Law school’s immigration clinics continue to help clients through US system

August 17, 2018 Leave a comment

In this Aug. 9, photo, provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, mothers and their children stand in line at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. With new information seemingly every day about the Trump administration’s immigration policies, the immigration law clinics at Maryland’s two law schools have been busy. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

Business at the immigration clinics at Maryland’s two law schools has been brisk.

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Letter to the editor: 100 percent against Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance policy’

July 12, 2018 Leave a comment

In this June 21, 2018, photo, migrant children walk off a bus at the Catholic Charities' Msgr. Bryan Walsh Children's Village in Cutler Bay, Fla. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Monday, June 25, that children who range in age from newborns to 5 years old are being sheltered at this facility and His House Children's Home in Miami Gardens. (Photo/Brynn Anderson)

As an organization whose purpose is to provide a voice to legal issues affecting the Hispanic community, the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association will not stand silent while families are being torn apart.

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Filmmaker re-enacts pro se children in immigration court

July 9, 2018 Leave a comment

Welcome to Monday, the 52nd anniversary of golf great Jack Nicklaus‘ completion of the career grand slam with his British Open victory at Muirfield in Gullane, Scotland. Here are some news items to get your week started. — See for ...

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17 states sue Trump administration over family separations

June 27, 2018 Leave a comment

Seventeen states, including Maryland, New York and California, sued President Donald Trump's administration Tuesday in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families who have been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Md. joins lawsuit against Trump administration over family separations

June 26, 2018 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Trump is nominating white men to America’s federal courts at a rate not seen in nearly 30 years, according to an AP analysis of his nominees. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Maryland joining other states in suit over family separations

June 22, 2018 Leave a comment

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project Executive Director Jorge Baron, center, speaks as Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, left, and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, look on at a news conference announcing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a policy of separating immigrant families illegally entering the United States, in front of the Federal Detention Center Thursday, June 21, 2018, in SeaTac, Wash. Ferguson made the announcement outside the federal prison south of Seattle, where about 200 immigration detainees have been transferred — including dozens of women separated from their children under the administration's "zero tolerance" policy. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

SEATAC, Wash. — Washington, California and at least nine other states are planning to sue the Trump administration over its separation of immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the president’s executive order halting the practice is riddled with caveats ...

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Judge appears skeptical of Trump suit against California

June 21, 2018 Leave a comment

More than 100 protestors demonstrated outside the federal courthouse where a federal judge will hear arguments over the U.S. Justice Department's request to block three California laws that extend protections to people in the country illegally, Wednesday, June 20, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

A U.S. judge appeared skeptical of some of the Trump administration's key arguments for seeking to block three California laws intended to protect immigrants, questioning the scope of federal power over immigration during a lengthy court hearing on Wednesday.

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Maryland OKs $375K in seafood marketing amid labor crisis

June 21, 2018 Leave a comment

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The Maryland Board of Public Works has granted $375,000 to a state seafood marketing campaign to help promote its labor-short crab industry.

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Proud to become a lawyer; proud to be a Marylander, and an American

June 20, 2018 Leave a comment

When I told acquaintances I was headed to law school, a fair percentage responded with a joke about how there are already enough lawyers.

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In reversal, Trump signs order stopping family separation