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To read the press of late, you might think that every undocumented immigrant in the country regularly checks into an office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The news aspect of this is that such check-ins are increasingly leading to the person’s deportation (removal) from the United States. Anyone following the news reports has probably seen statements like these: “In cities like New York and Baltimore, fear of ICE check-ins—which once felt customary for non-violent undocumented immigrants—are now causing waves…

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Remember the old “shooting fish in a barrel” simile, connoting “ridiculously easy” according to the dictionary? It apparently dates from the 1940s, presenting the idea that while free-swimming fish have a fair shot at survival, ones that you’ve captured in a barrel are, to mix metaphors, sitting ducks. None other than Mythbusters found that “you don’t even have to be a good shot to take out a barrel of fish with a single bullet.” The phrase also carries a suggestion that,…

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A federal judge’s February 3 ruling in Seattle, Washington, responding to an emergency motion brought by Washington State, issued a Temporary Restraining Order invalidating key parts of President Trump’s executive order entitled “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Entry into the United States by Foreign Nationals.” The judge’s order applies nationwide and is still in effect as of February 15, due to followup action by the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. How much of Trump’s order is actually undone by…

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