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Barbara Hines in 2015. Barbara Hines is an American immigration rights attorney. She is the founder of the University of Texas Law School immigration clinic. [1] Hines is recognized for her defense of the rights of immigrants, coming to national attention for her work in winning the release of families detained in the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas in 2008.
Headquartered in Texas and with national reach, RAICES, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formally known as the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, promotes migrant justice by providing legal services, social services case management, and rights advocacy for immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families.
The State Bar of Texas is composed of those persons licensed to practice law in Texas and is an "integrated" or "mandatory" bar. The State Bar Act, adopted by the Legislature in 1939, mandates that all attorneys licensed to practice law in Texas be members of the State Bar. [4] [5] As of 2018, membership in the Texas Bar stood at 103,342. [6]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce for now a contentious new law that gives local police the power to arrest migrants.. The conservative-majority court, with ...
Mendoza-Martinez, 372 U.S. 144 (1963) – the Court struck down a law revoking citizenship for remaining outside the United States in order to avoid conscription into the armed forces Rosenberg v. Fleuti , 374 U.S. 449 (1963)
American Immigration Lawyers Association offices at 1331 G Street, NW in Washington, D.C. Originally called the Association of Immigration and Nationality Lawyers, the association was founded on October 14, 1946 by a group of 19 immigration lawyers and professionals in Manhattan, New York . [ 4 ]
Title X is a federally funded program created in 1970 that provides family planning and preventative health services, including free contraception to anyone, despite their age, income or ...
In 1990, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 ("IMMACT"), P.L. 101–649, Congress established a procedure by which the Attorney General may provide temporary protected status to immigrants in the United States who are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing armed conflict, an environmental disaster, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions.