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"Is Congress making American courts more unfair?"
Media Source:
ProPublicaMedia URL:
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigrants-alabama-harsher-sentences-citizensDate:
2025/12/15Summary:
When it comes to criminal cases, “Judges tend to sentence noncitizens to longer sentences than U.S. citizens,” notes L&C Professor Juliet Stumpf, an expert on the intersection of immigration and criminal justice. Now, Congress is considering a bill that would add extra prison time to all undocumented immigrants convicted of felonies in state and federal court. “That would be a serious departure from the principles of our nation’s criminal law system,” Stumpf says, “which focus on a person’s actions, not their status, when imposing punishment.”
