Judge’s partial lifting of Trump ban gives refugees hope

SEATTLE (AP) — After hearing heartbreaking stories of refugees who have struggled to reconnect with their families and listening to the plight of others who strive to leave dangerous situations, a federal judge said he would try to issue a ruling on a motion to block a Trump administration ban on refugees before Christmas. Late... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration, Trump

December 24, 2017

Judge partially lifts Trump administration ban on refugees

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Seattle on Saturday partially lifted a Trump administration ban on certain refugees after two groups argued that the policy prevented people from some mostly Muslim countries from reuniting with family living legally in the United States. U.S. District Judge James Robart heard arguments Thursday in lawsuits from the... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration, Trump

December 20, 2017

Detroit judge mulling release of detained Iraqi nationals

DETROIT (AP) — Lindsey Hamama has one gift on her Christmas list: to have her father home. A federal judge in Detroit is mulling whether to release her father, Usama “Sam” Hamama, who was apprehended by immigration officials as part of a roundup in June, and hundreds of others whose deportations to Iraq were suspended... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News, Politics

Immigration, Trump

December 7, 2017

ACLU: New Mexico deputies kept pulling over black US agent

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A black female federal immigration agent on assignment in New Mexico was repeatedly pulled over by sheriff’s deputies — and twice by the same deputy — with no probable cause, according to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico. The group filed a lawsuit Tuesday in... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

FBI, Racial Profiling

December 6, 2017

Mexican acquitted of murder faces gun, immigration charges

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. authorities on Tuesday charged a Mexican man with new immigration and gun violations less than a week after a San Francisco jury acquitted him of murder for the shooting death of Kate Steinle, a case that helped fuel a fierce national debate on immigration. A federal grand jury in San... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Immigration, News

December 5, 2017

Couple to be sentenced for harboring 5 immigrants who died

DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors say the former owners of a Detroit-area restaurant deserve seven years in prison for the deaths of five immigrants who didn’t escape a house fire. A teenager and four men from Mexico were in the U.S. illegally, working at a restaurant owned by Roger Tam and wife Ada Mei Lei. The... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration

December 4, 2017

Fight over Trump travel restrictions back to appeals courts

SEATTLE (AP) — For most of the time Syrian refugee Mohammad Al Zayed has been in the United States, judges have been wrestling with the Trump administration’s efforts to impose travel restrictions that he says would keep him from seeing relatives who remain overseas. It’s taken an emotional toll — one that continues this week... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, National Security, News

Immigration, National Security, Travel Ban, Trump

December 3, 2017

How the Kate Steinle case became an immigration flashpoint

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury’s decision to acquit a Mexican man in the 2015 slaying of Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier has reignited the furor of critics who in the two years since have pointed to Steinle’s death as evidence of the need for tougher immigration policies. President Donald Trump on Friday... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration, San Francisco, Shooting

December 2, 2017

Man acquitted in San Francisco shooting got lucky on lawyer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jose Inez Garcia Zarate grinned broadly and hugged his public defender tightly immediately after a jury acquitted him of killing a young woman on a San Francisco pier. Getting Matt Gonzalez to represent him was unquestionably a stroke of good luck for the five-times-deported Mexican national in the case that caused... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration, Shooting

December 2, 2017

San Francisco defends sanctuary status as backlash mounts

The attacks on San Francisco and other cities with similar immigration policies began moments after a jury acquitted a Mexican man... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Guns, Immigration

December 1, 2017

Jury acquits Mexican man in San Francisco pier killing

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury on Thursday found a Mexican man not guilty in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier that touched off a fierce national immigration debate two years ago, rejecting possible charges ranging from involuntary manslaughter to first-degree murder. The shooting of Kate Steinle came during the presidential... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Guns, Immigration, Shooting

November 28, 2017

California lawyer admits running $50 million visa-fraud scam

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California attorney pleaded guilty Monday to running a scam that authorities say collected more than $50 million from wealthy Chinese investors seeking green cards. Victoria Chan, 35, of the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte faces up to 45 years in prison when she is sentenced July 9... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Fraud, Immigration

November 22, 2017

Judge’s ruling doesn’t end legal fight over sanctuary cities

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s executive order to cut funding from sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities faced a big setback when a federal judge ruled it was unconstitutional. But the legal fight over so-called sanctuary cities is far from over. Here’s a look at Monday’s ruling and what other... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration, Sanctuary City

November 22, 2017

Jurors weigh San Francisco pier killing 2 years after death

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The criminal case against a Mexican man accused of killing a woman on a crowded San Francisco pier is coming to a close more than two years after setting off a national firestorm over immigration. The jury of six women and six men is considering charges of murder and involuntary manslaughter.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Immigration, News

Guns, Immigration

Judge’s partial lifting of Trump ban gives refugees hope

Judge partially lifts Trump administration ban on refugees

Detroit judge mulling release of detained Iraqi nationals

ACLU: New Mexico deputies kept pulling over black US agent

Mexican acquitted of murder faces gun, immigration charges

Couple to be sentenced for harboring 5 immigrants who died

Fight over Trump travel restrictions back to appeals courts

How the Kate Steinle case became an immigration flashpoint

Man acquitted in San Francisco shooting got lucky on lawyer

San Francisco defends sanctuary status as backlash mounts

Jury acquits Mexican man in San Francisco pier killing

California lawyer admits running $50 million visa-fraud scam

Judge’s ruling doesn’t end legal fight over sanctuary cities

Jurors weigh San Francisco pier killing 2 years after death

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