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Federal appeals court rejects challenge to ‘Sanctuary Cities’ law
In a get for Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers, a federal appeals court Thursday tossed out a challenge to a 2019 immigration law that banned so-named sanctuary metropolitan areas in Florida. A a few-decide panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals overturned a ruling by a South Florida district decide that blocked pieces of the controversial law. The appeals courtroom also purchased the dismissal of the lawsuit for the reason that it claimed plaintiffs did not have lawful standing to problem the regulation. A number of teams, such as the Florida Immigrant Coalition and the Farmworker Affiliation of Florida, filed the lawsuit in July 2019, raising constitutional…
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City of Cottage Grove, police, violate Oregon’s sanctuary law, lawsuit claims
The city of Cottage Grove and its police section have utilized general public resources to enable with federal immigration enforcement, in violation of Oregon legislation, according to a lawsuit submitted Tuesday in Lane County Circuit Court docket. The lawsuit, filed by the Rural Organizing Task, states the town and law enforcement have “adopted policies” that “instruct officers to interact in routines that constitute immigration enforcement and to use public sources to help and aid federal agencies in their immigration enforcement routines.” The lawsuit seeks a court injunction to stop the town and its law enforcement from “unlawfully making use of community resources to engage or assist in the enforcement of…
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