Judges thrust into debate over Trump’s immigration policies
Inside a small courtroom, a half-dozen immigrant teens and their families sat anxiously on wooden benches awaiting their immigration court hearing.
7th Circuit: Employee can’t sue for anti-immigrant bias
Federal employment discrimination law does not provide a remedy for a bank employee who claims she was fired because of her marriage to a Mexican citizen who had entered the U.S. illegally, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming a summary judgment.
High court: Parent’s years of residency not imputed to alien child
The Board of Immigration Appeals’ determination that a parent’s years of residency are not imputed to a child is a permissible construction of federal law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
Recovering damages for undocumented workers
As the number of undocumented workers rises, personal injury attorneys are increasingly struggling with how to handle illegal immigrants as clients.
Judge sentences illegal immigrant to work release
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Federal immigration officials say they won’t get involved in a work release sentence for an illegal immigrant in Milwaukee County. Armando Rodriguez-Benitez was recently sentenced to 11 months in jail for driving drunk the wrong way on a Milwaukee freeway. Judge Jeffrey Wagner sentenced the defendant to work release privileges, even though […]
Court won’t look at tuition for illegal immigrants
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a California policy that gives tuition breaks to illegal immigrants to attend public colleges and universities. The justices on Monday refused to review a California Supreme Court ruling that upheld a state law giving California high school graduates reduced tuition at state schools, regardless […]
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