By Mark Wilson – American-Statesman Staff Interim Police Chief Brian Manley said the Austin Police Department will now allow officers to ask detainees about their immigration status. The policy changes come a day after a federal court ruling allowed portions of Senate Bill 4, the controversial “sanctuary cities” ban, to […]
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By Julian Aguilar June 07, 2017 A 15,000-member association of attorneys and law professors said on Wednesday that it is relocating its 2018 convention out of Texas in response to the state legislature passing Senate Bill 4, a sweeping and controversial immigration enforcement measure. The American Immigration Lawyers Association was […]