My friend Morgan Smith wrote this note about the Rio Grande in July 2024. Learn more about Morgan here , here and here .
J.A.M. v. USA "The Court holds that Oscar is entitled to a much lower, but still notable award of $175,000 because he was somewhat older at the time of the incident, was detained for about half...
Path2Papers, July 17, 2024 " What are the policy changes the Biden administration is implementing regarding temporary work visas? On June 18, 2024, the Biden administration announced a policy...
DOJ, July 18, 2024 "The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs Inc. (Southwest Key), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied children who are...
Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters, July 18, 2024 "Even with all the industries where Californians went on strike during last year’s “hot labor summer,” some of the most active sites of...
"Nashville immigration attorney Elliott Ozment’s crusade against state officials who attempt to enforce federal immigration law continued this week with the filing of a federal lawsuit against Maury County government and General Sessions Judge Bobby Sands. According to the lawsuit, Victor Manuel Ramirez-Mendoza appeared in Sands’ court Jan. 26, 2011, after he was arrested for driving on a suspended license a week earlier. The judge ordered Ramirez-Mendoza turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the lawsuit, and the Maury County Sheriff’s Department complied. “It’ll be better to send him to Mexico because he’s costing us a lot of money here,” the lawsuit quotes Sands as saying during an exchange with Ramirez-Mendoza’s public defender. Ozment said that limited-jurisdiction General Sessions courts have no authority to enforce federal immigration law and that the Maury County Sheriff’s Department also cannot investigate, apprehend or detain suspected illegal immigrants absent a formal partnership with ICE." - The Tennessean, Jan. 28, 2012.