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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jan. 22, 2015

White House official, MABA talk excessive policing against immigrants

Felicia Escobar, special assistant to President Barack Obama for immigration policy, highlighted upcoming immigration reform policies in her keynote speech Saturday at Loyola Law School for the Mexican American Bar Association's "Hands Up: Don't Shoot and Don't Deport Me" MCLE event.


By Kibkabe Araya


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - The Obama administration's immigration reform includes a program aimed at reducing local and state law enforcement inappropriately reporting individuals to immigration officials.


The Priority Enforcement Program, or PEP, was one of many upcoming immigration reform policies highlighted by Felicia Escobar, special assistant to President Barack Obama for immigration policy, in her key...

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