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Oct 06
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Family and Juvenile Law: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and the California Courts

By | Immigrant Youth, Immigration Relief, Law & Policy, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), State Policies, State Policy, Unaccompanied Minors

Family and Juvenile Law: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and the California Courts

Judicial Council of California (October 6, 2014)

California Senate Bill 873 clarifies the role and responsibility of the superior courts in making the findings needed for determining whether an individual is eligible for Special Immigration Juvenile Status. This report provides information regarding the background for this legislation as well as the efforts underway to assist the courts (i.e., providing education, resources, and other services).

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Aug 24
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This is Our Home

By | In the News

This is Our Home

The Texas Observer (August, 24, 2014)

Part two of a series titled “Beyond the Border”. This segment titled “This is Our Home” discusses the experiences of a rancher who lives close to an immigration checkpoint and has found bodies, clothing, food, and other items of immigrants who were trying to make it through Brooks County, TX without being caught.

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Aug 22
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Civil rights groups sue to bar expedited deportations of Central American families

By | In the News

Civil rights groups sue to bar expedited deportations of Central American families

The Washington Post (August 22, 2014)

Civil rights group files a lawsuit asking a federal court to stop the Obama administration from expediting families being held in Artesia, NM. The 60-page legal complaint, on behalf of seven women and three children at the facility in Artesia, N.M., alleges that the Department of Homeland Security has denied due process rights to the families as it seeks to deport the hundreds of undocumented immigrants being housed there.

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Aug 13
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Undocumented and Underage: The Crisis of Migrant Children

By | In the News

Undocumented and Underage: The Crisis of Migrant Children

Vice News (August 13, 2014)

This is a twelve-minute video that shows VICE News traveling to the border between Texas and Tamaulipas to speak to people who have been detained on both sides of the border. They told us about their reasons for crossing the border, how they were detained, what their stay was like inside the detention centers, their plans for the future, and their fears.

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Aug 11
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Brutality and ‘The Beast’: why child migration to U.S. is slowing down

By | In the News

Brutality and ‘The Beast’: why child migration to U.S. is slowing down

Yahoo! (August 11, 2014)

This article discusses the reasons behind the number of child migrants has fallen sharply. They include: tighter border policing, raids on the famously dangerous Bestia, road checkpoints, horror tales told by deportees who grappled with drug gangs on the way north, a U.S.-funded advertising blitz on the dangers of the journey, and the high-profile arrests of several human smugglers, or coyotes.

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Aug 08
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My grandpa was ‘unaccompanied minor’ to U.S. — in 1907

By | In the News

My grandpa was ‘unaccompanied minor’ to U.S. — in 1907

CNN (August 8, 2014)

The author discusses his family’s history with migration, as his grandfather had immigrated to the country in 1907. This author describes his grandfather’s past and contrasts his situation with the immigration crisis and how he believes that the way people are reacting to the fleeing of children from violence in their countries is negative and wrong.

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Aug 08
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A Top Immigration Judge Calls For Shift On ‘Fast-Tracking’

By | In the News

A Top Immigration Judge Calls For Shift On ‘Fast-Tracking’

NPR (August 8, 2014)

As the Obama administration says the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the Southwest border is declining, the White House is being urged to stop fast-tracking their deportation hearings. That call is coming from an unusual source: one of the nation’s top immigration judges. This judge asserts that fast-tracking increases the likelihood of further clogging the court system, as the practice could lead to appeals based on non-citizens’ lack of understanding of the U.S. process.

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