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'Not going to cooperate': Border state sheriffs throw wrench in Trump’s deportation plan
5 days, 22 hours ago

'Not going to cooperate': Border state sheriffs throw wrench in Trump’s deportation plan

Raw Story  

President-elect Donald Trump's advisers have been hoping county sheriffs in border states will assist with the incoming administration's mass deportation campaign. And Yuma County, Arizona Sheriff Leon Wilmot told WIRED that the Supreme Court has already established that enforcing immigration law is outside the jurisdiction of local police departments and sheriffs' offices. I've got cases that are open.” Other border …

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Texas pivots from feuding with Biden over the border to providing the blueprint for Trump
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Texas pivots from feuding with Biden over the border to providing the blueprint for Trump

CNN  

CNN — Texas is quickly becoming the blueprint for how incoming Trump officials expect to work with states on border security – a stark pivot from recent years when it was the epicenter of a bitter feud between state and federal officials. “We’ve had to do it at a much greater level over last few years.” In a sign of …

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How Trump might target DACA recipients and other immigrant groups
1 month, 2 weeks ago

How Trump might target DACA recipients and other immigrant groups

Raw Story  

Donald Trump has promised voters that he would carry out a range of immigration actions, including deporting, with the help of the National Guard or military, millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. Amy Lieberman, a politics editor at The Conversation U.S., asked University of Southern California immigration law scholar Jean Lantz Reisz to explain how Trump could follow …

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We need to lock up the thugs rioting in the streets – and then confront the real problem
4 months, 2 weeks ago

We need to lock up the thugs rioting in the streets – and then confront the real problem

The Independent  

Days of unrest across England’s towns and cities – which have seen mosques targeted, hotels housing asylum seekers attacked, police officers injured and countless acts of vandalism by far-right rioters – are forcing us to confront an ugly and hateful element in our country. And disillusionment with politics is far wider than just on the issue of immigration; in focus …

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The Supreme Court Is Separating American Families With Phony Originalism
5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Supreme Court Is Separating American Families With Phony Originalism

Slate  

The Supreme Court issued an important and disturbing decision substantially curtailing the rights of immigrant families on Friday in Department of State v. Muñoz. The Supreme Court considered several constitutional immigrants’ rights cases when Justice Anthony Kennedy was at the court’s center, and it was generally not willing to reaffirm the most draconian immigration law precedents from the Chinese Exclusion …

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Here’s where courts are slowing Republican efforts for a state role in enforcing immigration law
6 months ago

Here’s where courts are slowing Republican efforts for a state role in enforcing immigration law

Associated Press  

DES MOINES, Iowa — The federal government has long had sole authority over immigration policy in the United States, but several Republican-led states have continued to push for a role in enforcing regulations out of frustration with current policy and as a way to criticize Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden. Republican officials in several states say they owe it to …

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Elon Musk, America’s richest immigrant, is angry about immigration. Can he influence the election?
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Elon Musk, America’s richest immigrant, is angry about immigration. Can he influence the election?

LA Times  

Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal were speaking to a crowd of business leaders in 2013 about creating their first company when the conversation seemed to go off script. Not one human being has ever said, ‘Hey, did you see Elon’s thing about immigration?’” How Musk talks about immigration on X Last year Musk visited the Eagle Pass, Texas, border, …

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Texas’ Controversial Immigration Law Would Be a Train Wreck—and Not Just for Immigrants
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas’ Controversial Immigration Law Would Be a Train Wreck—and Not Just for Immigrants

Slate  

After a couple of years of pushing the envelope on state-level immigration enforcement, with the disastrous Operation Lone Star and its offshoots, Texas last year decided to go all in on Senate Bill 4, the law that would make it a state crime to enter the country illegally or to reenter the country after a removal. The illegal-reentry part of …

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DOJ adds Oklahoma to the list of states it’s suing to block their immigration laws
7 months ago

DOJ adds Oklahoma to the list of states it’s suing to block their immigration laws

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Department of Justice sued Oklahoma on Tuesday seeking to block a law that seeks to impose criminal penalties on those living in the state illegally. The lawsuit in federal court in Oklahoma City challenges a law that makes it a state crime — punishable by up to two years in prison — to live in …

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Justice Department warns it plans to sue Iowa over new state immigration law
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Justice Department warns it plans to sue Iowa over new state immigration law

Associated Press  

DES MOINES, Iowa — The U.S. Department of Justice has told Iowa’s top officials it plans to sue the state over a new law making it a crime for a person to be in Iowa if they’ve previously been denied admission to the U.S. The statute interferes with the federal government’s authority to enforce immigration law, according to the DOJ, …

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Column: Our immigration problem isn’t what Trump says it is
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: Our immigration problem isn’t what Trump says it is

LA Times  

Former President Trump speaks during a visit to an unfinished section of border wall in Texas in 2021. I’ve seen the photos.” And it’s that feeling among even Democratic and undecided voters that is Biden’s real immigration problem. Crisis or political creation, it doesn’t matter, because, “something is necessary to give Americans confidence that borders aren’t open and porous as …

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signs immigration enforcement bill pushed following Laken Riley’s killing
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signs immigration enforcement bill pushed following Laken Riley’s killing

CNN  

CNN — Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday signed immigration enforcement legislation pushed in the wake of nursing student Laken Riley’s death. Kemp said at the signing that the legislation, which was sent to his desk in late March, “became one of our top priorities following the senseless death of Laken Riley,” who was found dead on the University …

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Texas’ migrant arrest law is on hold for now under latest court ruling
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas’ migrant arrest law is on hold for now under latest court ruling

LA Times  

Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Oct. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. A Texas law that allows the state to arrest and deport migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. will remain on hold for now, a federal appeals court ruled. …

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Texas wants to arrest immigrants in the country illegally. Why would that be such a major shift?
9 months ago

Texas wants to arrest immigrants in the country illegally. Why would that be such a major shift?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Immigration laws are federal laws -- not state laws -- and enforcement of immigration law is the domain of federal law enforcement. Lawmakers there passed a bill that would make illegally crossing the border a state crime, which would theoretically allow state law enforcement to arrest migrants. The passage of this law would mean that state police officers …

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Texas wants to arrest immigrants in the country illegally. Why would that be such a major shift?
9 months ago

Texas wants to arrest immigrants in the country illegally. Why would that be such a major shift?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Lawmakers there passed a bill that would make illegally …

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‘Dehumanizing’: Mexico’s president lashes out over Texas immigration law
9 months ago

‘Dehumanizing’: Mexico’s president lashes out over Texas immigration law

LA Times  

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday condemned a Texas law that would give state authorities broad powers to arrest foreigners suspected of illegally crossing from Mexico into Texas. After a day of back-and-forth court decisions that had left the law in effect for just hours, the Mexican president labeled the Texas statute “dehumanizing” and “anti-Christian.” He declared that …

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Advocates gird for Texas migrant law that could upheave US immigration
9 months ago

Advocates gird for Texas migrant law that could upheave US immigration

Al Jazeera  

SB4 allows Texas to detain and deport migrants. ‘A huge fear’ The Texas law would empower state and local authorities to detain people suspected of having crossed into the US from Mexico outside of legal ports of entry. Mexico’s government has condemned the law as “inhumane” and has said the country will not accept migrants and asylum seekers deported by …

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What’s next for the disputed Texas immigration law on hold after whiplash court rulings?
9 months ago

What’s next for the disputed Texas immigration law on hold after whiplash court rulings?

LA Times  

People navigate around concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande after crossing from Mexico into Texas near Eagle Pass in August 2023. She said the high court usually does not review such temporary orders, and “I would not get into that business.” Four other conservative justices did not explain their votes, while the court’s three liberals voted in …

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Appeals court again blocks controversial Texas immigration law
9 months ago

Appeals court again blocks controversial Texas immigration law

LA Times  

Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas. A federal appeals court late Tuesday issued an order that again prevents Texas from arresting migrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the strict new immigration …

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Divided Supreme Court clears way for Texas to arrest migrants suspected of illegal entry
9 months ago

Divided Supreme Court clears way for Texas to arrest migrants suspected of illegal entry

LA Times  

A man pleads with a member of the National Guard after burrowing through razor wire in an effort to cross the border along the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that allowing the Texas law to go into effect “will not only make communities in Texas less safe, it will also burden law …

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Texas Governor Invokes Pre-Civil War Legal Theory In Border Standoff
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Governor Invokes Pre-Civil War Legal Theory In Border Standoff

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s defiant statement on Wednesday rejecting the federal government’s authority to enforce immigration law at the U.S.-Mexico border ratcheted up the already tense stand-off between the state and the Biden administration — and signaled how fully the GOP has become the party of the Southern conservatives it was founded to fight. Brandon Bell via …

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Over 1,000 migrant families separated at border near San Diego since September, advocates say
1 year ago

Over 1,000 migrant families separated at border near San Diego since September, advocates say

LA Times  

Nearly 1,100 migrant families have been separated while being processed at the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego since September, immigrant advocacy groups said in a letter sent Thursday to the Department of Homeland Security that seeks an investigation into the matter. The separations stem from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s ongoing practice of releasing high volumes of migrants to street …

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Immigration scams are rampant. Here’s how to avoid getting taken
1 year, 3 months ago

Immigration scams are rampant. Here’s how to avoid getting taken

LA Times  

For several years, Oswaldo Rafael Cabrera touted his services as an immigration attorney in Unfortunately for his many clients, Cabrera was not a lawyer. “One of the stories that we just heard over and over again, ‘I gave some guy $10,000 who told me he could get me a work permit, and I never heard from him again,’” said Jackie …

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'Dreamers' deferred: Democrats are blowing the immigration debate and hurting kids by hiding
1 year, 3 months ago

'Dreamers' deferred: Democrats are blowing the immigration debate and hurting kids by hiding

Raw Story  

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was unlawful, dealing a stinging blow to the Biden Administration and Democrats who have supported the program since its creation in 2012 by President Barack Obama. And when a conservative judge rules twice to declare an immigration program unlawful, yet finds it acceptable enough to allow that …

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