Oklahoma state rep. who authored anti-immigrant law is charged in bribery probe
http://bit.ly/f14Chz State Representative Randy Terrill authored Oklahoma’s anti-immigrant HB 1804 which was passed in 2007.
Republicans say immigration reform is DOA in 2011
http://wapo.st/hqbgiy The Washington Post reports that Republicans are announcing any immigration reforms including the Dream Act dead on arrival in the next Congress. They say the question is border security. The Dream Act and other immigration reforms in the USA have been held hostage by one party or the other for several years looking for […]
Tenth Circuit upholds most of injunction against Oklahoma immigration law
The story is here. This is not surprising at all. This law was poorly thought out in many regards. While the anti-immigrant think tank in Washington, D.C., who wrote this law can keep pushing these state anti-immigrant laws, what about the taxpayers of each state who have to foot the bill for these ill advised […]
An excellent judge
Reg Gaston was a fine judge. He understood the concept of being an impartial decisionmaker and practiced it daily. Win or lose, all any good trial lawyer wants is a fair hearing. I always got it with Judge Gaston. *** Retired Special Judge of the District Court of Cleveland County Reginald “Reg” Gaston, 65, died […]
Poll saying Oklahoma high school students could not pass naturalization exam might be fabricated
Back in September, I posted this link. The brilliant Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com points out essentially what a bunch of crap this survey was which disparaged Oklahoma high school students and our state’s public education system. Thanks to Mr. Silver for debunking the survey results.
Tulsa County Sheriff policy regarding attorney use of interpreters
The Tulsa County Jail interpreter policy was obtained through an open records request. Please note that in March 2009, the Tulsa County Sheriff started not allowing immigration lawyers to bring their multi-lingual staff into the David L. Moss Detention Center. This detention facility contracts with ICE to hold most of the immigration detainees in Oklahoma. The […]
Tulsa County Sheriff Memorandum of Agreement with USDHS
This Memorandum of Agreement was obtained by me by making an open records request to the Tulsa County Sheriff.
Somedays you see justice
I remember back in the early 1990s while in law school and then as a young attorney when I faced off against the U.S. Department of Justice in a case involving an immigration detainee being held indefinitely in a federal prison. The idea, according to the government, was that his detention was not indefinite because […]
Unlawfully detained man gets $145,000 settlement
The story is here. I outline this area of law here. I’ve seen citizens be detained unlawfully. I’ve seen permanent residents be detained unlawfully. I’ve seen persons in the United States on visas be detained unlawfully. I’ve even seen unlawfully present foreign nationals be detained unlawfully. The law in this area is fairly well spelled […]
IAQ — Immigration Alien Query
One of the procedures used by state and local law enforcement called “Immigration Alien Query” is outlined below. August 4, 2007 three Newark, NJ college students were murdered and one seriously injured when they were shot execution style. Four suspects were arrested, one of which was in the country illegally and had been previously arrested […]