NIJC, Sept. 20, 2024 "The U.S. government spends over three billion a year on the largest immigration detention apparatus in the world to detain and deport people who have lived in the U.S. for...
Heritage Foundation v. DHS "In this Freedom of Information Act case, Plaintiffs seek the disclosure by the Department of Homeland Security of certain immigration records relating to the Duke of...
In pending litigation in federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, USCIS Asylum Division Chief John L. Lafferty provided this sworn declaration dated July 26, 2024.
IRHTP, PLS, Sept. 2024 "Consistent complaints over the last twenty-five years reveal a disturbing pattern of systemic abuse and mistreatment of ICE detainees at Plymouth County Correctional Facility...
DHS, Sept. 24, 2024 "Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, in consultation with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, designated Qatar into the Visa Waiver Program (VWP)....
"A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center, in collaboration with Winston & Strawn LLP, can proceed with a federal lawsuit that challenges the U.S. government’s use of immigration detainers, a key tool in the Secure Communities enforcement program which has resulted in record levels of immigration detention and deportation under the Obama administration. The Honorable John Z. Lee of the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois found that the two plaintiffs — including a U.S. citizen — can sue the government even though it lifted their detainers soon after they filed the lawsuit. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issues detainers to instruct local police to continue to detain individuals after the local police’s authority has expired, until DHS officers arrive to take the individuals into custody. The plaintiffs are representatives of a possible class action consisting of thousands of individuals subjected to immigration detainers." - NIJC, Dec. 4, 2012.