Trump administration seeks prompt immigration ruling

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration said it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene if a federal appeals court does not rule soon on the administration’s decision to end legal protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants. The U.S. Department of Justice wants the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to... Read More

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Immigration

October 11, 2018

Supreme Court wrestles with case on detention of immigrants

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with a case about the government’s ability to detain certain immigrants after they’ve served sentences for committing crimes in the United States. Several justices expressed concerns with the government’s reading of immigration law. Justice Stephen Breyer seemed perhaps the most sympathetic to the arguments of immigrants in... Read More

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Illegal Immigration, Immigration

October 9, 2018

Boston breathing easier after major raid on MS-13 gang

BOSTON (AP) — The streets are quieter these days in East Boston, but the marchers still gather in front of the police precinct house, as they have nearly every Thursday evening for the past four summers, after a rash of brutal killings and attempted murders by the violent street gang MS-13 struck fear into residents... Read More

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MS-13

October 8, 2018

Government won’t appeal freedom for pizza deliveryman

NEW YORK (AP) — An Ecuadorian pizza deliveryman freed from an immigration detention facility by a judge who criticized the handling of the case will remain free after the government declined Friday to pursue an appeal. Attorneys notified the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that the government won’t challenge a judge’s July... Read More

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Pablo Villaviecencio

October 5, 2018

Immigrants cheer ruling that lets them keep protected status

BOSTON (AP) — When Sudanese immigrant Hiwaida Elarabi learned the U.S. government was ending the temporary protected status that allowed her to live and work in the country legally for two decades, she sold off the restaurant that had been her life’s dream. Terrified to return to Sudan and unable to fathom a life without... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Illegal Immigration, Immigration

October 4, 2018

Judge blocks US from ending protections for some immigrants

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from ending protections that allowed immigrants from four countries to live and work legally in the United States, saying the move would cause “irreparable harm and great hardship.” U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco granted a request for a preliminary injunction... Read More

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Illegal Immigration

September 28, 2018

Judge reverses order barring court photos of murder suspect

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge on Thursday reversed an order barring journalists from publishing courtroom photographs of a Texas man charged with beating to death three men in Southern California. The Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times successfully challenged Superior Court Judge Gustavo Sztraicher’s order as an unconstitutional intrusion on free... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Ramon Escobar

September 27, 2018

Man with long immigration record is charged with killings

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man with a violent criminal history who was deported six times had no outstanding warrants when questioned last month about the disappearance of his aunt and so he was released, Houston police said Wednesday, when the man was charged in Los Angeles with the beating deaths of three men. Immigration... Read More

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Ramon Escobar

September 20, 2018

Judge: US can’t deny passport over refusing to pick gender

DENVER (AP) — U.S. officials cannot deny a passport application from an intersex Colorado resident based solely on a refusal to select male or female for gender, a federal judge said Wednesday. The U.S. State Department’s varied explanations for rejecting the application weren’t reasonable, U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson said in his ruling, forcing... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News, Sexual Orientation

Dana Zzyym

September 13, 2018

Meatpacking plant owner pleads guilty after immigration raid

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The owner of a Tennessee meatpacking plant where a federal immigration raid took more than 100 people into custody faces prison time after pleading guilty to employing unauthorized immigrants. The U.S. attorney’s office in Greeneville says 61-year-old James Brantley pleaded guilty Wednesday to tax fraud, wire fraud, and employment of unauthorized... Read More

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Immigration

September 12, 2018

ACLU announces deal in fight-related immigration detention

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lawsuit was settled by a Peruvian man who alleged police officers in a city north of Anchorage wrongfully detained him over his immigration status after he tried to break up a bar fight, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska announced Tuesday. In exchange for dropping his lawsuit against the... Read More

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ACLU, Immigration

September 7, 2018

Suit seeks payout for immigrant families separated at border

BOSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration should be held accountable for emotional trauma inflicted on children who were separated from their parents at the U.S. border, lawyers say in a lawsuit that could result in compensation for more than 2,000 immigrant families. The federal class-action lawsuit filed late Wednesday seeks unspecified monetary damages and... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Illegal Immigration, Immigration

September 5, 2018

Lawsuit filed over protest outside Trump rally in Phoenix

PHOENIX (AP) — Two advocacy groups alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday that police in Phoenix violated the free-speech rights of protesters outside a rally by President Donald Trump by firing tear gas as they were about to confront Trump supporters. The excessive force lawsuit against the Phoenix Police Department says police didn’t try to remove... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration, Phoenix Police Department

August 24, 2018

Autopsy finds Iowa student died from ‘sharp force injuries’

BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa college student who was allegedly abducted by a stranger while running last month in a small town was stabbed to death, investigators announced Thursday. Preliminary autopsy results from the state medical examiner’s office determined that 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts was the victim of a homicide who died from “multiple sharp... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Cristhian Bahena Rivera

Trump administration seeks prompt immigration ruling

Supreme Court wrestles with case on detention of immigrants

Boston breathing easier after major raid on MS-13 gang

Government won’t appeal freedom for pizza deliveryman

Immigrants cheer ruling that lets them keep protected status

Judge blocks US from ending protections for some immigrants

Judge reverses order barring court photos of murder suspect

Man with long immigration record is charged with killings

Judge: US can’t deny passport over refusing to pick gender

Meatpacking plant owner pleads guilty after immigration raid

ACLU announces deal in fight-related immigration detention

Suit seeks payout for immigrant families separated at border

Lawsuit filed over protest outside Trump rally in Phoenix

Autopsy finds Iowa student died from ‘sharp force injuries’

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