Immigration

Nationally top-rated Crime Junkies podcaster Ashley Flowers, a South Bend native, is giving La Casa de Amistad $500,000 to expand its immigration legal services clinic.

Elkhart County’s H-1B hiring rate trails the national average, with 25 new hires in 2025. Manufacturing led local approvals, according to a new analysis.

St. Joseph Superior Judge Jenny Pitts Manier granted Sheriff Bill Redman's motion to dismiss, finding that Rokita lacks standing to bring the complaint, he offered no evidence that Redman has a policy or practice of stopping staff from cooperating with ICE, and a state attorney general can't force local police to help ICE.

La Casa de Amistad community engagement director Dara Marquez says honoring Latino immigrants who have helped others, at a time when immigrants are increasingly cast as outsiders, reminds her that Hispanics have called Michiana home for decades.

St. Joseph Superior Judge Mark Telloyan, a former Republican county council member, agreed to take the case Wednesday but Redman's attorneys Friday filed a motion asking for someone else.

Citing a potential conflict of interest that he doesn't disclose, St. Joseph County Circuit Judge John Broden has recused himself from Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita's immigration-related lawsuit against Sheriff Bill Redman.

St. Joseph County says Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita's lawsuit over handling jail inmates who are undocumented immigrants is too vague, he lacks standing to bring it, and it violates core federal and state principles and laws.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita told of a teacher who retired early because too many students don't know English.

Sean O'Brien, who has practiced immigration law for five years in South Bend, has started leading a new Immigration Law Clinic at La Casa de Amistad to prepare for a Trump administration crackdown.