tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119289252010-04-24T08:30:11.871-04:00pnrx covers immigration issues, political topics, and many other contemporary concerns. Welcome to the immigration blog.Rexnoreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11928925.post-54352684647251347492010-04-24T08:30:00.001-04:002010-04-24T08:30:11.884-04:00

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As reported by Esther Zuckerman and Colin Ross of the Yale Daily News in their story Immigrants sue feds over 2007 raids (October 28, 2009), ten residents of New Haven, Connecticut are filing a lawsuit on October 28, 2009 against ICE agents (Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents) along with their supervisors for conducting what the lawsuit claims are illegal ICE raids in New Haven, CT in

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In September 2009, the New Jersey Law Journal's editorial board urged the Attorney General to consider creating a system for offering a competent corps of lawyers to help improverished people defend themselves in immigration court from potential deportation. Immigration law is extremely complex and the consequences of removal are often drastic.The New Jersey Law Journal correctly focuses on an

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When a circuit court orders the government not to deport someone until the appeal is resolved, the government is not allowed to deport the person while the appeal is still being decided.Just because deporting someone at that stage would be illegal does not mean the government follows the rules every time. Take a look at the case of Aguilar-Turcios v. Holder, which the Ninth Circuit decided on

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In Nken v. Holder, the Justice Department told the United States Supreme Court at page 44 of its brief that "By policy and practice, the government accords aliens who were removed pending judicial review but then prevailed before the courts effective relief by, inter alia, facilitating the aliens' return to the United States by parole under 8 USC 1182(d)(5) if necessary, and according them the

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On July 21, 2009, Nina Bernstein of the New York Times wrote about "Report Finds Immigration Agents Broke Laws and Agency Rules in Home Raids."She focused on a study scheduled for release on July 22, 2009 by the Immigration Justice Law Clinic at Cardozo Law School. The clinic is led by Peter Markowitz, who is also one of the report's co-authors.Key findings include that despite requiring consent

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On June 29, 2009, a group of non-profit organizations filed a petition for rulemaking that asks the Justice Department to promulgate regulations to give immigration judges the power to provide appointed counsel for immigrants in removal proceedings in cases where it would be needed.http://www.immigrantjustice.org/component/option,com_docman/Itemid,0/task,doc_download/gid,490/The groups filing the

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In a decision dated June 18, 2009, Immigration Judge Frank M. Travieso of the Los Angeles Immigration Court terminated removal proceedings in immigration court based on ICE's failure to file any evidence (such as an I-213 form) in a timely manner along with how the late-filed I-213 was unreliable.In doing so, IJ Travieso terminated the case without having to rule on a motion to suppress and

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In a series of rulings on June 1, 2009 and June 2, 2009, Immigration Judge Michael J. Straus in Hartford, Connecticut Immigration Court granted suppression motions filed by Michael Wishnie and others at Yale Law School. The Yale Law School team included, among others, supervising attorneys Hope Metcalf and Chris Lasch along with law students Bram Elias, Stella Burch Elias, Sara Edelstein,

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In Castilho de Oliviera v. Holder, No. 07-3307 (7th Cir. May 8, 2009), the Seventh Circuit seriously criticized IJ O. John Brahos. In the case, the Seventh Circuit concluded that the immigrant did not receive a fair hearing before a neutral immigration judge because IJ Brahos repeatedly interrupted to ask irrelevant and sometimes inflammatory questions, refused to consider important evidence,

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In Nken v. Holder, the Supreme Court made an official acknowledgement of an announcement by the Justice Department that many immigration lawyers would consider a great improvement, if the Justice Department lives up to what it promised to the Supreme Court -- it will provide effective relief to people they deported who then win their appeal after being deported.In Nken v. Holder, the main issue

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Andrew Becker and Patrick J. McDonnell of The Los Angeles Times focused on U.S. Citizens Caught Up In Immigration Sweeps on April 9, 2009, noting that ICE keeps no statistics on the number of time it improperly detains and holds United States citizens.As they note, one problem is that courts today do not see immigration detainees as having a right to government-appointed counsel, so it can be

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Bassina Farbenblum and Jessica Jansyn authored a report "Crossing The Line: Damaging Immigration Enforcement Practices by NJ Police Following AG Law Enforcement Directive 2007-3," released in April 2009 by The Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, NJ. (Professor Baher Azmy and Juanita Lasprilla contributed to the report.)The report raises serious questions

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The Associated Press reported on April 4, 2009 that a federal judge rejected a motion by ICE to throw out a lawsuit that challenged ICE arrests in Danbury, Connecticut. Nine of the plaintiffs were arrested in September 2006 as part of what is known as the Danbury 11. The lawsuit claims ICE violated civil rights and engaged in the unauthorized enforcement of civil immigration violations. ICE

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Even more stories about immigrants afraid to help police stop crime. One solution to this public safety problem is to ensure that immigrants who are victims or witnesses to crimes may not be turned over by local police to immigration authorities. In New Jersey, one man called 911, told the police, and helped the police catch the criminals but the local police violated his rights by turning him

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A story by Rick Casey titled "Cold as ICE: Falsehoods" in the Houston Chronicle on April 22, 2008, discussed how ICE counsel James Manning purportedly wrote falsehoods in appealing the case of Mauricio Barragan.ICE counsel Manning apparently portrayed Mr. Barragan as seeking a waiver of deportation because he would not assist his parents on an occasional basis but the record instead showed that

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A series of news articles in the past few months have detailed accusations that ICE agents in Baltimore used racial profiling and then lied about what they had done.In late January 2009, CASA de Maryland, an immigrant advocacy group based in Silver Spring and with a Baltimore office, release striking footage in which ICE agents targeted people in January 2007 outside a Seven-Eleven store in

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A story on March 28, 2009 by Gregg Krupa of The Detroit News titled Conyers Rips Deportations describes how over 1,200 people including three members of Congress called for immigration reform at a rally on March 27 as part of a 20-city tour that highlights the failure of immigration reform and the harm caused by increased enforcement.Congressman John conyers said that there are "ICE people who

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According to an Associated Press story, federal district court judge Julian Abele Cook, Jr. sentenced Roy Bailey to three years and one month in prison for taking bribes while the senior official in Detroit for detaining and transporting immigrants for ICE (and for INS before it split up into new agencies including ICE). He was the senior official in Detroit from 1999 to 2004.The newspaper

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Rita Cote is an immigrant in Tavares, Florida who spent two weeks in detention and is now threatened with deportation after helping the police investigate a crime.Tavares Police came to a house to investigate a criminal issue -- an altercation between Rita Cote's sister and the sister's boyfriend. She was trying to help the police by giving language interpretation between the police and her

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I believe that the immigration court in Newark, NJ is closed on Monday, March 2, 2009 due to weather. It is a weather closure because of snowy conditions today.

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The ACLU of Southern California announced today that Los Angeles Immigration Judge A. Ashley Tabaddor issued a 19-page ruling that terminated a case in immigration court due to illegal conduct by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).The judge concluded that in February 2008, ICE agents blocked exits at Micro Solutions Enterprises and illegally detained and questioned a number of workers. ICE

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According to an Associated Press story on November 10, 2008, a federal grand jury has indicated a former ICE Assistant Chief Counsel along with his wife for allegedly running a scheme to adjust the immigration status of immigrants who were not eligible.The news story claims that there have been 75 counts against former ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Kallas and his wife Maria Kallas of

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Helen O'Neill of the Associated Press wrote an article titled Sojourners Are There For Detainees, which describes how members of the Sojourners at Riverside Church in New York City visit some of the detainees in the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey.For 10 years, the group's members have been making visits to be a friendly face for an hour and to make a commitment to be a real

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In December 2008, USCIS closed its application support center (where it took biometrics such as fingerprints and photographs) in Newark, New Jersey and opened up a new center in Elizabeth, New Jersey.The correct address for the biometrics center in Elizabeth, New Jersey is:285 North Broad StreetElizabeth, New JerseyIt is not in Elizabeth City, NJ.USCIS has made a mistake in many of the letters it

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