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‘Jailhouse Screening’ Puts Undocumented Immigrants at Greater Risk: Paper

The Crime Report

immigration enforcement has largely shifted from the street to jails, resulting in overreach and an increase in incarceration, according to a North Carolina law professor. Jailhouse screening” was supposed to speed up immigration processes and identify undocumented immigrants who posed a threat to public safety.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.”

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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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“This Judge is a Hero”: Democratic Politicians and Judges Praise Judge Dugan and Call for Resistance

JonathanTurley

” While Dugan initially contested the allegations that she assisted an illegal immigrant to evade federal authorities in her Milwaukee courthouse, Democrats are heralding her as a type of Harriet Tubman guiding illegal immigrants to safety. Flores-Ruiz was previously deported and then entered again illegally, a federal felony.

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The Red Line: Democratic Officials Claim a Dangerous License for Illegality

JonathanTurley

Tim Walz called the “ modern-day Gestapo ” of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), who was charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers during a protest at Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. The latest claimant of this license is Rep.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

SCOTUSBlog

Her mother hails from Jamaica, while her late father was the son of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. The other cases Kruger argued touched on a wide range of issues, from the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause and right to counsel to federal “career criminallaws and federal benefits laws. Following the U.S.

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Criminalizing Migration: How We Got Here

The Crime Report

needs to radically change existing immigration laws and policies to shift away from the mindset of “migrant sorting” by criminal status, according to a paper published in the Daedalus journal. Immigration and Criminal Justice Intertwined. It allowed INS to detain migrants convicted of one of these offenses.