immigration

Josie and Clint talk with Alida Garcia, an attorney and advocate at FWD.us, about where immigration and criminal law increasingly overlap.

Immigrants are being deported while their cases are still pending, immigration attorneys say.

Local advocates are struggling with a new immigration memo that makes it more difficult to support these survivors.

Under ‘Operation Streamline,’ Border Patrol has become responsible for the housing and transporting of immigrants.

Several candidates are vying to become Milwaukee Sheriff in the wake of Sheriff David Clarke’s resignation last fall. But will they truly spurn his legacy of jail deaths and cooperation with ICE?

Their attorneys say the new video-teleconferencing policy is exacerbating backlogs and prolonging detention.

A community group met with the Bastrop County sheriff in an effort to build trust between the sheriff’s office and the immigrant community. Then, the sheriff ran a sting that led to more than one dozen arrestees being handed over to ICE.

New bail funds aren’t just getting immigrants out of detention—they’re helping them stay in the country permanently.

Defense attorneys say they’ll have only minutes to meet with their clients before the immigrants are convicted en masse.

Families are torn apart by the criminal justice system every day.

Advocates decry court’s shift to using teleconferencing for hearings.

‘We have a reaction as mothers to what’s been going on.’

As a consequence, authorities are keeping them in cells for 22 to 23 hours a day, according to Oregon’s federal public defender.

Public defenders say immigrants arrested under Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy are being denied their due process rights.

Yang Song fell four stories onto a sidewalk in Flushing, Queens on the night of November 25th. An officer with the New York City Police Department accompanied her, unconscious, to New York Presbyterian Hospital where doctors placed her on a respirator. They worked for hours: the 35 units of blood they transfused did not take, given the severity of her injuries from the thirty foot fall.

“The district court found this constitutionally permissible. It is not.”

Overwhelmingly, “undocumented” residents are referred to by the current administration In Washington as “illegal aliens” and identified almost exclusively as Latinos. There is little, if any, subtlety in this regard. The administration’s policy is undeniably race based.

Donald Trump’s presidency represents a serious threat to undocumented immigrants across the country and here in Los Angeles. Mayor Eric Garcetti has boldly rejected President Trump’s dangerous rhetoric, but if the mayor and locally elected leaders truly want to protect immigrant Angelenos, they must commit to ending “broken windows” policing and other practices, which put many people at great risk of deportation for doing little more than sleeping on a sidewalk.