By MIRIAM JORDAN A new Obama administration plan to deport Central American families has drawn the ire of immigration advocates and two Democratic presidential candidates, and derision from immigration opponents, who doubt it will achieve its goals. Starting early next month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a Department of Homeland […]
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If immigration officials catch him some day and he is deported, Angel Estrada, 48, already knows whom he will call, and at what hotel in Mexico he will meet his family before attempting to rebuild his life in his hometown of Cuernavaca. Estrada’s daughter, Karla, 24, who like her father […]
Hundreds of mentally disabled immigrants ordered deported after having to represent themselves in court will get a chance to contest their expulsion with help from an attorney under a settlement approved on Friday, a civil liberties group said. A federal judge in Los Angeles, Dolly Gee, signed off on the […]
By Jerry Markon Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter scaled back cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration- enforcement efforts in April 2014, accusing agents of aggressively targeting for deportation illegal immigrants who led otherwise law-abiding lives. Then he got a visit from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. And a […]