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Hawaii Immigration Lawyers Help You Get Your Green Card

LegalReader

Another way to obtain legal residence in Hawaii is to seek asylum.

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Asian Americans Left Out of Elected Office, Especially Criminal Justice Sector

The Crime Report

Over-policing affects Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, who are much more likely to be incarcerated than white people in Hawaii. Meanwhile, Southeast Asian Americans are at least three times more likely than other immigrants to be deported due to past criminal convictions, according to the report.

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Former Justice Grodin is one of many amici curiae in the Prop. 22 case

At the Lectern

Berryhill California Chamber of Commerce Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce, California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, NAACP California Hawaii State Conference, National Action Network Los Angeles, National Action Network Sacramento Chapter Inc., Henderson, Keith Chen, Jeffrey R.

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Will Maine Decriminalize Prostitution?

The Crime Report

Advocates also say decriminalization will reduce the stigma that surrounds people involved in sex trafficking, most of whom are poor women and girls, immigrants and LGBTQ people. . Hawaii enacted a law last week that removes the statute of limitations for sex trafficking and distinguishes sex buyers from people selling sex.

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Illegal firearm possession and courtroom closures

SCOTUSBlog

Gun possession and immigration status. United States , Melvyn Gear, an Australian citizen who resides in Hawaii on an H-1B visa, asks the justices to decide whether Section 922(g)(5)(B) also requires proof of knowledge of collateral law. 18 U.S.C. §

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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

SCOTUSBlog

Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born controlled Philippines, Puerto Rico, or Hawaii, he always believed that treating one group of people differently from others was a recurrence of the old cancer. born children. Last year, Peter S.

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Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon: a unique class action against fossil fuel companies presses for climate accountability in the United States

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In addition to more intense storms, the municipalities allege other physical climate change impacts, including coral reef degradation and massive algal blooms, as well as social, educational, and economic losses, including increased immigration from the municipalities and damages to the agricultural industry.