Kathleen Bush-Joseph

Non-Attorneys Eyed To Tackle Civil Justice Gap In GA Pilot "A Georgia Supreme Court committee has proposed the state start a pilot program to train non-attorneys to handle some legal tasks in evictions and other housing cases and consumer-debt matters" law360.com/transportation…

"Funding 'Crisis' Jeopardizes Indigent Defense, Judiciary Says funding has been exhausted for the private attorneys who represent indigent federal criminal defendants, and this predicament is expected to last for three months" law360.com/access-to-just…

Pasadena, California City Council voted Monday to allocate $100,000 to create a fund supporting residents impacted by recent immigration enforcement actions pasadenanow.com/main/city-to-l…

"The Army is putting up $232 million for the work, the Defense Department notice says... The company doesn’t appear to have any experience with detention, but earlier this year the US Army paid Acquisition Logistics more than $5 million for “lodging and conference room services”

The Trump admin awarded a $1.3 billion contract to erect a 5,000 bed tent camp in what will be the largest immigration detention facility in the country. w/ @FolaAk @racheladhe bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"Border Patrol agents have also become a fixture in the halls outside immigration courtrooms in Lower Manhattan, where they routinely help ICE agents detain people coming out of hearings, according to immigration advocates & lawyers"

Under Trump, Border Patrol arrests immigrants far from U.S.-Mexico border, w/ @d_hawk washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

Latest from me and @TBowmanNPR : The Trump administration asked for two more bases, and to double bed space at Guantanamo, and they got it. The latest comes as they are looking to increase immigration detention space where possible. npr.org/2025/07/21/nx-…

Facilitating ICE arrests. Putting a skyrocketing number of immigrants in deportation proceedings. Under Trump, USCIS—an immigration benefits agency—has embraced a new enforcement role news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

A federal appeals court is allowing Temporary Protected Status for nearly 12,000 Afghans to expire one week after granting them a temporary reprieve from losing the deportation relief news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

Calif. Pot Workers Sue Farm For $1.25M Over Wage Theft Citizens of Colombia, Argentina & Spain have sued in federal court, alleging they weren't paid the wages promised bc the owners believe the workers wouldn't be protected by state or federal law law360.com/immigration/ar…

"To Staff Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, ICE Entices Its Retirees The administration is offering financial incentives to lure back recently departed immigration officers as it works to fill 10,000 job openings." Advertising 50k signing bonuses nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/…

Amid news of the release from CECOT was this added info: "Venezuelan officials on Friday afternoon announced the arrival of a separate flight from Texas delivering its citizens, including several children who had been separated from their families and kept in US care."