Immigration Law

Supreme Court Has A Term To Remember – NPR News

In the last 10 days alone, the high court upheld the Obama health care law, struck down much of the Arizona immigration law and ruled unconstitutional mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles convicted of murder. Chief Justice …

New Canadian Immigration Rules May Pave the Way for Simpler Immigration Says Davis Immigration Law Offices – YAHOO!

Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney announced a number of significant changes and updates to the Canadian immigration system on June 28th, 2012 in Calgary. Canadian immigration laywer David Davis says this is welcome news …

State Senate OKs bill that would blunt deportation efforts – Los Angeles Times

A bill that that would restrict California law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement efforts passed the state Senate on Thursday. The Trust Act would prohibit police and sheriff’s officials from detaining arrestees …

California Senate OKs bill that would blunt deportation efforts – Los Angeles Times

A bill that that would restrict California law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement efforts passed the state Senate on Thursday. The Trust Act would prohibit police and sheriff’s officials from detaining arrestees …

Deadline today in Alabama immigration lawsuits on effect of recent Supreme Court decision – Everything Alabama Blog

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — How should Arizona’s court battle influence Alabama’s immigration law? Today marks the deadline for the parties suing over Alabama’s immigration law to file briefs with a federal appeals court as to how the Alabama law is affected … Continue reading

Was Justice Scalia too political this Supreme Court term? – Palm Beach Post (blog)

Scalia, 76, joined the high court in 1986. He was on the losing end of the court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act, the Arizona immigration law, lying about military medals and prison sentences for both crack cocaine offenders and … Continue reading

Judge to revisit injunction on SC immigration law – The State

A federal judge will reconsider Monday his injunction against parts of South Carolina’s immigration law, including a requirement for local police to conduct immigration status checks. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel filed an order late last …

Obama Overstepped Congress and Americans On Illegal Immigration – The Ledger

Did the president of the United States overstep Congress on an illegal immigration deportation law? Wake up, America, of course he did and thumbed his nose at all Americans who support and believe in the Congress rule of law including … Continue reading

One royal mess to another for Obama – Boston Herald

However, regarding the law’s central and most controversial element — requiring officers to inquire into the immigration status of anyone picked up for some other violation — the ruling was definitive, indeed unanimous. No liberal-conservative divide here.

California Senate passes "anti-Arizona" immigration bill – YAHOO!

SACRAMENTO (Reuters) – The California Senate on Thursday passed a bill supporters dub the “anti-Arizona” law, which seeks to shield illegal immigrants from status checks by local police and challenges Republican-backed immigration crackdowns in other U.S. states.