Federal judge temporarily blocks deportation of pizza worker

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked the deportation of a New York pizza shop worker to his native Ecuador after he was arrested while making a delivery to a Brooklyn Army base. Attorneys for The Legal Aid Society obtained the temporary stay for Pablo Villavicencio after a hearing in Manhattan... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration, Pablo Villavicencio

May 21, 2018

Arizona ‘Dreamers’ struggle after losing cheaper tuition

PHOENIX (AP) — David Montenegro worked part-time restaurant jobs and took advantage of Arizona’s lower in-state tuition as he labored through years of college. Now a senior with the goal of becoming a teacher nearly in sight, the 29-year-old Mexico-born immigrant who arrived in the U.S. at age 11 faces a new hurdle. Montenegro and... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Dreamers, Immigration

May 15, 2018

1st appeals court to weigh Trump’s decision to end DACA

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration will try to convince a U.S. appeals court Tuesday that it was justified in ending an Obama-era immigration policy that shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be the first federal appeals court to hear arguments about President... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

DACA, Immigration

May 10, 2018

Legal limbo: US denies immigrant suspects their day in court

BOSTON (AP) — Some immigrants living in the country illegally and accused of crimes sit in legal limbo, caught in a tug of a war between local prosecutors and federal immigration authorities who won’t let them appear in court because they fear being denied the opportunity to deport them. Advocates for immigrants say the hardball... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration

May 10, 2018

Texas suit could speed DACA’s path to Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three judges have ordered the Trump administration to continue a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. Now, a lawsuit filed last week in Texas seeks to shut down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and may create a legal clash that could speed the issue’s... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

DACA, Immigration

May 2, 2018

Is Trump right about judges’ leanings? Maybe, review shows

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump has called courts unfair and political and repeatedly assailed the 9th Circuit, the U.S. court system’s westernmost division, where some of his key immigration policies have stalled. Other observers describe America’s judges as conservative or liberal, implying they bring an ideology to their decision-making that goes beyond a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration

April 27, 2018

Federal agency says it lost track of 1,475 migrant children

Federal officials lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children last year after a government agency placed the minors in the homes of adult sponsors in communities across the country, according to testimony before a Senate subcommittee Thursday. The Health and Human Services Department has a limited budget to track the welfare of vulnerable unaccompanied minors,... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration

April 20, 2018

‘This is my family’: Where the travel ban debate hits home

NEW YORK (AP) — At the New York City convenience store where he works the overnight shift, Radad Alborati takes a sip of coffee and surveys his life. His wife is stuck in war-torn Yemen after his yearslong effort to bring her to the U.S. ended last month with a few phrases on a letter... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration, Travel Ban

April 18, 2018

Supreme Court strikes down as vague part of immigration law

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced. The court’s 5-4 decision — in an unusual alignment in which new Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberal justices — concerns... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration, Supreme Court

April 17, 2018

GOP attorneys general support citizenship question on census

A Trump administration plan to ask people if they are U.S. citizens during the 2020 census has prompted a legal uproar from Democratic state attorneys general, who argue it could drive down participation and lead to an inaccurate count. Yet not a single Republican attorney general has sued — not even from states with large... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News, Politics

Eric Schneiderman, Immigration

April 13, 2018

Trump administration pauses legal orientation for immigrants

Immigrant advocates are outraged by a U.S. government decision to put on hold a program that helps tens of thousands of immigrants navigate the country’s complex immigration court system. The $8 million-a-year program that provides legal orientation to immigrants in deportation proceedings is on hold pending review, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, which... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration

April 3, 2018

Justice Department imposes quotas on immigration judges

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration has introduced production quotas for immigration judges in an effort to reduce enormous court backlogs, raising concern among judges and attorneys that decisions may be unfairly rushed. The Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review said judges must complete 700 cases a year to earn a satisfactory grade.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration

March 30, 2018

US judge opens door for thousands to apply for asylum

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Seattle opened the door Thursday for thousands of immigrants to apply for asylum, finding that the Department of Homeland Security has routinely failed to notify them of a deadline for filing their applications. U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez issued the ruling in a class-action lawsuit brought by... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration

March 27, 2018

GOP-led states back Trump in California ‘sanctuary’ lawsuit

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Texas and more than a dozen other states led by Republican governors got behind the Trump administration on Monday in its lawsuit over California’s so-called sanctuary laws that protect people in the U.S. illegally. California’s laws are designed to interfere with or block federal immigration enforcement but the state does not... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, National Security, News

California, Immigration, Sanctuary City

Federal judge temporarily blocks deportation of pizza worker

Arizona ‘Dreamers’ struggle after losing cheaper tuition

1st appeals court to weigh Trump’s decision to end DACA

Legal limbo: US denies immigrant suspects their day in court

Texas suit could speed DACA’s path to Supreme Court

Is Trump right about judges’ leanings? Maybe, review shows

Federal agency says it lost track of 1,475 migrant children

‘This is my family’: Where the travel ban debate hits home

Supreme Court strikes down as vague part of immigration law

GOP attorneys general support citizenship question on census

Trump administration pauses legal orientation for immigrants

Justice Department imposes quotas on immigration judges

US judge opens door for thousands to apply for asylum

GOP-led states back Trump in California ‘sanctuary’ lawsuit

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