In a move pressed by the New Orleans City Council and prodded by a lawsuit from two men who were held behind bars on immigration holds months after their legal release dates, Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman will no longer accept such requests by federal officials unless inmates are also charged with major violent offenses. Immigrant advocates…
DetailsI believe that this president tempted, will be tempted, if nothing happens in Congress, 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 told WFLA’s “The Morning Show with Preston Scott." "Now we won’t get any E-Verify, we won’t get a…
DetailsFlorida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio warned Tuesday that if Congress doesn’t pass immigration overhaul legislation, President Barack Obama may act on his own to legalize the 11 million immigrants already in the U.S. illegally. Rubio, a potential presidential candidate and an author of the sweeping immigration bill that passed the Senate in June but…
DetailsSeveral hundred immigrant farm workers travelled by car to our Nation’s Capital from far away places such as Arizona, Florida and Chicago for a three-day #Not1more Deportation Covening to address the issue of deportation of immigrants. When a family member is deported, the families are seperated for long periods of time with the ensuing struggle…
DetailsThe 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…
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