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JURIST
MARCH 19, 2024
The US Supreme Court has lifted a stay that prohibited the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries, allowing the law to go into effect. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later blocked that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.
JURIST
JANUARY 3, 2024
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.
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The Crime Report
JANUARY 6, 2023
People walk dangerous routes when the government eliminates or fails to provide legal avenues that are safe, permanent and predictable whether it’s across the street or across an international border. The problems with the absence of permanent and lawful paths to entry have been decades in the making. Controlling Movement.
JURIST
MARCH 18, 2024
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indefinitely extended a stay blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later stayed that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.
The Crime Report
MAY 28, 2021
immigration enforcement has largely shifted from the street to jails, resulting in overreach and an increase in incarceration, according to a North Carolina law professor. Jailhouse screening” was supposed to speed up immigration processes and identify undocumented immigrants who posed a threat to public safety.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 11, 2021
John Adams believed that the jury trial and representative government were “the heart and lungs of liberty.”. I consider the trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution,” he wrote in a letter to Thomas Paine. Thomas Jefferson thought so too. “I
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 24, 2023
Share Federal immigration law requires the deportation of noncitizens who are convicted of an aggravated felony, which includes offenses “relating to obstruction of justice.” Further, she wrote, the the Model Penal Code is not law but only an aspirational law reform project. citizen].”
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