Disturbing Truths Behind Border Patrol Transportation Raids — 2 comments
- ICE Distorts Facts in Debate over Immigration Detainers — 2 comments
- Supreme Court Brief on SB 1070: Arizona Seeking Confrontation, not Cooperation — 2 comments
Author's posts listings
Earlier today, the Department of Justice filed suit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff’s Office alleging a pattern and practice of discriminatory behavior against Latinos. According to the complaint, officers under Arpaio’s command targeted Latino drivers during traffic stops and neighborhood sweeps, and used ethnic slurs against Latino inmates with limited …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/05/10/obama-administration-files-suit-against-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio/
Of the many problems with our immigration system, one of the least known—but most frustrating—is that when the government deports immigrants whose appeals are still pending, it offers little to no help returning to the United States if they ultimately prevail in court. Immigrant advocates were thus perplexed when the Justice Department filed a Supreme …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/05/07/after-justice-department-admits-mistake-immigrant-advocates-ask-supreme-court-to-fix-prior-opinion/
Almost two years to the day after Arizona enacted the notorious immigration law known as SB 1070, the Supreme Court heard arguments in what could be the first of many cases over the validity of the measure. Although most critics of the law have focused on its potential for civil rights violations, the only question …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/25/supreme-court-asks-hard-questions-at-oral-arguments-over-arizona-sb-1070/
In less than 48 hours, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Arizona v. United States, the long-anticipated dispute over the legality of SB 1070. More than any case in recent history, the dispute raises fundamental questions about the role of states in the enforcement of federal immigration law. The Court’s decision could thus …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/23/five-things-to-know-before-the-supreme-court-argument-on-arizona-sb1070/
Yesterday evening, lawmakers in Alabama introduced a bill proposing extensive changes to HB 56, the state’s notorious immigration enforcement law. The proposed bill follows extensive criticism from civil and immigrants’ rights leaders about HB 56, as well as numerous lawsuits that prevented more than a dozen of the law’s provisions from taking effect. While passage …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/06/alabama-lawmakers-propose-extensive-changes-to-states-immigration-law-hb-56/
Proponents of Arizona SB 1070 often insist that the infamous immigration law enjoys considerable public support. Yet even if such claims are correct, one would hardly know it from the flood of briefs filed at the Supreme Court this week opposing the measure. Unlike the monolithic set of briefs filed last month in support of …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/29/supreme-court-flooded-with-briefs-opposing-arizona-sb-1070/
When Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wagged her finger in President Obama’s face at a Phoenix airport earlier this year, she may have been seeking to score political points with the White House’s ideological opponents. What the governor may not have realized, however, is that she was giving the Obama administration the photographic equivalent of its …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/20/supreme-court-brief-on-sb-1070-arizona-seeking-confrontation-not-cooperation/
Late last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) instructed its attorneys to review matters pending before immigration courts in search of low-priority cases warranting prosecutorial discretion. But of the approximately 300,000 immigrants now in deportation proceedings, how many stand to potentially benefit from the initiative? In recent days, immigrant advocates have fretted the figure could …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/14/crunching-and-clarifying-the-numbers-on-prosecutorial-discretion/
Immigration hardliners never hesitate to claim the mantle of “states’ rights” when defending laws like Arizona SB 1070. But those wanting local cops to double as federal immigration agents were conspicuously silent at a congressional hearing on Wednesday on the Scott Gardner Act, a bill that (among other things) would require police to run extra …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/08/why-the-scott-gardner-act-is-unconstitutionaland-a-bad-idea/
February was an important month in the debate over immigration “detainers,” the controversial tool used to strong-arm local jails into holding immigrants on the federal government’s behalf. In Connecticut, a class-action lawsuit was filed attacking detainers’ many legal vulnerabilities, and the Governor announced that state jails will not honor them in all cases. In Illinois, …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/01/ice-distorts-facts-in-debate-over-immigration-detainers/
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