Border activist to testify in second federal trial

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona border activist is scheduled to testify Tuesday in the second criminal case against his actions as a member of a humanitarian aid group. Prosecutors say 37-year-old Scott Warren was arrested in early 2018 after harboring two men who sneaked across the U.S.-Mexico border. Warren says he was being a... Read More

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Scott Warren

November 13, 2019

NC woman gets prison for hiding foreign athletes from ICE

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The founder of a now-defunct private school in North Carolina has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for hiding foreign student-athletes from federal immigration authorities. News outlet report 65-year-old Evelyn Mack was sentenced Tuesday after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to harbor aliens. Court documents say Mack, owner and schoolmaster... Read More

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Evelyn Mack

November 12, 2019

As ruling nears, immigrant fights for anti-deportation act

NEW YORK (AP) — A Mexican immigrant fighting President Donald Trump’s attempt to end a program shielding young immigrants from deportation says he is nervous about the case finally being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. Martín Batalla Vidal is a lead plaintiff in one of the cases to preserve the Obama-era program known as... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

November 12, 2019

Second trial against activist who helped migrants to begin

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The federal government will again make a case against an Arizona border activist accused of harboring immigrants who had sneaked across the U.S.-Mexico border but who says he was simply helping two men in need. Scott Warren, 37, faces two counts of harboring when his trial starts Tuesday, five months after... Read More

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Scott Warren

November 11, 2019

Mexican immigrant fights for DACA as court ruling nears

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Martin Batalla Vidal

November 7, 2019

Migrants live in fear at Mexico-US border as violence flares

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Salvadoran woman seeking asylum in the United States spends her days holed up in her cousin’s cramped slum house just across the border in Mexico — too scared to leave after receiving a savage beating from two men three weeks ago while she was strolling home from a convenience store.... Read More

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November 7, 2019

House to hold hearing on Mississippi chicken plant raids

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three months after immigration agents arrested 680 Latino workers in a massive workplace sting at seven Mississippi chicken processing plants, a congressional committee plans a hearing into the raids and their effects. The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, led by Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, will hold the hearing Thursday in Jackson.... Read More

Business, Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

November 5, 2019

Arpaio aides ignored order to halt sweeps

PHOENIX (AP) — A court-appointed investigator concluded that high-ranking managers for former metro Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio disregarded a federal judge’s order for Arpaio to halt immigration sweeps targeting Latinos, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The investigator also found an internal probe was whitewashed to shield the managers from accountability. The findings... Read More

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Joe Arpaio

November 4, 2019

US judge blocks Trump’s health insurance rule for immigrants

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday put on hold a Trump administration rule requiring immigrants prove they will have health insurance or can pay for medical care before they can get visas. U.S. District Judge Michael Simon granted a temporary restraining order that prevents the rule from going into... Read More

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Immigration

November 1, 2019

Test shows little impact of citizenship on census form

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Including a citizenship question didn’t have much of an impact on overall response rates on a test for the 2020 Census, though responses by people who identified as Hispanic were down slightly, according to preliminary results released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau started sending out the test... Read More

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October 30, 2019

Immigrant victimized by ICE forgery doesn’t have to pay fees

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday criticized the Justice Department for seeking legal fees from a Mexican immigrant who was the victim of a forgery by a government lawyer. U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein on Tuesday denied the department’s effort to make Ignacio Lanuza and his attorneys pay legal fees for his unsuccessful... Read More

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Ignacio Lanuza

October 29, 2019

US experiments in Texas with plan to speed asylum decisions

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities are testing a program to speed up reviews of asylum claims at a Texas Border Patrol station, offering a glimpse of how the Trump administration may enforce its partial asylum ban. The pilot project, called the “Prompt Asylum Case Review” system, began Oct. 7 in El Paso,... Read More

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Asylum, Immigration

October 16, 2019

Lawyer says Arizona official miscast as human smuggler

PHOENIX (AP) — A lawyer for an Arizona elected official charged in three states in an international adoption scheme said Tuesday prosecutors have miscast his client as a human smuggler. Attorney Matt Long said Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen cares deeply for the mothers from the Marshall Islands whom he connected with adoptive parents in... Read More

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Paul Petersen

October 14, 2019

Judges block green card denials for immigrants on public aid

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal judges in three states on Friday temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s policy to deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps and other government benefits, dealing a setback to one of the president’s most aggressive moves yet to cut legal immigration and make it more based on employment... Read More

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Border activist to testify in second federal trial

NC woman gets prison for hiding foreign athletes from ICE

As ruling nears, immigrant fights for anti-deportation act

Second trial against activist who helped migrants to begin

Mexican immigrant fights for DACA as court ruling nears

Migrants live in fear at Mexico-US border as violence flares

House to hold hearing on Mississippi chicken plant raids

Arpaio aides ignored order to halt sweeps

US judge blocks Trump’s health insurance rule for immigrants

Test shows little impact of citizenship on census form

Immigrant victimized by ICE forgery doesn’t have to pay fees

US experiments in Texas with plan to speed asylum decisions

Lawyer says Arizona official miscast as human smuggler

Judges block green card denials for immigrants on public aid

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