Dave joined FAIR in 2017 after more than ten years as an Assistant State Attorney in Broward County, Florida. His prosecutorial experience covered trial litigation at the misdemeanor and felony levels, drug court and mental health court, and two years as an intake attorney in the juvenile division working closely with law enforcement. Before this, he was a legislative analyst/staff attorney with the Judiciary Committee of the Florida House of Representatives, where he assisted state legislators in ensuring the effectiveness and constitutionality of legislation on a wide variety of subject matter. In both capacities, he often dealt with the interaction of state law and immigration. Dave holds BAs in History and International Relations from American University and a JD from Tulane University Law School.
When the Prince William County, Virginia, jail board recently took the unfortunate step of ending their 13-year-old 287(g) agreement with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), one…
In the past ten years, several states have passed legislation trying to clamp down on dangerous sanctuary policies at the local level, with mixed success. Florida’s…
In March, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Kansas v. Garcia. This ruling may be one of most significant on the states’ role in…
The Supreme Court could soon decide the constitutionality of sanctuary policies. Before the Court now is a case that reviews the validity of California’s sanctuary-state law,…
Sheriffs of Buncombe, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg, and Wake counties, North Carolina, stopped honoring immigration detainers this year. Since their decision, local authorities released more than…