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 Arizona woman spent five days in a Border Patrol jail after a traffic stop, when a sheriff's deputy told her he "was not interested" in her visa status, the ACLU claims in court. Maria del Rosario Cortes Camacho sued Pinal County sheriff's Officers Chad Lakosky and Kristina Stoltz on Thursday in Federal Court. Cortes was arrested just after Arizona's controversial "show me your papers" law, S.B. 1070, took effect. The ACLU claims the arrested was unconstitutional. Officer Lakosky pulled her over in Eloy, Ariz., in September 2012, for a cracked windshield. Lakosky asked for her papers and Cortes told him that "she had a pending U-visa application, a copy of which was in her glove compartment. Deputy Lakosky responded that he was not interested in those papers," according to the complaint. Officer Stoltz arrived, handcuffed her, and took her to a Border Patrol office, where she spent five days, separated from her children. "Lakosky and Stoltz unlawfully detained Ms. Cortes without any additional justification after the original purpose of the stop was completed, and beyond a reasonable time required to issue her citation, solely on the basis of her suspected or actual immigration status, and unlawfully arrested her by involuntarily transporting her under restraint from the location of the stop," the complaint states." - CNS, Sept. 26, 2014.