There is a significant and immediate step Gov. Jerry Brown of California can take to protect community safety and civil liberties in his state.
He can sign the Trust Act, a recently passed state bill that prevents local police departments from turning their jails into immigration holding cells for noncriminals or minor offenders whose sentences are
LOS ANGELES — Some California sheriffs are pushing back against a proposed state law that would bar law enforcement officers from detaining illegal immigrants for deportation if they have not been charged with serious or violent crimes.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/us/california-sheriffs-oppose-bill-on-illegal-immigrants.html?_r=1&src=rechp
HARLINGEN, Tex. — The judge called his next case, scanning the courtroom.
The immigrant who was facing deportation rose to his feet, in a clean T-shirt and khaki pants several sizes too large, with his name — JUAN — printed on a tag around his neck.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/us/more-young-illegal-immigrants-face-deportation.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=us
Just days before Republicans gather for their national convention in Tampa, Fla., party leaders have adopted a platform that would cut off federal financing to colleges and universities that permit illegal immigrants to pay tuition at the same lower rates as state residents, according to The New York Times.
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For years, New Jersey barred U.S.-born college students from receiving state financial aid if their parents were in this country illegally. Last week, a state court of appeals put an end to that misguided policy, finding that education officials had wrongly denied aid to an 18-year-old student born and raised in the United States because
Facing his best chance at legal status in the United States, Alan Valdivia struggled to answer some basic questions about himself. When did his family bring him here from Mexico? At what age? By what route?
Read more in the Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-deportation-reprieve-20120816,0,7077993.story
Starting Wednesday, under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, illegal immigrants who came as children can seek to stay legally under the Obama initiative.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigrant-kids-20120815,0,2097285.story
A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday refused to grant an injunction on a new voter identification law that Democrats say could harm President Obama’s re-election chances by unfairly targeting minorities, college students and others in a key swing state.
Read more in The New York Times: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/pennsylvania-judge-upholds-voter-id-law/?hp
LOS ANGELES — With their expectations soaring, young illegal immigrants across the country are preparing to apply for a temporary reprieve from deportation that the Obama administration is offering. For the first time, as many as 1.7 million of them could be allowed to work legally and live openly in this country without fear of
PHOENIX — In nearly 20 years as sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio has honed his publicity skills, using headline-grabbing, often outrageous maneuvers to build a reputation as the nation’s toughest law officer and make himself a hero to many Americans.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/us/an-arizona-sheriffs-fondness-for-publicity-may-bite-back.html?_r=1&hpw