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Hawaii Immigration Lawyers Help You Get Your Green Card

LegalReader

Another way to obtain legal residence in Hawaii is to seek asylum.

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Asian Americans Left Out of Elected Office, Especially Criminal Justice Sector

The Crime Report

Over-policing affects Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, who are much more likely to be incarcerated than white people in Hawaii. Meanwhile, Southeast Asian Americans are at least three times more likely than other immigrants to be deported due to past criminal convictions, according to the report.

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Former Justice Grodin is one of many amici curiae in the Prop. 22 case

At the Lectern

Berryhill California Chamber of Commerce Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce, California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, NAACP California Hawaii State Conference, National Action Network Los Angeles, National Action Network Sacramento Chapter Inc., Henderson, Keith Chen, Jeffrey R.

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Illegal firearm possession and courtroom closures

SCOTUSBlog

Gun possession and immigration status. United States , Melvyn Gear, an Australian citizen who resides in Hawaii on an H-1B visa, asks the justices to decide whether Section 922(g)(5)(B) also requires proof of knowledge of collateral law. 18 U.S.C. §

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Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon: a unique class action against fossil fuel companies presses for climate accountability in the United States

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

In addition to more intense storms, the municipalities allege other physical climate change impacts, including coral reef degradation and massive algal blooms, as well as social, educational, and economic losses, including increased immigration from the municipalities and damages to the agricultural industry.

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Will Maine Decriminalize Prostitution?

The Crime Report

Advocates also say decriminalization will reduce the stigma that surrounds people involved in sex trafficking, most of whom are poor women and girls, immigrants and LGBTQ people. . Hawaii enacted a law last week that removes the statute of limitations for sex trafficking and distinguishes sex buyers from people selling sex.

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Federal appeals court allows Trump to ban immigrants without health insurance

JURIST

On Thursday the US Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the temporary restraining order on President Trump’s proclamation banning entry to immigrants without health insurance needs to be lifted. Hawaii to support their holding. As such, the Ninth Circuit lifted the temporary ban on the president’s proclamation.