February 09, 2010
Sheriff Arpaio Vows to Press On for Immigration Enforcement
"Sheriff Joe Arpaio held a press conference Monday afternoon to announce some big changes in the way he enforces immigration laws," Fox TV reported. "Arpaio says that every MCSO deputy will receive training to find and detain illegal immigrants, and be taught to avoid racial profiling . . . MCSO has hired a professor of immigration law, Kris Kobach, to lead the training. He says that deputies have the inherent authority to detain suspected illegal immigrants."
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ABA Endorses Full Employment for Immigration Attorneys
The American Bar Association is calling for the establisment of a new immigration court system, which would be a full employment act for immigration attorneys. Immigration judges (who are unionized) are currently administrative hearing officers in the Dept. of Justice. "In the proposal adopted Monday, the bar association argued that immigration courts should be removed from the Department of Justice and set up as independent courts, still within the executive branch, under terms in Article I of the Constitution," the New York Times reports. The ABA issued a report saying that due to more immigration enforcement, a better court system would speed the process.
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