Senate bill's critics fear longer detentions for migrants
"The bipartisan Senate immigration bill would drastically expand the ability to deport and detain certain immigrants in little-noticed provisions that could increase racial profiling, Los Angeles immigrant rights advocates said Thursday.
In coordinated news conferences in five cities nationwide, immigrant rights advocates said the bill would allow the indefinite detention of some immigrants, limit judicial review of legalization cases and expand detention facilities.
"These egregious provisions fly in the face of due process and constitutional law," said Stacy Tolchin, a Los Angeles immigration lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild."
TERESA WATANABE in the Los Angeles Times.