Seattle Times Editorial: Benjamin Nuñez-Marquez’ deportation highlights need for immigration reform

http://seattletimes.com/html/editorials/2023376125_immigrationreformbenjaminnunezmarquezedit15xml.html BENJAMIN Nuñez-Marquez’s deportation, scheduled for April 29, underscores the urgent need for Congress to overhaul the nation’s immigration system. An operator at a sawmill on Orcas Island immigrated to the U.S. illegally, but he has proved himself an irreplaceable worker and trusted neighbor. Hundreds of local residents and at least four Democratic members of…

Federal Court Rules Immigrant Detainees Must Be Given Bond Hearings

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2014 Contact: Matt Adams, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, 206-957-8611, matt@nwirp.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU, 212-549-2666; media@aclu.org SEATTLE – A federal court ruled late yesterday that a class of immigrants detained at the Tacoma-based Northwest Detention Center must be given bond hearings. The court’s decision comes at the same time that hundreds of immigrant…

Detained immigrants must have bond hearings, judge rules

The Seattle Times http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/03/detained-immigrants-must-have-bond-hearings-judge-rules/ A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. government cannot keep certain immigrants locked up at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma without granting them a bond hearing. The Department of Homeland Security routinely detain immigrants it apprehends for months, sometimes years –in one case a decade — after those people…

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