Con alto riesgo de violencia acechando en Honduras, el defensor del pastor Max aboga por su vida Hoy, los nuevos abogados de inmigración del pastor Max, David Wolfe Leopold y Asociados, presentaron una moción de emergencia para reabrir su caso de deportación en la Junta de Apelaciones de Inmigración....
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17 de marzo de 2015
UPDATE: Pastor Max’s Attorney Files Emergency Motion to Reopen Deportation Case
With High Risk of Violence Lurking in Honduras, Pastor Max’s Attorney Makes Plea for Man’s Life Today, Pastor Max Villatoro’s new immigration lawyers, David Wolfe Leopold and Associates, filed an emergency motion to reopen his deportation case with the Board of Immigration Appeals. Pastor Max has been detained in...
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Will the Administration Apply the Balancing Test, or Separate Max from His Life and Family? The following is the latest update about Pastor Max Villatoro, who was detained last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Yesterday, ICE denied Pastor Max’s request for a stay of removal, despite the unprecedented public outcry and...
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17 de marzo de 2015
GOP’s Rabid Obsession With Immigration Continues With Six Hearings This Week
There they go again. You’d think that with Republicans still licking their wounds after a humiliating defeat in their internal battle to tie immigration action to DHS funding, they’d send their anti-immigrant obsession off on a small vacation. You’d think that, but you’d be wrong. Instead, both chambers of...
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17 de marzo de 2015
The Hill: WH: Lynch delay ‘unconscionable’ By Jordan Fabian Politico: Loretta Lynch fight gets heated By Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim Washington Post: With a seemingly innocuous bill, Senate manages to tie itself in knots By Mike DeBonis The Hill: Reid: GOP holding Loretta Lynch ‘hostage’ By Jordain Carney USA Today: Hillary Clinton...
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16 de marzo de 2015
Irish Undocumented Wish Happy St. Patrick’s Day to Their U.S. Counterparts
With Ireland’s Taoiseach Enda Kenny visiting President Obama to discuss world issues — including his own support for immigration reform — the Migrant Rights Centre gathered in Dublin, Ireland yesterday to unveil a giant St. Patrick’s Day banner in solidarity with America’s undocumented population. The banner, reading “Happy St....
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Despite Renewed Dept. Priorities, ICE Insists on Wasting Resources Deporting Beloved Pastor and Separating American Family Today, in the wake of a relentless, nationwide mobilization against the arrest of Mennonite Pastor Max Villatoro, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has decided to deny a stay of removal for Pastor Max, making the horrific...
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16 de marzo de 2015
In the Huffington Post, Juan Escalante Explains How the GOP’s Obsession with Immigrants is Blocking a Historical Nomination Over the weekend, after months of slow walking, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced plans to delay a vote on Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch even further. Bitter over their failed effort...
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Here’s what we know so far about Max Villatoro, a beloved pastor facing imminent deportation from his Iowa home of more than two decades: Late last Friday we learned that during the dead of night, Pastor Max was transferred to a detention facility in Louisiana. Louisiana is commonly the...
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Para respaldar al Gobierno en su iniciativa, los 14 Estados y el Distrito de Coilumbia (DC) han presentado ante la Corte de Apelaciones del Quinto Distruto de Nueva Orleans una declaración de “Amicus Curiae”. El “Amicus Curiae” (Amigo de la Corte) es una figura legal por la que un...
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