Part of a voter-approved measure aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration in Arizona is now enforceable. A judge will hear arguments this Friday on whether to temporarily block it.
Part of Proposition 314 makes it a misdemeanor to illegally enter Arizona from another country, and it authorizes state judges to order deportations.
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office wants this left in place, writing in court documents that it only applies to those who entered on or after July 14, when the law took effect.
The ACLU is suing top law enforcement officials on behalf of a local legal aid group that works with migrants in the federal system.
They want a judge to block enforcement while their constitutional challenge goes forward.
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The ruling comes a day after news broke of the government’s plan to offer legal aid to detained immigrant children through a $150 million contract Burke Law Group — a small Texas-based firm with a co-founder who is a former Trump appointee. -
A notice posted on the Federal Register this week details a $150 million government contract with Burke Law Group to represent unaccompanied immigrant children. A multimillion-dollar contact with nonprofits across the country to do the work expired Friday. -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is supposed to help people during disasters like floods and fires. But a new report finds the Trump administration diverted FEMA staff at key times to do something very different — help ICE in immigration enforcement. -
The DACA program turned 14 this year. The Obama-era initiative is supposed to give some undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children a work permit and temporary protection from deportation. But community members say that’s no longer the case under President Donald Trump. -
Some 20,000 children alone in the US receive legal aid through the contract — part of a federal program established by Congress almost two decades ago. The contract to do that work expires July 31.
