PROTECT: Defending Immigrant Civil Rights
Oct 13, 2011
In response to a recent and dangerous decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals, we at the Rios Law Firm, in an effort to safeguard the civil rights of immigrants, have initiated an immigrant civil ...
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Obama Administration Seeks To Block Portions Of Alabama Immigration Law
Oct 13, 2011
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed an emergency motion with the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asking that the court to block Alabamas controversial new immigration law from going t...
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Latinos New Majority In Federal Prisons Due To Immigration Offenses
Sep 25, 2011
A new government report has determined that, for the first time, Latinos now make up more than half of all felony offenders in federal prisons this year due to immigration-related offenses. The report(...
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Farm States Promoting Competing Guest-Worker Bills
Sep 25, 2011
American Specialty Agriculture Act versus the AgJobs program. At present, those are the two competing initiatives being proposed by farm state lawmakers who want to reform the current U.S. visa system ...
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Family Says ICE Agents Threatened And Abused Them In Raid
Aug 21, 2011
A family in Southern California is accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents of inflicting physical harm and expressing violent threats during a failed drug raid. One of the
family mem...
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Congressman Proposes “HALT Act” To Block President ‘s Immigration Enforcement Authority
Aug 21, 2011
Lamar Smith, a Republican Congressman from Texas, recently proposed a
bill called Hinder the Administrations Legalization Temptation Act
or HALT Act in an effort to increase the deportation of undo...
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Death Of Immigrant In “Twilight” Town Sparks Debate Over Border Patrol
Jul 12, 2011
Benjamin Roldan Salinas, a 43-year old forest worker from Mexico who was in the United States illegally, was found dead on June 4 in the waters of the Sol Duc River in Forks, Washington, the
town now...
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Federal Judge Blocks Key Components Of Controversial Georgia Immigration Law
Jul 12, 2011
U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. recently suspended two key provisions of a controversial Georgia immigration law designed to curtail illegal immigration in that state. The two
provisions that w...
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Supreme Court Rejects Tuition Case For Undocumented Immigrants
Jun 19, 2011
Highlighting the continuing tension over immigration policies, the U.S. Supreme Court recently rejected a challenge to a California law that gives undocumented immigrants the same in-state tuition rate...
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