The Crime Report

MAY 28, 2021

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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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2024

In late February, a federal district judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing the law from being enforced, noting that the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution and US Supreme Court precedent place immigration matters under federal jurisdiction.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. It also empowers state magistrate judges to hear immigration cases and issue removal orders, in addition to giving law enforcement the responsibility of ensuring compliance with the law. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2023

Director Nils Muižnieks issued his statement after Greece’s Court of Appeal of Mytilene dropped some of the misdemeanor charges previously laid against the volunteers. The statute of limitations for the remaining misdemeanor charges against the two will expire in February. All we want is justice. We want this to go to trial.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hong Kong residents in the US are not covered if they voluntarily returned to Hong Kong, have not continuously resided in the US, have been convicted of a felony or two misdemeanors, are subject to extradition, or have otherwise been determined by US officials to be unsafe to remain.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Greg Abbott ’s Operation Lone Star , the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled unanimously Wednesday that Travis County courts can’t weigh claims of wrongful detention caused by misdemeanor arrests 200 miles away. Etter said some of the men have had their cases dismissed for other reasons.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 1, 2021

California , which involves whether police pursuits for misdemeanors justify a warrantless entry, an issue which has divided the lower courts. However, the Supreme Court’s exigent circumstances precedents have not yet addressed pursuits involving suspected misdemeanors, which are by far the most common basis for arrest.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 18, 2022

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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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Colorado 23-831 Issues : (1) Whether a prior misdemeanor conviction that elevates a subsequent offense from a misdemeanor to a felony is an element of the subsequent offense that must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt under Apprendi v. New Jersey ; and (2) whether this court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

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.” The court also granted and transferred in Pfeister v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2021

Moreover, some $40 per month of misdemeanor probation fees mostly go directly to the county system. From June to July of 2020, Mendez was a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of California Berkeley School of Law conducting research on legal scholarship and immigration law. The full report can be accessed here.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Holistic representation requires an interdisciplinary team that includes not just criminal defense lawyers and related support staff (investigators and paralegals) but also civil, family, and immigration lawyers, as well as social workers and nonlawyer advocates — all working collaboratively and on an equal footing with each other.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

There is nothing unlawful about conveying individuals who are lawfully in the country pending their immigration hearings. It reportedly includes claims of felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, but didn’t name individual suspects.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2024

Civil rights groups filed a complaint on Thursday against Iowa state officials to stop the state’s recently enacted immigration law from going into effect on July 1. The law makes it a crime for a foreign national to enter Iowa after having been deported from the US in the past, regardless of current immigration status.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2024

In late February, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing the law from being enforced, noting that the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution and US Supreme Court precedent place immigration matters under federal jurisdiction. Justice Alito stayed the Fifth Circuit’s order on March 4 without explaining his reasoning.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The bill creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. It also empowers state magistrate judges to hear immigration cases and issue removal orders in addition to giving law enforcement the responsibility of ensuring compliance with the law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

Share Federal immigration law requires the deportation of noncitizens who are convicted of an aggravated felony, which includes offenses “relating to obstruction of justice.” By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in Pugin v. Such “redundancies are common in statutory drafting,” Kavanaugh wrote.

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JURIST

APRIL 17, 2024

” The articles claimed that Mayorkas failed to comply with US law and breached public trust in his handling of the US-Mexico border and immigration matters. .” ” The articles claimed that Mayorkas failed to comply with US law and breached public trust in his handling of the US-Mexico border and immigration matters.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

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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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Marcos Mendez was returning to the United States in 2016 when his passport was flagged at immigration in Chicagos OHare International Airport. This was not Mendezs first hold-up at immigration. The other was a 2010 arrest for child pornography, which resulted in a misdemeanor conviction for endangering a child.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2021

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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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Stop the Violence in the Sex Trades Act, introduced by Senator Julia Salazar, would decriminalize consensual sex between adults in exchange for a fee, which is currently a class B misdemeanor.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

With the decriminalization of jaywalking in Nevada , Virginia and now California — the “ Freedom to Walk ” Act will take effect in Los Angeles in the new year — it appears that people understand this when it comes to jaywalking, but not when it comes to immigration. . When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

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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The Crime Report

APRIL 15, 2022

In New York, unlicensed massage is a class E felony, punishable by up to four years in prison, whereas prostitution is a class B misdemeanor. Race and gender bias in arrest and conviction rates persist, even if overall numbers are declining.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2025

” 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. The defense team for Judge Hannah Dugan is likely thinking, “This is not helpful.”

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

police obtained an arrest warrant for Tarrio in the banner burning, charging him with destruction of property, a misdemeanor. The misdemeanor crime carries a maximum sentence of six months in prison and a $5,000 fine. After the demonstration, D.C. The judge ordered Tarrio to report to jail within two weeks.

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JURIST

JANUARY 20, 2021

The deportation of any national of Venezuela, or immigrant without nationality who habitually resided in Venezuela, who is present in the US as of January 20 will be deferred for 18 months. Because of this, Trump said that it was in the foreign policy interest of the US to defer the deportation of Venezuelan nationals.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Innovation Law Lab , a challenge to the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy, which allows the Department of Homeland Security to return immigrants seeking asylum to Mexico while they wait for an asylum hearing in U.S. immigration courts. Alcaraz-Enriquez (Feb. California (Feb. United States v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

DHS had waived the requirements of NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and other laws pursuant to Section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. CBAF reported that the second activist was sentenced to two years in prison, with both years deferred.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2024

The hearings this week may reveal conduct that reaches the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. It is also true, in my opinion, that none of those things amount to high crimes and misdemeanors warranting his impeachment. Immigration has long been an area of intense policy disagreements. 2680(a) for policy-based judgments.

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JURIST

JULY 4, 2023

Harper ), immigration ( US v. The US Constitution says that Justices may serve as long as they exhibit “good behavior” and can face impeachment for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Milligan and Moore v. Texas ), Affirmative Action ( Students for Fair Admissions v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

Oyer, the pardon attorney for the DOJ, was fired March 7, 2025, and asserts her termination resulted from refusal to recommend restoration of firearm rights to Mel Gibson, who lost these rights in a 2011 misdemeanor domestic violence conviction. Immigration We expected to see an increase in demand for immigration attorneys.

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