Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Obama administration efforts to cut down on swelling number of deportation cases has been less than successful, the Washington Post reports. An internal review found that more deportation cases are cropping up at a quicker pace than the administration has time to handle. The idea is to close deportation cases of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a dramatic departure from tough laws in Arizona and Alabama, the California Senate Thursday approved a bill that would bar local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration officials on most cases, the LA Times reports. The Trust Act bans local police from detaining suspects for possible deportation unless they have serious…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An undocumented immigrant who interrupted a state legislative hearing on immigration may be deported to Mexico – a place he barely remembers, the News & Observer in North Carolina reports. Uriel Alberto was about 8 years old when his parents, seeking a better life, moved to the U.S. He is now 25…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Immigration officials won’t try to deport a former Rutgers student whose actions cast a national spotlight on the issue of anti-gay bullying, the Record reports. The native of India, Dharun Ravi, who is considered a legal permanent resident, could have been deported after his May 15 conviction on charges that he encouraged…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com So far President Obama’s immigration policies are unlikely to woo Latino voters, especially after Homeland Security reported last week that too few deportations are being halted under the administration. Now pressure is building for Obama to loosen his policies in hopes of gaining more support from Latinos, who overwhelmingly supported the president…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement manipulated the system and did highly questionable things to meet deportation goals, the Center for Investigative Reporting reported in the Washington Post. The news organization reported that ICE included in its stats more than 19,000 immigrants who exited the U.S. the previous year….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The fallout from the Times Square car bomb case on May 1 could lead to deportations. A federal immigration judge in Boston has scheduled an Aug. 10 deportation hearing for Pakistani Pir Khan, 43, of Watertown, Mass., one of three men arrested after FBI agents acted on information provided by the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A resident of Flushing, N.Y., who hailed from China, is headed off to prison for buying illegal cigarettes from undercover ATF agents and paying in cash and with Ectasy-like pills, authorities said. Rui Bai Wang, 33, was sentenced last week to 5 years and 10 months in prison in…
