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Oct 4, 2011Editor's note: Rodolfo Estrada is a former senior program associate for Vera's Center on Immigration and Justice. He is the author of the new Vera brief How Law Enforcement Is Using the U-Visa and is currently executive director of the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights. In recent y... More
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Jul 18, 2011Immigrants who are victims of crime and cooperate with police may be eligible for a U-visa, which grants them temporary legal status in the United States. Although many law enforcement agencies recognize the U-visa as a valuable policing and crime-fighting tool, most police and sheriffs’ depar... More
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Jan 14, 2011The January newsletter of the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (the COPS Office) features an article about the U-visa written by Sergeant Inspector Tony Flores of the San Francisco Police Department and Rodolfo Estrada, senior program associate at Vera&rsq... More
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Dec 6, 2010In collaboration with the nonprofit organization Legal Momentum, Vera has begun training law enforcement personnel throughout the United States on use of the U-visa. Together, our National Immigrant Victims’ Access to Justice Partnership offers technical assistance to police agencies so that t... More
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Jun 11, 2010Arizona’s controversial new law, SB 1070, will allow police officers (and other state officials and agencies) to check the legal status of any individual who has contact with law enforcement and is reasonably suspected of being in the country illegally. The consequences for individuals without... More
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Jun 10, 2010In Wednesday’s New York Times, Jim Dwyer decries the “fiscal mess” that is a product of the prison economy of much of upstate New York. The Tryon boys’ residential center—cited by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2009 for abuse and neglect—currently houses ... More
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Jun 30, 2009Storm Lake, a city of about 10,000 people midway between Des Moines and Omaha, Nebraska, has the distinction of being the most diverse city in Iowa. This is largely the result of demographic changes experienced over the past 20 years. In the early 1990s, Laotian refugees resettled in the city and, l... More
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