All posts tagged "Immigration Law"

NOTE: This story has been updated. Due to a miscommunication, the original version attributed quotes to a lawyer, Daniel Perez, that were actually made by his paralegal, Jay Bar-Levy. Perez declined to comment.

A breastfeeding mother from Colombia living in Florida with a pending asylum application was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Sunday and faces a potential transfer to Texas, according to a filing in the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, obtained by Raw Story.

Despite Yury Ussa Polania's claim of “lawful presence” in the U.S. and “irreparable harm” to her young child, a U.S. citizen to whom she provides primary care, immigration lawyers said the 43-year-old, who filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus following her arrest for a "non-violent misdemeanor" on May 5, faces an “uphill battle” to be released — a situation becoming more common under the Trump administration's hardline immigration policy, Hector Diaz, an immigration attorney in Miami, told Raw Story....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two months before the Supreme Court hears arguments over Arizona's controversial new immigration law, another courtroom battle will take center stage, this time over Alabama's immigration crackdown.

WASHINGTON — A court on Thursday blocked key provisions of a controversial new immigration law by the southeastern US state of South Carolina, less than two weeks before it was to take effect.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether Arizona's tough law cracking down on illegal immigrants can take effect, a case arising from the fierce national debate on immigration policy ahead of next year's presidential election.

When the state of Alabama arrested a German director of the Mercedes-Benz factory in Tuscaloosa for failing to carry his driver's license, it seemed to be a fluke, an amusing but statistically unlikely outcome of that state's harsh new immigration law.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) - Two Justice Department officials said they returned to Alabama on Monday as "boots on the ground" to sift through some of the more than 1,000 e-mails and calls received on a hotline fielding concerns about the state's tough new immigration law.