Alexandria Burris
Investigative Reporter at IndyStar
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1 week ago |
indystar.com | Alexandria Burris
Isabel Ponce has established a life in Seymour. She moved to the southern Indiana city 26 years ago, leaving Mexico to work in a factory. Since then, Ponce, who is of legal status, has opened several businesses — a beauty salon and a nail shop where she employs about six people — and now one of the town’s newest coffee shops, LatinUS Café.
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2 weeks ago |
indystar.com | Alexandria Burris
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using the Marion County Adult Detention Center to jail immigrants picked up in Indiana and neighboring states, according to local attorneys and advocates who say they are concerned by a lack of transparency about who is being held there and for how long.
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1 month ago |
indystar.com | Alexandria Burris
A bill that imposes harsher penalties on unlicensed motorists involved in auto accidents resulting in injuries passed the state Senate Monday, potentially setting back decades-long efforts to gain driving privileges for undocumented immigrants in Indiana. House Bill 1114 passed with a vote of 43-3. Lawmakers say the bill mirrors the state's driving while suspended statute.
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2 months ago |
msn.com | Alexandria Burris
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yahoo.com | Alexandria Burris
The Indiana House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday tying state funding for local governmental bodies to their cooperation in the enforcement of federal immigration law despite arguments from some Democrats who said they could not support the measure. House Bill 1531 passed the full chamber with a 64-26 vote after a brief discussion involving Union City Republican State Rep. J.D. Prescott, whose name is on the bill, and Democrats who sit on the House judiciary committee with him.
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