Sep
28
Today, U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn ruled to keep many of the key provisions in HB 56, Alabama’s restrictive immigration law recently challenged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and civil and immigrant rights groups. While Judge Blackburn ruled to enjoin some provisions of HB 56, she found that the DOJ and civil and immigrant …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/09/28/federal-judge-rules-to-keeps-key-provisions-of-alabama%e2%80%99s-restrictive-immigration-law/
Sep
07
DHS’s recent announcement on enforcement priorities suggests that the agency, along with the Department of Justice, is serious about trying to target those persons who pose a threat to public safety. Unfortunately, there has been little official communication from either agency about the initiatives underway to review current immigration court cases or to issue broader …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/09/07/president-obama%e2%80%99s-very-legal-move-on-immigration/
Aug
29
Today, the federal judge hearing the case against Alabama’s harsh anti-immigrant law HB 56 issued a temporary order preventing the law from going into effect on September 1, 2011. The judge made no ruling on the merits of the pending motions but rather temporary blocked it to buy herself more time to consider the numerous …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/08/29/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-alabamas-immigration-law/
Aug
02
Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed yet another lawsuit against extreme state-level immigration laws—this time against Alabama’s HB 56. Already the subject of a class action lawsuit filed by the ACLU and other immigrants’ rights groups, Alabama’s HB 56 would require local law enforcement to verify the immigration status of those stopped for traffic …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/08/02/department-of-justice-seeks-injunction-against-alabama%e2%80%99s-anti-immigrant-law/
Jun
27
Today, a federal judge in Georgia granted a preliminary injunction against key provisions of the state’s immigration law, HB 87, which was slated to take effect Friday. Today’s decision follows another federal court decision handed down last week in Indiana which also blocked key provisions of the state’s new immigration law, SB 590. And these …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/06/27/federal-courts-block-key-provisions-of-restrictive-immigration-laws-in-georgia-and-indiana/
May
26
By Mary Giovagnoli and Melissa Crow Today’s Supreme Court decision upholding Arizona’s law requiring employers to use E-verify or risk losing their business licenses will, like all Supreme Court decisions, take some time to digest. What’s surprising, however, is how quickly some are already jumping to the conclusion that today’s decision signals how the Supreme …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/05/26/scotus-e-verify-ruling-no-bellwether-for-fate-of-sb1070/
Apr
12
In a clean sweep for the rule of law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction yesterday against four key provisions of SB 1070—Arizona’s notoriously misguided attempt to drive undocumented immigrants from the state. The court’s comprehensive ruling left in place a lower court decision from July which temporarily …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/12/four-cheers-for-the-ninth-circuit%e2%80%99s-ruling-on-sb-1070/
Mar
14
Virtually every time anyone proposes administrative reforms to the immigration system, someone in Congress calls it amnesty. The discussion at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) today, in which immigration policy experts discussed six administrative fixes that the Obama team could implement without legislation, shows just how much can be done with executive branch authority. The …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/03/14/group-highlights-administrative-fixes-to-the-immigration-system-absent-federal-reform/
Nov
02
It’s not every day that federal officials cite Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) as a limit on—rather than an expansion of—the authority of local police to assist in immigration enforcement. But a veteran Justice Department attorney made just that point during arguments in a federal appeals court yesterday while defending an …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/02/will-the-fate-of-arizona%e2%80%99s-sb-1070-hinge-on-the-law-that-created-the-287g-program/
Sep
02
Today, the Department of Justice filed suit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his refusal to hand over documents in an ongoing federal investigation into allegations of discriminatory practices based on a person’s national origin (racial profiling) and unconstitutional searches and seizures. According to the Arizona Republic, “the lawsuit comes after weeks of back-and-forth …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/09/02/doj-sues-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-for-failure-to-cooperate-in-federal-investigation/
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