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7 May 2017, 4:30 pm
., Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, did not expect that the administration would be so eager to implement it that officials would detain and attempt to deport people who had been in the air, heading to the United States, when it was signed. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 3:06 am by NCC Staff
Instead, President Trump has recommitted himself to religious discrimination, and he can expect continued disapproval from both the courts and the people,” said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 3:43 am by Scott Bomboy
Unfortunately, it has replaced it with a scaled-back version that shares the same fatal flaws,” said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 8:45 am
This ban cannot be allowed to continue,” said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 7:10 am by Ashli Braggs
On the contrary, Omar Jadwat, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney explained that the judges struck down the law pretty forcefully and were opposed to the idea of self-deportation by making the lives of undocumented immigrants very difficult. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 8:18 am by Rekha Arulanantham
“The court today rejected many parts of Alabama and Georgia’s anti-immigrant laws, including attempts to criminalize everyday interactions with undocumented immigrants and Alabama’s callous attempt to deprive some children of their constitutional right to education,” said Omar Jadwat, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 6:19 am by Joshua Matz
  At ACSblog, Omar Jadwat lists “three things you should know” about the oral argument; Andrew Cohen ups the ante by offering “five takeaways” in The Atlantic; Michael Dorf of Dorf on Law takes the road less traveled and provides “a few offbeat observations” (three of them, since we’re counting). [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 12:55 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
By Omar Jadwat, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project I was at Wednesday’s Supreme Court argument in Arizona v. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 5:45 pm by Suzanne Ito
The three-hour hearing started with arguments in the Georgia case, where ACLU’s Omar Jadwat discussed how under the law, something as ordinary as a traffic stop would turn police officers into enforcers of federal immigration law. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 9:14 am by Suzanne Ito
Thursday, March 1 Immigrants' Rights: Cecillia Wang and Omar Jadwat of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project will argue before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta challenging the constitutionality of Alabama and Georgia's anti-immigrant laws. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 12:03 pm by Steve Gosset, ACLU
"We are particularly relieved that the court has blocked the provision of the law that has had a devastating effect on children's access to schools, along with the documentation provision that has led to unjustifiable arrests and detention," said Omar Jadwat, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 1:27 pm by Nathan Koppel
Omar Jadwat, an attorney with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, which has also challenged the Alabama law in court, called today’s ruling a mixed bag. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 6:45 am by Nathan Koppel
“The judge recognized the serious flaws in the law in his decision,” Omar Jadwat, staff counsel for the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, told the AJC. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 4:09 am
But Omar Jadwa, a staff with the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, called the law "fundamentally un-American. [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 11:13 am by Anna Christensen
Shapiro, Omar Jadwat, Daniel Mach, and Lee Gelernt. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 8:13 am by Anna Christensen
Shapiro, Omar Jadwat, Daniel Mach, and Lee Gelernt. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 11:03 am by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
In a statement today, Omar Jadwat, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project staff attorney and one of the attorneys who argued the case, called the decision "a major defeat for the misguided, divisive and expensive anti-immigrant strategy that Hazleton has tried to export to the rest of the country. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 7:54 am by Annie Lai, ACLU of Arizona
  Next, at Judge Bolton’s urging, Omar Jadwat from the ACLU described the constitutional problems with the law provision-by-provision. [read post]