The move announced Tuesday is spelled out in the settlement of a civil lawsuit filed in 2011 on behalf of two men who said they were held illegally in the Orleans Parish Prison for months – well beyond a 48-hour limit an advocacy group says is spelled out in the rules of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the settlement in U.S. District…
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida offered Republicans a new reason to vote for immigration reform on Tuesday. Either legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants in exchange for more border security or President Obama will just legalize them on his own. “I believe that this president tempted will be tempted, if nothing happens in Congress, to issue an e…
Federal agents tasked with enforcing immigration laws will largely be kept out of New Orleans jail, online and the sheriff will no longer fulfill detention requests unless they are for people who have committed serious crimes like murder and armed robbery….
Federal agents tasked with enforcing immigration laws will largely be kept out of New Orleans jail, and the sheriff will no longer fulfill detention requests unless they are for people who have committed serious crimes like murder and armed robbery….
I believe that this president will be tempted, if nothing happens in Congress, he will be tempted to issue an executive order as he did for the DREAM Act kids a year ago, where he basically legalizes 11 million people by the sign of a pen," Rubio said in an interview Tuesday on WFLA Radio’s "The Morning Show with Preston Scott."…
While President Should Make DACA Expansion “Plan A” for Immigration Reform August 13, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA In response to Marco Rubio’s comments on the possible expansion of DACA, Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, issued the following statement: “Senator Rubio’s bizarre comments demonstrate precisely why the President…
The California legislature went back in session today after its summer break, ask and among the bills it will consider are a proposal that would prevent law-enforcement officials from handing over detainees arrested for non-violent crimes to federal immigration officials for possible deportation, and another to allow many undocumented immigrants…
New Orleans Day Laborers Move Immigration Reform Forward Through Historic Agreement with SheriffPrecedent-Setting Agreement Protects Against Racial Profiling, Unconstitutional Detention by Rejecting Burdensome ICE Hold Requests New Orleans, LA – August 13, 2013 In response to the far-reaching agreement between Sheriff Gusman and New Orleans day laborers that directs Orleans Parish Jail to reject…