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Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Perseverance Pays Off: The Saga of Jesús Contreras
Dennis Romboy, Deseret News, Jan. 17, 2023 "[F]or 40 years, rain or shine, Contreras has faithfully tended to his duties — except for the 40 months he spent back in Mexico after being wrongfully deported. Poor legal advice and fierce resistance...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Deported Army Veteran Returns to US for Citizenship Bid
Sophia Tareen, Associated Press, Sept. 24, 2019 "An Army veteran who was deported to Mexico in 2018 arrived back in Chicago Tuesday for a final chance at becoming a U.S. citizen and living in the city he has called home since boyhood. Federal...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 8 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The U.S. Keeps Deporting American Citizens
Meredith Hoffman, Mar. 8, 2016 - "The story is strikingly common: thousands of citizens have been unlawfully deported or detained by ICE in recent years, according to extensive research undertaken by Jacqueline Stevens, a political science professor...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Removing Insecurity: How American Children Will Benefit from DAPA
"More than five million American children — U.S. citizens or legal immigrants eligible for citizenship — will be the most important beneficiaries of the executive action on immigration issued by President Obama in November. The great majority, nearly...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
No Papers? It's the Kids Who Suffer (Op-Ed)
"At least one of every 15 children living in the United States has an unauthorized parent, and nearly all of those children are native-born United States citizens. Think of that statistic, one in 15, the next time you drive by a school or a playground...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Fed. Court Won't Dismiss Lawsuit Against CBP by Deported U.S. Citizen Girl
"In 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), unlawfully detained a 4-year-old [U.S. citizen] girl when she arrived at Dulles Airport in Virginia, deprived her of any contact with her...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Deportation of Parents Casts Lives of U.S.-Citizen Kids into Turmoil
"Twelve-year-old Jason Penate spent the holidays hanging close by his father. They picked out a Christmas tree and decorated the front window of their Gainesville, Va., home with candy canes, and Jason tried very hard not to think about whether his...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Deportation Relief Seen As More Important Than Citizenship: Survey
"While lopsided majorities of Hispanics and Asian Americans support creating a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants, two new surveys from the Pew Research Center also show that these groups believe it is more important for unauthorized...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Deported U.S. Citizen Finally Gets Passport Back
"After being deported from JFK Airport, stuck in exile and later detained by immigration officials, U.S. citizen Blanca Maria Alfaro is relieved to have a passport again. "This isn't fair, all of this that they have done to me. I wouldn't...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Massachusetts Native, Deported for Ten Years, Sues for $12 Million
"The U.S. Constitution requires neither that Robert nor anyone else do something impossible, i.e., recall first-hand the details of her birth, nor that one have legal expertise on the nuances of deportation and citizenship laws. And yet that is...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Smuggled Home
Should a native-born U.S. citizen have to sneak in to his own country? No. Never. But that's what Luis Martinez had to do. Watch the video . Read the story . Story: Los Angeles Times, Oct. 21, 2012 . Series: L.A. Times, Without a Cou...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Immigration Conundrum: Deport Moms of Minor U.S. Citizens?
"Parents should not be separated from their children," said Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who has proposed a law to protect parental rights during deportation proceedings. "Let's deport gang members and criminals instead of the parents...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
A Parent Deported; U.S. Citizen Kids, Spouse Struggle to Cope
This Aug. 14, 2012 photo shows [U.S. citizen] Rony Molina holding a photo of his wife in his home in Stamford, Conn. Molina's wife, Sandra Payes Chacon, was deported to Guatemala in 2010, leaving Molina alone to care for their three children, all...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
U.S. Citizen, Wrongfully Deported by ICE, Wins Partial Court Victory
"[T]he Court holds that a United States citizen with a diminished mental capacity who has been detained without probable cause, who the federal agents know claims to be a U.S. citizen, whose claim of citizenship is not investigated, whose claim is...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Family Values on ICE: The Deportation of Parents of U.S.-Born Citizens
"I am pleased to present the following report, "Deportation of Parents of U.S.-Born Citizens" for the second half of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, as prepared by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." - John Morton, Mar. 26, 2012...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Citizen Reflects on Her Wrongful Deportation...83 Years Ago
"Eighty-three years ago, Virginia Yañez and her siblings suddenly found themselves in a foreign land, impoverished and unable to speak the language. "It was just the worse... what we suffered. It still hurts," Yañez, now 89, said in...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Citizenship Changes Bittersweet for Deported Vets
"Former Army Spc. Hector Barajas sat at his computer in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. He logged into Facebook. He uploaded a photo of servicemembers celebrating their new U.S. citizenship in the White House Rose Garden, where they’d been sworn in...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
NYT soft-pedals arrests, deportations of Americans by ICE
I guess it depends on how you define 'recent.' - Prof. Jacqueline Stevens, Dec. 14, 2011 .
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
A jury found him to be a U.S. citizen; ICE deported him anyway
"In next year's Statistical Yearbook and press releases, Esteban Tiznado-Reynes' deportation Tuesday morning from the Florence Service Processing Center to Mexico will be used to show Immigration and Custom Enforcement's (ICE) efficacy...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
U.S. citizenship no defense against deportation threat
"A Minneapolis man was arrested and illegally detained for 43 days by federal immigration agents who sought to have him deported even though he is a U.S. citizen, according to a lawsuit filed recently in federal court in Minneapolis. Federal...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
In The Rush To Deport, Expelling U.S. Citizens
"The government is not shy about its success deporting people from the United States. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently sent out videos of early-morning raids conducted across the country. Uniformed ICE agents are shown planning...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
DHS, DOJ Press for Deportation of American Citizen Despite Res Judicata
"Frank Serna wrote me from Houston CCA in June, where he'd been locked up for 14 months . An immigration judge in 2004 held a hearing and found credible his mother's testimony and other evidence of his U.S. citizenship and terminated proceedings...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Deporting citizens
Professor/blogger Jacqueline Stevens continues to educate us all concerning the Anthony Clarke, Mark Lyttle and Esteban Tiznado cases. See here (Dec. 7, 2011) and here (Dec. 9, 2011.)