Arizona’s Experiment In Large-Scale Profiling

April 26, 2010

Arizona recently passed a law that practically orders the state’s law enforcement officers to engage in racial profiling. The bill, which was signed into law on Friday by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, would make simply being in the United States illegally a misdemeanor. Police officers in Arizona who have a “reasonable suspicion” that someone is in the country illegally will be required to investigate that person’s status. Those who lack …

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Immigration Madness

April 7, 2010

A court’s role is to apply the law, not to set policy. But in the Kafkaesque nightmare that America’s immigration system has become, judges are the only ones who can prevent the system from descending into frighteningly random chaos. Case in point: The U.S. Supreme Court last week heard arguments about whether two misdemeanor drug convictions are legally the same as an aggravated felony conviction, and therefore enough to get …

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Granting Asylum From An Ally

March 12, 2010

Like many before them, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike uprooted their family and moved to the United States, seeking asylum and the freedom to practice their beliefs. But the Romeikes’ situation is unique. They did not come from a country ruled by a repressive, dictatorial regime, but from a modern Western democracy. The German couple appealed to the United States after they faced what a Memphis, Tenn. judge deemed to be …

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