Jul 6, 2011
The federal immigration court in Las Vegas is swamped. The caseload has more than doubled since May 2009, and that has created a tremendous backlog of cases, as the Las Vegas Sun's Karoun Demirjian reported this week. In May 2009, it took about 6 1/2 months on average for...
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The release of personal information of hundreds of Arizona police officers by a group of hackers on Thursday marks the third major release of documents and personal information on state law enforcement officials within the past week.
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One early evening in May, a Boston police officer arrested Lizandra DeMoura for traffic violations and driving without a license. In another city, she might have been booked and released for a court hearing. But in Boston, the 18-year-old was jailed overnight, taken to court, and handed over to...
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In a trailer park in the US state of Alabama, the reality of a strict new anti-illegal immigration law comes to the fore, a reality that cuts through the blaming, the endless bickering, the legal and political manoeuvring that preceded its enactment.
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If you thought the do-it-yourself anti-immigrant schemes couldn't get any more repellent, you were wrong. New laws in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are following — and in some ways outdoing — Arizona's attempt to engineer the mass expulsion of the undocumented, no matter the damage to the Constitution,...
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Louisiana and other states have recently approved laws requiring employers to use the federal E-Verify system to check the legal status of every worker and flag undocumented immigrants. But E-Verify alone is no solution for our nation's immigration problems, as President Barack Obama recently emphasized.
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Former U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) said Sunday that Jose Antonio Vargas, the former Washington Post reporter who came out last month as an illegal immigrant, should be allowed to "become an American."
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A Southern Baptist Convention leader says the group's policy arm supports a version of the DREAM Act — the proposed law that would allow illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to earn legal status, either by going to college or serving in the military.
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Immigration officials have called off the deportation of a Venezuelan man who legally married his same-sex partner in the United States, a move advocates hope will push the Obama administration to halt similar deportations and help repeal a federal law that recognizes only marriages between a man and a...
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Recently announced tweaks to a key immigration enforcement program should make the effort more true to its intended purpose and reassure critics. Secure Communities has been battered by those who say it deports some illegal immigrants who have no criminal background or only minor offenses on their records.
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