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Time for Denver to haul ICE into court

Under President Trump, ICE has displayed an unprecedented aggressiveness towards migrants. ICE agents have tackled a man in the doorway of Denver’s Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse. They have arrested someone at a home next to a public school during the morning drop-off window. Last week they opened fire on a man in a Denver street. Denver officials have complained. So far, they have been rebuffed. In a letter published last week by the Denver Post, ICE told Mayor Michael Hancock that it will continue its single-minded focus on arresting people it thinks might be in the United States without the [...]

Posted by César on June 27, 2017 on 4:00 am 1 Comment
Filed Under: commentaries, sanctuary

Gianforte heads to Congress while immigrants are deported for much less

Greg Gianforte body-slammed a reporter. After pleading guilty to assault this week and receiving a sentence of community service and anger management classes, he will soon become the newest member of Congress. For doing much less, tens of thousands of immigrants are deported every year. Gianforte’s assault of a reporter illustrates a double-standard that runs through immigration law: immigrants are held to a higher standard than citizens. Yet politicians, Republicans and Democrats alike, regularly tout schemes to separate the good from the bad immigrants. Gianforte’s experience illustrates [...]

Posted by César on June 14, 2017 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: commentaries, Congress

Texas Republican Admits He’s Pushing Private Prison Corporation’s Bill

A Republican state representative admits that he is promoting a bill written by the private prison corporation GEO Group. The bill would make it easier for private prison corporations to help the federal government lock up migrant families. “I've known the lady who’s their lobbyist for a long time,” Representative John Raney reportedly told the Associated Press last week. “That’s where the legislation came from.” The second-largest private prison operator in the United States, GEO runs an immigration prison in Karnes City, Texas, about sixty miles south of San Antonio, where it holds entire [...]

Posted by César on April 27, 2017 on 10:33 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: CCA/CoreCivic, commentaries, GEO Group, imprisonment, proposed legislation

Public Safety and the Fourth Amendment Work Together

By Christopher N. Lasch and César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández On Monday, the Colorado Senate is expected to consider a bill to prohibit cities and counties from limiting their role in enforcing federal immigration law. Senate Bill 17-281, the Colorado Citizen Protection Against Sanctuary Policies Act, relies on two fallacies perpetuated by the Trump administration in its campaign against so-called “sanctuary” cities. First, President Trump claims sanctuary jurisdictions endanger the public. S.B. 281 likewise claims that sanctuary policies are “contrary to the safety” of Coloradans.  This [...]

Posted by César on April 24, 2017 on 6:34 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: 4th Amendment, commentaries, detainer, guest blogger, local immigration policing, proposed legislation, sanctuary

Improving justice one case at a time

There are currently 540,000 people in deportation proceedings somewhere in the United States. Most will make their final stance against forced separation from their families and homes without an attorney. This is a shameful mark on our nation’s commitment to justice that should stop. Earlier this month, New York officials took a significant step in that direction by funding a state-wide network of attorneys to represent people undergoing immigration court proceedings while detained. More cities and states should follow New York’s lead. Despite what politicians frequently suggest, deciding [...]

Posted by César on April 18, 2017 on 4:00 am 3 Comments
Filed Under: commentaries, Immigration Court, proposed legislation, right to counsel, sanctuary

Attorney General delivers fiery speech in defense of the status quo

Visiting the southwest border for the first time since becoming Attorney General, today Jeff Sessions delivered a campaign-style speech promising to bring the federal criminal justice system to bear against immigration law violators. Standing before Customs and Border Protection officials in Nogales, the Attorney General described beheadings, machete attacks, and gang violence. “Criminal aliens, and the coyotes and the document-forgers seek to overthrow our system of lawful immigration,” he claimed. In response, the Justice Department that he leads will “take our stand against this filth” [...]

Posted by César on April 11, 2017 on 3:13 pm 4 Comments
Filed Under: border militarization, commentaries, illegal entry, illegal reentry, Prosecutorial discretion, Trump executive orders

Colorado Republicans target sanctuary cities—again—in pursuit of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda

By César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández and Christopher N. Lasch After suffering a party-line defeat in a state House committee last month, Republican state legislators in Colorado are once more attempting to coerce cities, counties, school districts, and law enforcement agencies to entangle themselves in immigration enforcement. The “Colorado Citizen Protection Against Sanctuary Policies Act” (Senate Bill 281), like the Republicans’ earlier failed bill, is a wrong-headed effort to solve a largely nonexistent problem. Perpetuating the myth of immigrant criminality Following the Trump [...]

Posted by César on April 10, 2017 on 4:00 am 2 Comments
Filed Under: commentaries, local immigration policing, proposed legislation, sanctuary, Trump executive orders

Scaring migrants from legal processes

President Trump has made it known that he is no fan of the judiciary. Only one month into the Trump Administration, it appears that ICE is taking its cues from the president. Judging from recent actions, the nation’s lead immigration law enforcement agency seems intent on scaring migrants away from legal processes. In the course of one week, four incidents, seemingly unrelated, might make a reasonable observer think twice about engaging with immigration law authorities. On February 8, ICE arrested several men across the street from a Virginia church where they had taken shelter from the [...]

Posted by César on March 2, 2017 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: commentaries, deferred action, imprisonment, Prosecutorial discretion

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