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Student Fights in Maryland County Schools Prompt Questionable Surveillance by Homeland Security

The Crime Report

In response to a series of student fights that broke out at public schools in Prince George’s County, Maryland, school district officials invited the Department of Homeland Security to monitor to monitor social media, allowing the agency to access student data that they could potentially collect and into any of the many federal DHS databases, creating (..)

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US federal prosecutors announce charges against 13 members of MS-13 gang

JURIST

Therefore, the Joint Task Force Vulcan (JTFV), FBI and US Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) have pledged to collaborate special agents to “continue to maximize global efforts to dismantle illicit operations like Market & Spruce-13.”

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Second chance to evaluate ban on encouraging unlawful immigration

SCOTUSBlog

Helaman Hansen ran an immigration-advising service called Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce. The encourage-or-induce ban is unconstitutionally overbroad, the 9th Circuit reasoned in that case, because it penalizes general, benign immigration advocacy on behalf of people in the country without authorization.

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Maryland’s Frederick County to Pay $125k Discrimination Settlement to Salvadoran Woman

LegalReader

The lawsuit claimed Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins actively side-stepped federal law, forcing "suspicious" motorists to undergo immigration checks for even petty offenses.

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United States: 125 Indians And Chinese Sue USCIS Over Risk Of Green Card Loss - Fakhoury Global Immigration

Mondaq

A group of 125 Indian and Chinese immigrants approved for employment-based green cards sued U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in federal court in Maryland on August 3, 2021.

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‘Blood Money’: How Profit Shapes U.S. Incarceration

The Crime Report

She also found that between 1718 to 1775, over 52,000 convicts were transported to the American colonies to labor on farms in Maryland and Virginia — beginning a cycle of intertwining punishment and physical labor in America’s roots. Additional Reading: Private Prison Provider Unjustly Profited From Immigrant Detainees, Jury Rules.

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Israeli citizen challenges U.S. wire-fraud conviction for foreign financial scheme

SCOTUSBlog

As part of its retention efforts, Yukom employees emailed two investors in Maryland and contacted a third by phone call. Federal prosecutors arrested Elbaz while she was on vacation in New York and charged her with three counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to the Maryland communications. In Elbaz v.

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