According to the ACLU, Rep. Lamar Smith's deceptively named "Keep Our Communities Safe Act" bill "would in fact lead to the detention of thousands more immigrants for years without first having a hearing before a judge."
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Civil rights attorneys and activists have sued to block an Alabama law that they claim would usurp federal immigration rules and position commercial farmers to replace migrant workers with employer-sponsored guest workers who would be relegated to a kind of indentured servitude.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), Immigration Subcommittee Chair Elton Gallegly (R-CA), and Immigration Subcommittee Vice Chair Steve King (R-IA) -- our "three amigos" on immigraton -- keep advancing their wish list of immigration "reforms" that would tighten the screws on immigrants of ALL statuses.
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One early morning two weeks ago, Christopher Zambrano was biking home on the 79th Street Causeway near North Bay Village when one of several men in black clothes riding in an SUV ordered him to stop.
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It's been more than 20 years since Miguel Aparicio has been in the United States. He moved here when he was 15 years old with his grandmother. He graduated high school, and with a cross-country scholarship, Aparicio was able to attend college.
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In a recent meeting with La Opinión's editorial board, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi criticizes the Administration's implementation of the controversial deportation program, "Secure Communities", La Opinión reports:"I understand that this is a program that is designed for a specific purpose, not simply to catch the undocumented but dangerous...
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Rep. Lamar Smith, the Republican Chair of the House Judiciary Committee -- and one of the notoriously anti-immigrant "Three Amigos," just can't help himself when it comes to attacking and demonizing immigrants. Today, This time, Smith -- the GOP's top political strategist for Latino outreach -- is taking on...
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Beatrice Kiarie, a mother of four has been in detention because of an INS "paperwork mistake" that could take three months to fix. This is another example of the real pain in immigrant communities due to the administration's unrelenting enforcement-only policies.
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As we've been mentioned in previous blog posts, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Detroit is one of the worst run offices in the country.
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Last May, Michigan DREAMer Ivan Nikolov and his mother were detained in a Michigan detention facility, where Ivan was forced to watch while his crying mother was strip-searched. Only a small, shoulder-length screen separated the two.
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