Immigrants that are facing deportation are more and more likely to have their immigration cases thrown out of court due to mitigating circumstances such as having children that are US citizens, an analysis by Syracuse University researchers suggests. In a number of courts, the closure of around 20% of cases involved prosecutorial discretion. In Los […]
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The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement can often be a very difficult one, and one that frequently varies between different cities and states. Among the most vexing issues is the need to enforce immigration laws while allowing undocumented immigrants to not be afraid of talking to community police. A lot of immigrants fail
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Immigrants that are facing deportation are more and more likely to have their immigration cases thrown out of court due to mitigating circumstances such as having children that are US citizens, an analysis by Syracuse University researchers suggests. In a number of courts, the closure of around 20% of cases involved prosecutorial discretion. In Los
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Issues connected to citizenship and immigration have long been a source of often heated debate in the United States, and in the last couple of years it has re-emerged as a major political issue, with both Democrats and even some Republicans calling for the system to be reformed. One of the consequences of the deeply
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House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner is signaling that he may be willing to embrace a series of small changes to the immigration laws of the United States over the course of the next few months, providing advocates for reform with some degree of hope that the bitterly divided Congress might finally reach a compromise
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A federal judge this week questioned whether or not the United States government is trying to obscure or hide information by again failing to provide information to a civil rights group about the detention of thousands of immigrants for long periods of time. The written decision by US District Judge Richard Berman came just days
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With 2013 slowly winding to a close, many believe that the New Year is going to be a good one for millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States. This year has been a difficult year with the high of the passing of a comprehensive reform bill by the Senate back in June, followed
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Although it seems clear now that there will be no immigration reform in 2013, experts are split as to whether or not it could be achieved next year, with many thinking that 2014 being a congressional election year will scupper the chances of reform taking place. “I would be a crazy person to bet my
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With the holiday season now beginning in earnest, families from all over the world are starting to gather together in order to celebrate the festive period. However, many families are separated and because of this expressions of concern from the general public in regards to extended processing time for the Petition for Alien Relative, also
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Republican Party leaders in the House of Representatives have already stated that they will not be taking up the bill for comprehensive immigration reform that was passed by the Senate earlier this year, but that has not stopped Vice President Joseph Biden from guaranteeing on Wednesday that the Senate measure, including the controversial path to
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Advocates for immigration reform are getting angry. They have tried being polite, staging acts of civil disobedience and warning Republicans that if they keep dragging their feet when it comes to overhauling the nation’s broken immigration system that their party will end up paying dearly at the ballot box. None of them seem to have
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