Republican Gov. Greg Abbott‘s plan to crack down on undocumented immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border has led to the arrests of hundreds of migrants who are now languishing in Texas prisons, often without being charged with a crime or assigned legal representation in violation of both their constitutional rights and …
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Last month, lawyers conducting welfare visits to Texas Customs and Border Protection facilities revealed that detained migrants are being held in conditions more appalling and inhumane than most could have imagined. They found filthy, cramped women and children who had been deprived of basic hygiene and forced to sleep on …
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A fake university was helping immigrants stay in the U.S. on student visas — until it was revealed to be an elaborate sting operation run by undercover ICE agents. The website for the University of Farmington has been taken down and replaced with an official notice stating “The University of …
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For a few hours almost every month, the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center is transformed into a courtroom. A giant American flag hangs above the stage at the center of the hall. “All rise,” says a clerk, and between 3,000 and 5,000 applicants for citizenship rise from …
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Update: Late Friday, the federal appeals court in D.C. denied Jane Doe’s plea to require the federal government to release her to get an abortion. In a 2-1 decision, the court gave the government until October 31st to find someone to be legally responsible for Jane Doe – a “sponsor” …
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J erry Brown‘s California now stands like a parallel universe to Donald Trump‘s America: a land of tolerance, high immigration, tight gun control and world-beating innovation – combining a soaring economy with plummeting greenhouse-gas emissions. In recent months, Brown has signed a new gas tax to fund more than $50 …
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