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Did Justice Department Lawyers Lie to the Supreme Court?

Matthew Kolken Region: United States

The Wall Street Journal reports that a District Court Judge has called out the Justice Department for allegedly making "misleading statements" to influence the Supreme Court in an immigration ... more

Views: 787
 

Latinos Disproportionately Targeted for Deportation by the Obama Administration

Matthew Kolken Region: United States

The Cal Berkeley Institute on Law and Social Policy has just released a report entitled: "Secure communities by the number: An Analysis of Demographics and Due Process."  The report was written by Aarti... more

Views: 934
 

Obama administration denies immigration benefits to a married gay couple from San Francisco

Matthew Kolken Region: United States

 The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that the Obama administration is enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act by denying immigration benefits to a same sex couple married seven years ago in Massachusetts.... more

Views: 1470
 

Attorney General Stops Deportation of Gay Partner in Same-Sex Civil Union

Matthew Kolken Region: United States

  Today, Attorney General Eric Holder has vacated a deportation order of an individual that is in a same-sex civil union with a United States citizen.  General Holder has specifically ordered the case to&... more

Views: 2514
 

Obama's Meeting on Immigration Reveals He Has no Real Intention to Address Immigration Reform

Matthew Kolken Region: United States

 Obama gathered a bunch of people together yesterday to talk about immigration.  Among the invitees was the person who oversaw the deportation of more immigrants over a two-year span than at any other time in the... more

Views: 2580
Tags: Immigration
 

Obama Targeting Undocumented Students for Deportation

Matthew Kolken Region: United States

 The Houston Chronicle has reported that the Obama administration is targeting undocumented DREAM Act eligible students for deportation confirming what many of us in the trenches of the immigration war have ... more

Views: 1953
 

And from President Obama's other face, another honor student faces deportation

Matthew Kolken Region: United States

 I just read on Prerna Lal's blog that another DREAMer is falling victim to President Obama's 400,000 per year deportation machine. Jonathan Chavez came to the United States legally when he was a ... more

Views: 1943
 

Obama Administration "cooking the books" to calculate Record Deportation Number

Matthew Kolken Region: United States

What do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news? Here's the good news: the Obama administration may not have broken its own deportation record last fiscal year.  The bad news is that 392,862 people w... more

Views: 2382
 

Two More Immigrants Die in Immigration Detention

Matthew Kolken Region: United States

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a pair of press releases announcing the deaths of two immigrants in immigration detention. The first individual, Antonio Gomez-Hernandez, was a 66-year-old Mexican n... more

Views: 1782
Tags: Ice
 

Number of Detained Grow, as Immigrants in Nevada wait 11 months in Deportation Cases

Matthew Kolken Region: United States

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has reported that in 2010 there has been an 80% increase in the backlog of cases at the Las Vegas Immigration Court.   In President Bush's last year in office (2008) there were 1,0... more

Views: 1216

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Name: Matthew Kolken
Member Since: March 2010
Location: NY
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# of Articles: 33

Website: www.kolkenlaw.com

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