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AZ to release immigration training plan for cops
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2010/07/01 09:21
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pArizona officials plan to release a training program Thursday designed to teach police officers to enforce a tough new crackdown on illegal immigration without racially profiling./ppAn hour-long video and supporting paperwork will be sent to all 170 Arizona police agencies and publicly released Thursday morning./ppOfficials released an outline for the video in May./ppIt will emphasize the importance of professionalism, ethics and integrity, as well as an officer's duty to protect civil rights, according to the outline./ppRetired immigration agents also will describe how federal officers are trained to avoid racial profiling and the documents that immigrants are required to carry./ppAnd officers will be taught how to contact federal immigration authorities or local officers certified by the federal government to determine someone's immigration status./ppGov. Jan Brewer ordered the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board to develop the training when she signed the law April 23./ppPolice bosses will decide the best way to teach their forces. But there is no requirement that all 15,000 Arizona police officers complete the training before the law takes effect July 29./ppOpponents have challenged the measure as unconstitutional and have asked that a federal court block it from taking effect. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton plans to hear arguments on the request later this month./ppArizona's law generally requires police officers enforcing another law to question a person's immigration status if there's a reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally.
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Obama plans fourth tour of Gulf oil spill
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2010/06/14 05:58
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| pStruggling to show leadership in a crisis, President Barack Obama is embarking on a three-state tour of Gulf Coast states tainted by oil before speaking to the nation about the country's worst environmental disaster and what to expect in the weeks ahead./ppBefore the start Monday of a two-day trip to Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, the White House announced Obama would order BP to establish a major victims' compensation fund. When he returns to Washington on Tuesday evening Obama will use his first Oval Office speech as president to address the catastrophe./ppBP said in a statement that its costs for responding to the spill had risen to $1.6 billion, including new $25 million grants to Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. It also includes the first $60 million for a project to build barrier islands off the Louisiana coast. The estimate does not include future costs for scores of damage lawsuits already filed./ppObama's first three trips to the Gulf took him to the hardest-hit state, Louisiana. On Monday, Day 56 since BP's leased Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and unleashed a fury of oil into the Gulf, he's flying to Gulfport, Miss. From there he'll travel along the coast to Alabama, where oil was washing up in heavy amounts along the shores Sunday in the eastern part of the state./p |
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IMMIGRATION DEPORTATION DEFENSE
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2010/05/29 17:21
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a href=http://www.sandiego-immigrationlawyer.comspan style=color: #010943span style=font-size: 16ptspan style=font-family: times new roman, timesstrongSAN DIEGO IMMIGRATION LAW FIRM/strong/span/span/span
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If you are not a U.S. citizen, you may be ordered to appear in Immigration Court for deportation proceedings (also known as removal proceedings) if you have:nbsp;
ullioverstayed your visa/lilibeen deemed “inadmissible” by the USCIS/lilibeen convicted of a crime/lilientered the U.S. illegally /li/ulIt is not unusual for persons (unaided by an attorney) to submit an application for permanent residence or naturalization or renewal of a green card, only to find them selves ordered to appear in Immigration Court for deportation proceedings. nbsp;
If you are placed in deportation proceedings (removal proceedings) the U.S. government (specifically the Department of Homeland Security) will serve you with a Notice to Appear or “NTA”.nbsp; If you are issued a Notice to Appear, even if you believe it to be a mistake, you can not ignore it.nbsp; Only an experienced immigration attorney will know what relief you have available to you.
a href=http://www.sandiego-immigrationlawyer.com/practice-areas/deportation-defenseImmigration Court/a trials are different than criminal trials in the United States.nbsp; In Immigration Court you have the right to be represented by an attorney.nbsp; However, the government is not obligated to provide you one, and in most cases will not.nbsp; So you must hire your own attorney if you are placed in deportation proceedings. nbsp;
In your deportation proceedings, the government’s attorney (known as the “Trial Attorney”) will present a case against you seeking to have you deported.nbsp; In that case, the government’s attorney must identify the legal grounds for your deportation and then prove all the facts that they allege in the NTA in order to have you deported. nbsp;nbsp; nbsp;
An Immigration Judge will preside over your case and has the authority to act not only as Judge but as prosecutor in your case (although this rarely happens these days).nbsp; Once you are placed in deportation proceedings, only the Immigration Judge can decide whether or not you will be deported. nbsp; |
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Record £105m legal cost claim in toxic waste case
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2010/05/10 02:09
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pThe London-based law firm which pursued the action against oil trading giant Trafigura over the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast has claimed a record £105 million in costs./ppThe unprecedented figure, which Leigh Day amp; Co confirmed was correct, dwarfed the only known comparator - the BCCI litigation, Trafigura's QC Sean Wilken told the High Court. By contrast, he added, Trafigura's costs stood at £14 million./ppMr Wilken told Mr Justice MacDuff, who formally approved the confidential settlement of the largest ever group action last September, that if every claimant had been paid in full, that would amount to about £3 in costs for every £1 recovered. But he said that up to Easter, cheques had been cashed by 12,250 claimants - 41% of the total - and the process had stalled since the middle of March. He added that Leigh Day accepted that the costs were high./ppMr Wilken said: In fact, we would say they are staggeringly high. I am told that this is one of the largest, if not the largest, costs claims in legal history./ppSo we say this court is faced with groundbreaking claims of English lawyers in circumstances where the Ivorian claimants have not been paid in full the compensation which was supposedly the rationale of this litigation. Bluntly, we would like to know what happened to the money we paid to settle these claims./ppIt was later agreed between the two sides that issues raised should be dealt with by the senior High Court official who will assess costs at a further hearing at the end of this year.
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