I was reminded again today that most state judges simply don't comprehend the trauma that even a chance of imm. enforcement causes non-citizens.
If you don't already understand why my client lives in fear of being detained & exiled by ICE I'm just not sure how to explain it tbh
If you don't already understand why my client lives in fear of being detained & exiled by ICE I'm just not sure how to explain it tbh
My client didn't appear bc he knew that he had a deportation order & that ICE would be waiting.
While I sincerely appreciate the court agreeing w/our request not to impose bail after removing the default, I can't agree that this decision was merely "putting his head in the sand"
While I sincerely appreciate the court agreeing w/our request not to impose bail after removing the default, I can't agree that this decision was merely "putting his head in the sand"
Thanks to the Trump administration's twisted anti-federalism, states which share information w/ICE and allow them into courthouses are voluntarily giving up on prosecuting a substantial number of non-citizens. Yet they continue to defend all of this in the name of "public safety"
Imagine knowing that someone is waiting to separate you from your family w/no chance of return just for following a court's orders.
Would you risk it? Ofc not.
Yet this is the choice we force on thousands of non-citizens daily--& then shame them for making in favor of survival.
Would you risk it? Ofc not.
Yet this is the choice we force on thousands of non-citizens daily--& then shame them for making in favor of survival.
In last week's debate, the president of the United States said that only "low IQ" immigrants would ever voluntarily show up to the immigration courts he has unilateral control over--and no one is actually ever grabbed and deported from those. I wonder what he'd say about this?
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