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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]
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]
20 Jul 2020, 2:17 pm by Kalvis Golde
The panel will feature Jonathan Adler of Case Western Law, Fatima Goss Graves of the National Women’s Law Center, Omar Jadwat of the American Civil Liberties Union, Victoria Nourse of Georgetown Law and Micah Schwartzman of University of Virginia Law. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 12:28 pm by Ilya Somin
In reality, plaintiffs’ attorney Omar Jadwat merely said that “in that case it could be constitutional” (emphasis added). [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]
9 May 2017, 6:30 am
In a room of rich green carpet, great hanging chandeliers, and dark wood, the Fourth Circuit prepared to listen to a lawyer from the government argue the ACLU’s Omar Jadwat about the Muslim ban. [read post]
9 May 2017, 4:59 am by Jane Chong
Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall argued for the government; Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, argued for appellees, individuals allegedly harmed by the executive order as well as organizations whose clients and members are allegedly harmed by the executive order. [read post]
8 May 2017, 6:59 pm by Amy Howe
And the two sides were, as Judge Robert King told Omar Jadwat, who argued on behalf of the challengers, “like ships in the night. [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]
8 May 2017, 5:27 pm by Lyle Denniston
Wall was on the defensive for much of the time, but then, the second hour put the other lawyer – Omar C. [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]
9 Nov 2018, 11:52 am by Patrick Eckerd
Omar Jadwat, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrant Rights Project, stated that “The law is clear: People can apply for asylum whether or not they’re at a port of entry, and regardless of their immigration status” and that “The president doesn’t get to ignore that law, even if he dislikes it. [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]
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]
17 May 2010, 6:47 pm by Jeralyn
"Arizona's law is quintessentially un-American: we are not a 'show me your papers' country, nor one that believes in subjecting people to harassment, investigation and arrest simply because others may perceive them as foreign," said Omar Jadwat, a staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. [read post]
17 Apr 2019, 8:11 am by Austin Koltonowski
Omar Jadwat, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Rights Project, tweeted,”unless stopped, this decision will result in the unlawful jailing of thousands of people who should not be behind bars. [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 8:21 am by Michael H. Neifach
Omar Jadwat of the ACLU, which represents some of those challenging the ban, stated: “It’s unfortunate that the full ban can move forward for now, but this order does not address the merits of our claims. . . . [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]