A Sign of the Times?
This art is on display at the Hammer Museum in Westwood Village. The exhibit is Made in LA.
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Read AILA's Response to the DHS Open Letter to Immigration Attorneys
Last month, James Percival, DHS's General Counsel, wrote an open letter to AILA purporting to blame immigration attorneys for the asylum backlog and characterizing asylum applications as "meritless." AILA's Executive Director Benjamin Johnson's thoughtful response is available here. In it, he writes:
More Deportation Judges
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced another class of judges: 22 permanent and 4 temporary. The names and biographies of the new judges are available here.
There’s been an uptick in ICE arrests in the Bay Area, immigration attorneys warn
As election day nears, ICE operations appear to be on the rise. Several attorneys report that several ICE arrests across the Bay Area "reflect increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement." "Bay Area `rapid response' hotlines monitoring immigration arrests have seen an uptick in reports since this weekend, said
Seattle U Students Support Immigration Detainees Through Legal Aid and Advocacy
Read here about the good work of Seattle University law school students for immigrants