July 30, 2012, 12:05 AM
Enrique Candia lives a quiet life. When he's not working, he takes care of his ailing wife and his three grandkids and makes sure his son is on track to finish college. Although he has no criminal record, the 56-year-old is facing a court battle that could take him away from his family for...
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June 28, 2012, 12:05 AM
California’s clogged immigration courts are likely to receive relief under an Obama administration plan to avoid deporting young illegal immigrants brought into the country as children. The court in Los Angeles has a backlog of nearly 52,000 deportation cases, the nation’s...
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June 22, 2012, 12:05 AM
The San Ysidro port of entry – which separates Tijuana, Mexico, from San Diego County – is the busiest land border crossing in the world, with more than 30 million people crossing into the country from Mexico last year alone, according to government statistics. U.S. Immigration and...
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February 10, 2012, 12:05 AM
In an unusual twist, a federal appellate court this week pressed the Obama administration on whether the government will follow its own highly publicized policy of using discretion when reviewing deportation cases. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling Monday involving five...
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December 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
The number of people facing deportation because of criminal charges has declined steadily the past three fiscal years, according to data released by the U.S. Justice Department. Instead, in California and beyond, a growing number are accused only of entering the United States without...
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November 13, 2011, 12:05 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – When longtime Los Angeles resident Wilberle Vereus arrived in Haiti after being deported from the United States, he was taken to the Petionville jail above Port-au-Prince and placed in a 20-by-10-foot cell along with three other deportees and a group of Haitian...
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October 26, 2011, 12:05 AM
Federal courts in California have been more likely to allow immigrants to remain in the United States in recent years, despite a widespread perception that federal officials are cracking down and sending more people back to their native countries. During the first two years of the Obama...
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