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Deportation Without Due Process" Shines Light on Government "Stipulated Order of Removal" Program, Finds Evidence of Misuse
FULLERTON, Calif., Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Using a little-known government program, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pushed nearly 160,000 immigrants - many with deep ties to the United States - through an expedited deportation process, sometimes without adequately informing them of their right to a day in court, according to a new analysis of thousands of pages of released government documents. The report, written by attorneys and law professors at Stanford Law School, the National Immigration Law Center, and Western State University College of Law, determined that DHS agents administering the program provided legally i...
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Background
Deportation, according to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, is "the formal removal of an alien from ...
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IN MAY 2008, THE SAW DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE REPORTED THAT THE CORRECTIONS Corporation of America (CCA) announced plans to build a 3,000-bed megaprison in...
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On the fifth anniversary of their clients' arrests, lawyers at a Yale Law School clinic are asking the federal government to drop deportation cases against eight day laborers in Danbury in light of its new policy on prosecutorial discretion.
The city of Danbury and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this spring agreed to a $650,000 settlement in a civil rights case, brought by the clinic, charging that the men were arrested as the result of racial profiling.
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Jeanette Vizguerra, 39, is a mother of four, a taxpayer and a businesswoman. She is also one of millions who live in the U.S. without documents. After living in Colorado for 14 years, she's facing the possibility of deportation.
No one can understand what it possibly feels like to be in this situation," Vizguerra said. "I'd like to go on contributing to this country and community.
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YORK, Pa., April 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In a stunning decision, Judge Andrew Arthur ended deportation proceedings against Paula Spiers, a 43 year-old British citizen who immigrated to the United States over 40 years ago. Spiers, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania resident, was facing removal from the United States due to three minor convictions that date back to 2008. The charges range from retail theft to possession of controlled dangerous substances.
Ms. Spiers was granted Cancellation of Removal and immediately released from custody following a deportation trial," stated Raymond Lahoud, Spiers' deportation defense attorney and a partner of one of America's leading deportation defense law firms, Easton, Pennsylvania based Baurkot and Baurkot. "Cancellation of Removal is a form of relief t...
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO - When Rohan Coombs joined the U.S. Marine Corps, he never thought one day he would be locked up in an immigration detention center and facing deportation from the country he had vowed to defend.