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US federal prosecutors announce charges against 13 members of MS-13 gang

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The other members are soon to be extradited out of El-Salvador and the surrounding areas through cooperation between US and Central America law enforcement. Three other members, located in Maryland and Virginia, were sentenced by US District Judge Paula Xinis on Thursday.

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Second chance to evaluate ban on encouraging unlawful immigration

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Sineneng-Smith , the justices reversed a circuit-court decision that struck down a federal law criminalizing the act of “encourag[ing] or induc[ing]” noncitizens to enter or remain in the United States for financial gain. Helaman Hansen ran an immigration-advising service called Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce.

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Hate Crime Laws Undermined by Bias: Report

The Crime Report

Hate crime laws in the U.S. A comprehensive national review of hate crime laws by MAP shows gaps and variances in laws after a year-long focus on COVID-era hate violence directed at Asian Americans and Asian immigrants. Hate crime laws in the U.S. According to available data, although the majority of all U.S.

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Maryland’s Frederick County to Pay $125k Discrimination Settlement to Salvadoran Woman

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The lawsuit claimed Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins actively side-stepped federal law, forcing "suspicious" motorists to undergo immigration checks for even petty offenses.

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Reflections on ReInvent Law Silicon Valley @ 10 Years – Part 2

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As discussed in yesterday’s part one , this post is the second in a three-part series of reflections on the ReInvent Law Silicon Valley event, held in Mountain View Calif., on March 8, 2013, and what it meant to the authors and to the broader movement for innovation in law. Reinvent Law was there when we were all thinking, “Could we?”

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Democrats Cry Foul as Anti-Free Speech Allies Turn Against Them

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According to the Maryland Reporter , the protesters accused Raskin of being “complicit in genocide.” After efforts to resume his remarks, University of Maryland President Darryll Pines finally ended the event early. At Stanford, law students prevented a federal judge from speaking. Pines then pulled a Raskin. and Maurice C.

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Israeli citizen challenges U.S. wire-fraud conviction for foreign financial scheme

SCOTUSBlog

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether the reach of that law extends to a fraudulent scheme that was devised abroad by a foreign citizen but involved digital communications to the United States. Lee Elbaz lived and worked in Israel as the CEO of Yukom Communications. In Elbaz v.

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