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The Next Steps For Immigration Reform Remain Unclear
As Republicans prepare to take control of Congress in the new year, both political activists and conservative commentators are concerned about what will happ...
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Church fights deportation of mother in DC / Equality, Executive Orders, Immigration Reform
Church fights deportation of mother in DC Rev. Alison Harrington from Tucson #39;s Southside Presbyterian Church talks about her effort to lift the deportation order for a woman her church his...
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Officials inaugurated the nation's largest immigration detention facility Monday amid a renewed push from President Barack Obama to secure the border. The 50-acre detention center being constructed in Texas will house up to 2,400 illegal immigrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border
Jeh Johnson, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, used the opening of the center in Dilley, 85 miles northeast of Laredo, to highlight the Obama administration's border security plan less than a month after Obama promised to make it easier for up to 5 million illegal immigrants to obtain temporary work and resident visas. It will be by far the largest detention center for migrant families in the nation, with the current largest featuring only about 100 beds.
It will now be more likely that you will be detained and sent back, Johnson said during his speech.This must be clear. Our borders are not open to illegal migration.
The Texas detention center is designed to house migrant women and their children as their deportation cases are processed in the U.S. court system, according to the New York Times.It includes a library, classrooms and a playground with a slide and bench.The $290 million detention center was formerly the site of a man camp for oil workers, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
Texas is leading a lawsuit from more than 20 states suing to stop the federal government from allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. under Obama's policy. At the same time, immigration proponents argue that the nation should not detain immigrants for months as their cases are processed in court. There are no conditions that could make the mass incarceration of families right, Stephen Manning, an immigration lawyer, told the New York Times.
Johnson also slammed Congress Monday for not funding border security through the fiscal year. The $1.1 trillion federal spending bill passed by lawmakers last week only funds the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 27 in protest of Obama's immigration policy.
Congress has failed to act on this departments request for supplemental funding for fiscal years 2014 and 2015, to pay for our surge in resources to the southern border in response to last summers spike in illegal migration there, Johnson said. We need to pay the bill for that surge, and keep those resources in place for the future.
Obama unveiledlast month his executive plan to move forward and reform the nation's immigration laws without Congress' approval. The plan will benefit the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants who've lived in the country for at least five years.
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Police repression / First Amendment Violations in Buffalo, NY
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by Maurice Bobb 4 hours ago
The adult entertainment industry has been arguing against a law that would require porn actors to wear condoms, but they suffered another setback when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles rejected their First Amendment argument on Monday (Dec. 15).
Simply put, the adult entertainment industrys position revolves around the idea that condomless sex is part of their right to free speech. Vivid Entertainment and the other plaintiffs in the suit were seeking relief from the 2012 law (Measure B), which was voter-initiated, in response to the widespread transmission of sexually transmitted diseases among porn industry workers.
While the entertainment industry is indeed content-based though, the 9th Circuit ruled that speech that is sexual or pornographic in nature earns an exception to free speech when the primary motivation behind the regulation is to prevent secondary effects like STDs, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Vivid also argued that condomless sex onscreen is essential because it projects a particular fantasy for viewers, one where sex doesnt have real-life consequences like disease or pregnancy.
But ninth Circuit Judge Susan Graber saw the safe-sex precaution a different way, and explained in part in the ruling:
To determine whether conduct is protected by the First Amendment, we ask not only whether someone intended to convey a particular message through that conduct, but also whether there is a great likelihood that the message would be understood by those who viewed it. Here, we agree with the district court that, whatever unique message Plaintiffs might intend to convey by depicting condomless sex, it is unlikely that viewers of adult films will understand that message. So condomless sex is not the relevant expression for First Amendment purposes; instead, the relevant expression is more generally the adult films erotic message.
The federal courts decision means that the law requiring porn actors wear condoms during their onscreen expressions doesnt conflict with their First Amendment rights.
Outside of the legal ramifications of the ruling and the effect it will have on the porn industrys fanbase, the question we have to admit to wondering about is: Did the justices have to actually watch porn to rule on this matter?
What do you think? Should condomless sex be protected under the First Amendment?
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