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Immigration

Jul. 29, 2009

Raining on ICE Raids

A factory raid in Van Nuys brought to light some of the systemic abuses in our immigration system, writes Pamela Hartman.

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By Pamela Hartman

It's quite rare to see an attorney in immigration court challenge the admissibility of evidence or the underlying constitutionality of an immigrant's arrest. But all that changed last year following a highly publicized raid of a Van Nuys cartridge factory.

After the February 2008 raid on Micro Solutions Enterprises, advocacy groups and the private immigration bar combined efforts to represent dozens of immigr...

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