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Deportation Roulette

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Arlene M. Roberts

It is understood that a legal permanent resident who has a brush with the law would be subject to the consequences - including deportation - based on ...

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Crimmigration: How Misdemeanor Offenses Are Becoming Modern-Day Jim Crow Laws

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Enoch C. Wines, Immigration Detention, Rehabilitation, War on Drugs, Crimmigration, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, East Hidalgo Detention Center, Immigrants-in-Detention, Laredo Contract Detention Facility, La Villa, Marijuana Possession, Misdemeanor Conviction, Misdemeanor Offenses, Penal System, Penitentiary, Penology, Port Isabel Detention Center, Recidivism, Rehabiliative Penology, South Texas Detention Center, Tent City, T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility, Willacy County Detention Center, Harry G. Levine, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

In his recently released book "Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire", author Robert Perkinson analyzes the life and times of America's harshest, l...

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Minor Infractions: Supreme Court to Hear Case Involving Immigrants With Low-Level Possession Offenses

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Caribbean Returnees, CARICOM Returnees, Criminal Law, Federal Immigration Law, Idp, Immigrant Defense Project, National Immigrant Justice Center, Carachuri-Rosendo, Crimmigration, Gary Patrick Anderson, Breaking Political News, Martin Escobar, Praxedis Castro-Rodriguez, Donald Overton Powell, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

One week from today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder which can potentially impact countless legal immigrants and asylum seekers.

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