Rep. Lamar Smith and his anti-immigrant colleagues are opening another front in the war on women. With the help of Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, they're targeting women in detention – including undocumented immigrants, mothers, lawful permanent residents, survivors of torture, asylum seekers, and pregnant women.
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Rep. Lamar Smith and his anti-immigrant colleagues are opening another front in the war on women. With the help of Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, they're targeting women in detention – including undocumented immigrants, mothers, lawful permanent residents, survivors of torture, asylum seekers, and pregnant women.
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On the heels of Jaime Martinez's tragic deportation, La Opinion highlights the denials of prosecutorial discretion in several recent cases.
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Last June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton outlined criteria for prosecutorial discretion in a memo, which called on ICE officials to balance a range of factors, both positive and negative, in determining whether an individual would be entered into deportation proceedings or not. However,...
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Last June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton outlined criteria for prosecutorial discretion in a memo, which called on ICE officials to consider a range of factors in determining whether an individual should be deported or not.
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This morning, despite pleas from his wife, children and dozens of community members from Manitowoc, WI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported Jaime Martinez Espinal, leaving his US citizen wife, Jennifer, and their four children, in a state of financial and emotional ruin. Mr. Martinez's case is...
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Instead of working to pass comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans in Congress are pushing for the expulsion of all 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. Their plan, called "attrition through enforcement," is to ramp up deportations and make life in the U.S. so degrading and unbearable that the...
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In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and Florida's newly infamous Stand Your Ground law, many are beginning to look into the source of the law—the secretive, low-profile, highly influential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and Florida's newly infamous Stand Your Ground law, many are beginning to look into the source of the law—the secretive, low-profile, highly influential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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