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...
"An out-of-court settlement has been reached in a case defenders say highlights how hyper-vigilant border enforcement can violate people’s civil liberties. Gerardo Vazquez-Mentado, an Oswego county resident, store owner and naturalized U.S. citizen sued the federal government after he was wrongfully arrested and detained by border patrol agents. Vazquez-Mentado was with his family, all U.S. citizens, on his way to work, when he was arrested in September 2009 by two border patrol agents in Oswego. He showed his New York driver’s license and he and his wife repeatedly insisted he was a U.S. citizen. The arresting agents, who asserted he was illegally in the U.S., searched and handcuffed him, and took him to the local border patrol station where he continued to insist he was a U.S. citizen, also presenting an Oswego County pistol permit. He was released only after his wife returned to the station with his U.S. passport and Certificate of Naturalization, which showed that he became a U.S. citizen in 1998. The agents did not have an arrest warrant for Vazquez-Mentado, nor did they offer him an apology upon his release." - Daily Record, Mar. 10, 2015.