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Associated PressDecember 13, 2015

There’s no legal or historical precedent for closing U.S. borders to the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but neither is there any Supreme Court case that clearly prevents a president or Congress from doing so. Legal experts are divided over how the high court would react to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s call for a temporary […]

Melissa RossOctober 21, 2015

An emailed report from the National Immigration Justice Center (NIJC) claims widespread abuse of detained immigrants at the Baker County Detention Center. The report, “Lives in Peril: How Ineffective Inspections Make ICE Complicit in Immigration Detention Abuse” was released by the National Immigration Justice Center (NIJC) and Detention Watch Network (DWN). The report draws on information […]

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No consensus about legality of Donald Trump’s idea of Muslim ban

Email insights: Report details immigrant abuse at Baker County Detention Center