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Biden defers deportation of Hong Kong residents in US for additional 2 years

JURIST

The decision to extend the program covers all Hong Kong residents who have been present in the US since August 5, 2021. According to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the US president is able to extend the DED at his discretion. USCIS noted that the DED is not a specific immigration status.

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A Texas Border County Wages War Against Migrants

The Crime Report

Ranchers have been empowered to call hundred-person selection jury trials for simple misdemeanor trespassing charges against migrants crossing into their property.

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Texas Illegally Detains Migrants at the Border

The Crime Report

A group of defense attorneys told the state’s highest criminal court that some men are still locked up for months before the courts give them an attorney or prosecutors file misdemeanor charges against them, in violation of state laws.

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Supreme Court to decide when relief from plea is justified by failure to understand adverse immigration consequences

At the Lectern

a)(1), which allows relief if there’s been “prejudicial error damaging the moving party’s ability to meaningfully understand, defend against, or knowingly accept the actual or potential adverse immigration consequences of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere.” Vivar (2021) 11 Cal.5th Joseph Health System (2021) 11 Cal.5th

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Reopened Border Stays Closed to Asylum Seekers as Texas Jails Overflow With Migrants

The Crime Report

Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star using state law enforcement to enforce immigration law by arresting migrants for trespassing is overwhelming local courts and resulting in few convictions. Just 3 percent of the about 1,500 people arrested on misdemeanor trespassing charges since July, 2021 have been convicted, all via guilty pleas.

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What Europe Can Teach Us About Ending Mass Incarceration

The Crime Report

On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. Norway is predominantly ethnically Norwegian, but the immigrant population also tripled from 1998 to 2013. It doesn’t look like it.

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February argument calendar includes immigration, voting-rights cases

SCOTUSBlog

Like the argument calendar for January 2021 , the session is relatively light: It is slated to feature eight hours of argument over six days, but with the very real prospect that two cases will be removed from the calendar if President-elect Joe Biden changes the controversial policies at the heart of the disputes after taking office next month.