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Supreme Court rules against immigrants in detention case

Jessica Gresko

The Seattle Times

2019-03-19

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crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a group of immigrants in a case about the government’s power to detain them after they’ve committed crimes but finished their sentences.

The issue in the case before the justices had to do with the detention of noncitizens who have committed a broad range of crimes that make them deportable. Immigration law tells the government it must arrest those people when they are released from custody and then hold them while an immigration court decides whether they should be deported.

But those affected by the law aren’t...

Southern Poverty Law Center fires co-founder Morris Dees

Melissa Brown and Brian Edwards

Montgomery Advertiser

2019-03-14

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crime, fraud, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, Oregon, ORS 181A.820, OFIR, SPLC

The Southern Poverty Law Center fired Morris Dees, the nonprofit civil rights organization's co-founder and former chief litigator.

SPLC President Richard Cohen said in a statement Dees' dismissal over his misconduct was effective on Wednesday, March 13....

"As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world," Cohen said in the emailed statement. "When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the...

Oregon Department of Corrections: Criminal Alien Report February 2019

Data Compiled By David Olen Cross

2019-03-13

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crime, enforcement, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, taxes, ORS 181A.820, Oregon legislation

The Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) February 1, 2019 Inmate Population Profile indicated there were 14,756 inmates incarcerated in the DOC’s 14 prisons.

Data obtained from the DOC indicated that on February 1st there were 913 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) incarcerated in the state’s prison system; criminal aliens were 6.19 percent of the total prison population.

Some background information, all the criminal aliens incarcerated in the DOC prison system were identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and have ICE detainers placed on them.

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U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons: Criminal Alien Report February 2019

By David Olen Cross

2019-03-11

Tags:

border, crime, enforcement, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, Oregon legislation

The United States having a significant foreign national population residing within the nations boundaries, be they legally or illegally present in the country, unfortunately includes those who commit crimes.

The extent and impact of foreign national crime on the U.S. citizens and residents of this country is clearly revealed by a simple search on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmates statistics website under the heading of inmate citizenship.

Here are the countries of origin, moreover, the number and percentage of those countries citizens recently incarcerated in...

Democrats Winning 90% Congressional Districts with Large Foreign-Born Populations

John Binder

Breitbart

2019-03-07

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election, voter registration, legal immigration, amnesty, government, voter registration, Democrat

Mass legal immigration is driving Democrats towards full electoral dominance, with left-wing politicians winning nearly 90 percent of congressional districts with larger than average foreign-born populations, analysis finds.

The Atlantic senior editor Ronald Brownstein analyzed Census Bureau statistics for the 2018 midterm elections, finding that the country’s admission of more than a million legal immigrants every year is set to hand over electoral dominance to House and Senate Democrats.

Among Brownstein’s findings is that nearly 90 percent of House congressional...

Eleventh Circuit Rules DACA Recipients are Illegal Aliens

Dale Wilcox

Immigration Reform Law Institute

2019-03-06

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immigration, DACA, deferred action, Dream act, Congress, national legislation

WASHINGTON - Today the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued the first opinion by a federal circuit court classifying Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients as illegal aliens. The court’s opinion, which closely tracks a friend-of-the-court brief that the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) had filed in the case, makes clear that DACA recipients are “inadmissible and thus removable” under federal law. According to the Court, their deportation has merely been “reprieved” by an Obama-era policy that “encouraged” government officials to “exercise prosecutorial...

Feds: Forgery operation produced over 10,000 fake documents

ANDREW SELSKY

2019-03-05

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crime, fraud, voter registration, driver's license, illegal aliens, Oregon

SALEM, Ore.- Located in an apartment in a primarily Hispanic town in Oregoon, a clandestine lab churned out thousands of fake Social Security cards, drivers' licenses and immigration documents that were sold around the United States for years.

The operation, revealed for the first time Tuesday in a federal court document, showed that a syndicate based in Oaxaca, Mexico, operated the forged-document factory in Woodburn, a town of 24,000 in an agricultural region a half-hour's drive from Portland.

Employers, including farms, nurseries and wineries, routinely employ people...

Oregon’s Washington County Second in Foreign National Crime in January 2019

By David Olen Cross

2019-03-02

Tags:

border, crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, cost, illegal aliens

On January 1, 2019 Oregon’s Washington County had 192 of the 909 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) incarcerated in the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) prison system; the county was second in foreign national crime in the state with 21.12 percent of the criminal aliens in DOC prisons.

The following table reveals how Washington County residents were harmed or victimized by the 192 criminal aliens incarcerated on January 1st in the DOC prison system with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ICE detainers.

OREGON DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS...

Despite threats, ‘sanctuary’ cities are getting their grants -- except Oregon

The Associated Press

2019-03-02

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crime, enforcement, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, ORS 181A.820

MONTPELIER, Vt. — About 18 months after the Trump administration threatened to withhold law enforcement grants from nearly 30 places around the country it felt weren’t doing enough to work with federal immigration agents, all but one have received or been cleared to get the money, the Justice Department said.

In most cases, courts chipped away at the crackdown that escalated in November 2017...saying those policies may violate federal law.

Of those 29 jurisdictions ... only Oregon has yet to be cleared to receive the grants from 2017, a Justice Department spokesman...

USBP Agents Arrest Previously Removed Rapist

US Customs and Border Protection

2019-03-01

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Border Patrol, Mexico, crime, cost, illegal aliens, Oregon, ORS 181A.820

TUCSON, Ariz. – Tucson Sector Border Patrol Agents apprehended a previously deported Mexican national with a violent criminal history after he entered the U.S. illegally Thursday morning east of Nogales.

During processing, agents conducting a records check on 38-year-old Juan Maldonado-Martinez discovered his Oregon convictions for rape in the third degree in 2003 and forgery in the first degree in 2004.

Maldonado will remain in federal custody to face felony immigration prosecution.

All persons apprehended by the Border Patrol undergo criminal history checks using...

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