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.
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 […]
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 […]
Crimmigration: A new word for me and an article on the privatization of immigration detention
Boston Review — Tom Barry: A Death in Texas: “Legal scholars have taken to calling this increasing merger of criminal and immigration law and the integration of the criminal justice and immigration systems “crimmigration.” An interesting article outlines death, immigration detention and making cash off of private immigration detention.
NY Times editorial blasts 287(g) and other local enforcement of immigration laws
Wrong Paths to Immigration Reform – Editorial – NYTimes.com: “Treating the majority of illegal immigrants as potential Americans, not a criminal horde, is the right response…” I am an expert on immigration detainers. I get calls from all over the country from other lawyers and potential clients telling me their tales of woe of how […]
Many of the announced Nobel winners are US citizens but foreign born
This according to a writer at the Mercury News. According to the story, “[W]e should celebrate the presence of people like Elizabeth Blackburn, professor at the University of California-San Francisco. Blackburn was born in Australia and moved to the U.S. in 1975. On Monday, she and two other researchers learned they would receive the Nobel […]
Arrests soar for Chinese trying to enter US unlawfully
Here is the story. Do you think the economy in the USA is bad? Apparently, our economy is better than in China.
Former Altus doctor sentenced to five years in federal prison over child bride
Another sad story involving the trafficking of a foreign child comes to an end.