NC: BURLINGTON (NC) TIMES: Legal resident jailed for lying to immigration officer – For more than three months, Maximiliano Mateo-Mendez has been held in Triangle jails, accused of lying to an immigration officer who approached him on the street in front of the federal courthouse in Raleigh to ask why he was there. - WASHINGTON POST: Self-Deportation Has Few Takers - With a fanfare of news conferences and Spanish-language television and newspaper ads, U.S. authorities last week started giving 457,000 illegal immigrants a chance to turn themselves in without the usual threat of arrest and detention. Three accepted.
- VA: WASHINGTON POST: Manassas Moves Toward Police Training Center – The Manassas police department received the go-ahead Monday from the City Council to begin planning for a training facility. The council approved a roughly $167,000 contract with Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering, authorizing the firm to develop a preliminary design for a 10,000-square-foot police training facility. It would be the first of its kind in Manassas, supplying officers with in-house firing ranges.
- KS: Immigration Issue May Stay Stalled - It’s a topic for feds, many legislative candidates say Kansas legislators talked tough about immigration reforms before the last session started. But in the end, they couldn’t agree on any. Changes in state law may be unlikely in the next session, too, if the views of south-central Kansas legislative candidates are any indication. Roughly half of candidates who responded to an Eagle questionnaire said immigration is a federal issue.
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Standing FIRM- Family Unity Waiver Must be Implemented Fairly to Keep Families Together May 31, 2012The Fair Immigration Reform Movement today urged for the rapid implementation of a proposed rule change that would allow spouses and children of U.S. citizens to stay together in the United States while they wait for decisions on their waivers … Continue reading →Zack L.
- FIRM Says Proposal to Keep Families United While Processing Immigration Paperwork Must be Implemented May 31, 2012On Thursday, May 31, the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) will call on the Obama Administration to strengthen and implement a proposed change in federal regulations that matters dearly to the families of immigrants. The rule change would allow spouses … Continue reading →Zack L.
- States Introduce Fewer Immigration Bills May 30, 2012The number of immigration bills and resolutions appearing in state legislatures across the country declined steeply in the first quarter of this year, according to a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures. More than 1,500 bills were introduced the first … Continue reading →Zack L.
- Garfield County Sheriff Persists in Referring Domestic Violence Victims to ICE May 22, 2012An investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado revealed that the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department (GCSD) has referred several victims of domestic violence to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, resulting in those individuals being placed in deportation proceedings … Continue reading →Zack L.
- Civil Rights of Immigrants May 21, 2012On Sunday, May 20th, 2012 over 100 MOSES leaders actioned to hold Wayne County Sheriff Benny N. Napoleon accountable for the actions of his officers and deputies and demand that they stop impounding cars and arresting undocumented immigrants who merely … Continue reading →Zack L.
- Family Unity Waiver Must be Implemented Fairly to Keep Families Together May 31, 2012
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