Feds Releasing Hundreds Of Violent Illegal Immigrants:  Arrests and deportations of criminal aliens dropped 30% in the first six months of fiscal year 2015, despite President Obama's professed intention for agents to "focus on felons not families."  Stephen Diana of the Washington Times reports that 30,558 criminal aliens were "knowingly released back into the community" by ICE in 2014.  Together these aliens accumulated almost 80,000 convictions including violent crimes.  ICE Director Sarah Saldana defends the actions of the agency, stating that the laws passed under Congress require her to grant due process to everyone and make judgments about whom to keep detained.

Alien Children Allowed To Sue For Legal Representation:  A US District Court Judge in Washington state rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that would grant legal representation to undocumented children facing deportation, ruling that their request for counsel "constituted an argument for due process."  Thomas Barrabi of the International Business Times reports that the ACLU filed the suit on behalf of Salvadorian sibling who immigrated illegally in 2013 to escape gang violence.  The ACLU has protested that mandatory detention of immigrants awaiting legal proceedings "violates the right to due process."

Tenn. Court Calls Off Scheduled Executions:  Four executions scheduled over the next year have been called off by the Tennessee Supreme Court to allow a trial court to review condemned murderer's challenges to the state's lethal injection protocol.  Mark Berman of the Washington Post reports that Tennessee is the latest state to halt executions while the courts consider challenges from Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma.  The state plans to use the electric chair as its execution method of lethal injection is ruled unconstitutional or if the necessary drugs are no longer available.

Six Jacksonville Shootings In Three Days:  Jacksonville, Florida is reeling in the aftermath of six shootings in three days, leaving residents and law enforcement questioning whether the violence is gang-related.  Larry Spruill of Action News JAX reports that residents believe gang activity is the only explanation for the violence, because gangs have a large presence in the city.  Gang counselor Ivan Brown is certain that at least one of the shootings, the drive-by, was carried out by gang members.