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    Immigration

    Immigration

    Pritzker signs bill allowing Cook County public defender’s office to handle deportation cases

    By Carlos Ballesteros | August 23, 2021

    But a lack of funding and personnel could drastically limit how many immigrants the county can represent.

    Collateral Consequences
    A mother and three of her children look away from the camera

    Left behind: How deportation affects a Chicago mother and her 6 kids

    By Rita Oceguera | April 27, 2021

    A Chicago mother explains how her husband’s 15-year-old conviction led to three deportations and a family torn apart.

    Immigration

    Do you know someone who has been deported after a criminal conviction?

    By Rita Oceguera | March 9, 2021

    Injustice Watch and Borderless Magazine need your help to investigate the consequences noncitizens face after a criminal conviction.

    Staff news

    Meet the reporters: A Q&A with new Injustice Watch staff Josh McGhee and Rita Oceguera

    By Injustice Watch Staff | February 4, 2021

    In an interview with Editor-in-Chief Adeshina Emmanuel, Josh and Rita discussed what issues they’re covering, and how they’re making sense of 2020.

    News

    Nueva ley interrumpiría proceso de deportación en las cárceles

    By Carlos Ballesteros | February 1, 2021

    Un grupo de congresistas demócratas, liderado por el representante de Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, está renovando el impulso de una amplia legislación que desmantelaría muchos segmentos del llamado conducto de la prisión, a la deportación.

    Immigration

    The New Way Forward Act could disrupt the prison-to-deportation pipeline

    By Carlos Ballesteros | January 27, 2021

    Chicago Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is leading a push to reverse decades of punitive policies that land thousands of immigrants in detention each year after coming into contact with the criminal justice system.

    #SpreadTheWord

    China cabinets

    By Glory Blankenship | October 1, 2020

    Grief was a China Cabinet
    And in her neighborhood
    Everybody ate off plastic
    Because it was safer for the children

    Immigration

    Southwest Side construction worker quickly deported to Mexico while awaiting DACA decision

    By Carlos Ballesteros | July 3, 2020

    With the Trump administration seeking to kill the Obama-era program for immigrants, Jesus Alberto ‘Beto’ Lopez Gutierrez, 25, was deported after suing ICE.

    News

    Trump administration threatens anew cities, counties over policing immigration

    By Jeanne Kuang | January 24, 2018

    Frustrated by a U.S. District Judge’s blanket order halting federal efforts to punish cities, counties that do not cooperate on immigration policing, the Trump administration has launched a new effort. Cook County, Chicago are among the jurisdictions that could fact cutbacks in funding for law enforcement.

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    Este artículo, publicado originalmente en inglés por Injustice Watch, está disponible en español gracias al proyecto "Traduciendo las noticias de Chicago", del Instituto de Noticias Sin Fines de Lucro (INN). Read in English.

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    We, the Injustice Watch staff, feel pain and anger, like so many in our community, over the police killing of George Floyd and the systemic racism his death represents. The list of Black people whose lives have been cut short by police brutality is excruciatingly long.

    2020 Judicial Primary Election Guide
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    13 states have never exonerated a prisoner based on DNA evidence. Here’s why.

    Hundreds of state prisoners have successfully used DNA evidence to win exonerations in the past three decades — except in 13 states. The states are Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Vermont.

    Cook County judicial candidate, colleague misled jury into wrongful conviction

    This is the first of a series of Injustice Watch reports on candidates and campaigning for the Cook County Circuit Court 2018 elections.  Longtime Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Gerber achieved his lifelong dream in December 2016 when the state Supreme Court appointed him to the Cook County Circuit Court, filling a vacancy. But as he now runs to win a full six-year term, Gerber faces a potential obstacle: Another Cook County judge has ruled that Gerber and a second prosecutor made false statements to a jury that led to a wrongful conviction.

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