A misdemeanor charge against an alleged undocumented immigrant in Etowah County, Ala., last week was billed as the first in the state under a controversial new law that allows police…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether immigrants who came to the United States as children can use the length of their parents’ stay here to avoid deportation.
A California lawyer was convicted yesterday of extortion and obstruction of justice for allegedly seeking $107,000 in exchange for a client’s favorable false testimony concerning the target of a grand…
The United States is going to review 300,000 files of those currently in deportation proceedings as alleged illegal immigrants, as well as all future cases, to determine whether the individuals…
A decade ago, Edmond Demiraj, an Albanian citizen who was in this country illegally, made a deal with the federal government: Testify against an Albanian mobster charged with human smuggling,…
The House of Delegates voted Tuesday in Toronto to urge federal lawmakers to reject attempts to change the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution regarding citizenship birthrights.
After his wife and son had to return to Poland four years ago, because she had fallen afoul of United States immigration law and been banned from this country for…
The ABA House of Delegates today approved four related resolutions that urge state legislatures, Congress and the Department of Homeland Security to revise policies that pertain to immigration proceedings, particularly…
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The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates is being asked to take a stand opposing efforts to limit the right to U.S. citizenship for anyone born in this country, regardless of…
After reading in the New York Times last month that a former reporter at the Washington Post had obtained a Washington state driver’s license despite his…
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Cesar Alvarez: The Hispanic community is in significant flux. Photo courtesy of Cesar L. Alvarez.
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