Links of Interest
What We Read, February 6-8, 2012
Immigration
- The National Immigrant Youth Alliance has created UndocuHealth, a resource for undocumented immigrants with mental health issues (via Feministing ).
- The merit’s brief for Petitioner Arizona in the federal immigration case U.S. v. Arizona is now available at SCOTUSBlog.
Community Justice:
- The Manhattan Institute has released a report on racial segregation in neighborhoods, looking at trends over the last century. The ACLU critiques the report here.
Criminal Justice:
- The ACLU discusses the current state of politics and the federal sentencing guidelines.
- The 7th Circuit issued a ruling (.pdf) discussing what meaningful consideration of sentencing recommendations is. The decision also concerns not only how judges must meet their obligations for evaluating competing sentencing request, but how they must explain why one recommendation was accepted and the other rejected.