Nelson Javier Avila Lopez was deported by the U.S. to Honduras in October despite a court order barring his removal. Now it turns out that Lopez, 20, was among the estimated 360 trapped inmates killed in a massive Honduran prison fire last month.
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For the last few years, I have been engaging fellow law enforcement leaders in a dialogue about sensible immigration reform. Immigration is an issue that affects our work as cops on a daily basis. But, sometimes I'm asked whether the fact that law enforcement is engaged in immigration enforcement...
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Feb 15, 2012
Eleven men arrested in 2007 immigration raid in New Haven have reached an unprecedented settlement with the federal government paying them $350,000 and effectively ending any immigration proceedings against them.
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A group of Jewish boys in yarmulkes and winter coats walked past the "Taste of Mexico" restaurant on Lawler Street last week on their way home from school. Minutes later, a Somali man wearing a keffiyeh scarf around his neck passed by, perhaps on his way to the town's...
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For the first time in years, Mayra Godoy, who came to this country after fleeing Guatemala's civil war in 1991, ought to have reason for optimism. As an undocumented immigrant with no criminal record and deep roots (including a U.S. citizen child), Mayra is just the kind of person...
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Advocates in Tennessee claim Latinos in Shelbyville were purposely coerced by federal officials during immigration raids. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) denies the allegations.
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An immigration raid on the grounds of a Detroit church during religious services is the latest incident of profiling of the Latino community, advocates and religious leaders said Wednesday as they announced details of the incident.
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Local and national immigration experts spoke on a call with reporters to relate stories and highlight concerns that Secure Communities and other police-immigration collaboration efforts are destroying the relationship between police and immigrants and making communities across the country less safe.
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Aug 15, 2011
In 2009, Alba and Eugenio were making almost twice the federal minimum wage, plus benefits, cleaning a skyscraper for a national janitorial company. With two toddlers, the Mexican couple enjoyed relative prosperity in a tidy one-bedroom duplex in a working-class neighborhood here.
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A mother strip-searched in front of her teenage son; parents stalked by immigration officials outside of their children's elementary school; a man shoved into a wall so hard that the plaster cracks; and a pregnant woman denied medication. Troubling signs of potential police misconduct? ...
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