Indy woman gets 10 years for bilking immigrants
Prosecutors alleged she stole more than $274,000 from about 170 immigrants who thought they were giving her down payments for green cards or other immigration documents.
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High court partly reinstates Trump travel ban, sets fall arguments
The Supreme Court is letting a limited version of the Trump administration ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries to take effect, a victory for President Donald Trump in the biggest legal controversy of his young presidency.
Daniels calls Trump’s immigration order ‘bad idea,’ urges him to revoke it
The Purdue University president said in a written statement that "if the idea is to strengthen the protection of Americans against terrorism, there are many far better ways to achieve it.”
After Trump victory, groups that felt under threat see surge in support
Immigration groups, Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups say contributions are up—and so are people who want to donate their time.
Indiana’s high court hears Mexican man’s lost-wages case
Noe Escamilla sued Indianapolis-based construction company Shiel Sexton for lost future wages after he slipped on ice in 2010 and severely injured his back while helping lift a heavy masonry capstone. The company said the man used fraud to land the job.
Study committee takes look at Indiana immigration laws
An Indiana Senate study committee on Tuesday started its six-month-long look into the impact of costs and benefits of immigration to the state.
UPDATE: Federal judge blocks Pence order on Syrian refugees
The decision requires state officials to resume full grant payments to a not-for-profit group that helps settle refugees. But state officials say they will seek a stay of the order while they appeal the decision.
Pence: Indiana won’t accept Syrian refugees
Gov. Mike Pence's move, announced in the wake of Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris, won applause from fellow Indiana Republicans, but criticism from a legal scholar who said he might be overstepping his authority.
Indiana part of 17-state coalition suing over immigration order
Texas is leading a 17-state coalition that includes Indiana in suing over the Obama administration's recently announced executive actions on immigration.
Employer-friendly improvements in immigration law
Although comprehensive immigration reform with bipartisan support might not be passed into law soon, the recent executive action by the Obama administration has some employer-friendly improvements in immigration law.
Pence’s stances increasingly show his social conservatism
Pence opened last week by calling his decision to drop a food-stamp waiver "ennobling" for the poor and capped it with a call for legal action to block Obama's immigration changes.
Pence: State may sue to block Obama’s immigration policies
Indiana's governor called Obama's plan to impose new policies on his own “an unacceptable end run around the democratic process” that “must be reversed.”
Pence wants immigrant children returned to home countries
Pence said Tuesday he did not learn about the placement of more than 200 immigrant children with Indiana families until reading about it in news reports. Thousands of unaccompanied children have migrated to the U.S. illegally this year.
Bill OK’d that grants Indiana tuition to some immigrants
Supporters say the change would help a couple of hundred students who had the rules changed on them after they had already started work on their college degrees.
Lower tuition OK’d for some illegal immigrants
Persons who entered the country illegally and were attending Indiana public colleges when a state immigration law passed two years ago would again be eligible for in-state tuition rates under a bill approved by the Indiana House.
Judge: Indiana senators can’t defend immigration law
A federal judge has rebuffed three Indiana lawmakers who asked to be allowed to step into a legal dispute over the state's immigration law after the attorney general declined to defend it.
Norquist to headline immigration forum in Indianapolis
The National Immigration Forum is organizing the daylong event. It will include Midwestern business, civic and religious leaders discussing possibilities for immigration reform.
Indiana sends Congress tab for illegal immigration
Indiana's budget director calculates illegal immigrants have cost Indiana $130.9 million.
High Court reacts skeptically to immigration-law challenge
Supreme Court justices strongly suggested Wednesday that they are ready to allow Arizona to enforce part of a controversial state law requiring police officers to check the immigration status of people they think are in the country illegally.
Delay asked in suit against Indiana immigration law
Attorney General Greg Zoeller wants to delay two lawsuits challenging Indiana's tough new immigration law because the U.S. Supreme Court is taking up the issue in an Arizona case.