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)....
"In a statement, ICE said the new deportation guidelines "remain in full force and effect" and that the federal judge's order clearly stated that the injunction didn't affect them. The agency said it has conducted a series of mandatory training for all ICE personnel as well as "repeatedly" discussed the injunction's scope with all its field office directors. But Chen said when the agency has instituted revised deportation guidelines in the past the implementation has been "inconsistent at best" because "unless clear guidance is given to officers they are very unlikely to grant discretion because there's an institutional predisposition against that." There's been a flood of calls in the past few weeks from worried lawyers and advocates, said Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, an advocacy group based in Los Angeles. "Some (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) offices are known to be historically problematic and with others it's probably just confusion," she said. "The administration needs to hone in on these offices." In the meantime some immigrants are falling through the cracks." - Lomi Kriel, Houston Chronicle, Mar. 8, 2015.