Tuesday, June 18, 2013

House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES

House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES: "Here’s some of what the SAFE Act does:

Hands states and localities the power to pass and enforce their own criminal and civil penalties for immigration violations.  The provision is in direct opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling last year over Arizona’s SB 1070.
Authorize all local police to act as immigration agents, essentially nationalizing the 287(g) program, which has been widely criticized for encouraging racial profiling and eroding police-community trust.  
Lets local cops detain immigrants in their jails for up to two weeks and then requires ICE to lock up all immigrants that local cops detain.
Expands the kinds and categories of crimes that make people mandatorily deportable, without recourse to a judge. This would include people the government “has reason to believe” have ever been a member of a gang, even without a conviction."

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House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES

House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES: "After acting for months like the delinquent little cousin of the Senate, the House Judiciary Committee will finally take up immigration reform tomorrow when it considers a bill introduced on Friday by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-SC.  But unlike the Senate immigration reform package that would legalize millions of undocumented immigrants while also expanding border and workplace enforcement, the Gowdy bill does only the later, and in the worst way. The SAFE Act, as it’s called, would vastly expand immigration enforcement programs, curtail legal rights of non-citizens and authorize state and local law enforcement to act like immigration agents whenever they want to.  

“The SAFE Act is a callous assault on immigrants and will just lead to more detentions and deportations,” says Silky Shah of Detention Watch Network. “It would allow for the prolonged detention of thousands of immigrants and require expansion of detention.”"

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

House votes to defund Obama's 'administrative amnesty' for immigrants - The Hill's Floor Action

House votes to defund Obama's 'administrative amnesty' for immigrants - The Hill's Floor Action:


"Democrats said King's language is a "poison pill" that would not survive final passage, and that the Supreme Court has ruled that the executive branch has the right to prioritize cases through an order.

"So for the gentleman to argue that there is some constitutional infirmity with deferred action is wrong," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said in response to King's arguments. "He's wrong on the law. He's wrong on his constitutional argument.""

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