Aaron Martinez, El Paso Times, Sept. 26, 2024 " Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center is the second El Paso immigration nonprofit to sue Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , accusing him of violating...
CILP, Sept. 2024 You’ve heard of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but what about immigration nerds in cars getting coffee?? As we’ve carpooled with our colleagues to the UCLA Law School...
Matt Dougherty, Ithaca.com, Sept. 24, 2024 "Cornell University has become the first university to suspend a student for pro-Palestinian organizing this semester, putting them at risk of deportation...
Muzaffar Chishti and Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, MPI, Sept. 27, 2024 "The Democratic Party’s approach to the U.S.-Mexico border has fundamentally shifted, as was illustrated most clearly at...
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...
"With the Obama administration deporting illegal immigrants at a record pace, the president has said the government is going after “criminals, gang bangers, people who are hurting the community, not after students, not after folks who are here just because they’re trying to figure out how to feed their families.”
But a New York Times analysis of internal government records shows that since President Obama took office, two-thirds of the nearly two million deportation cases involve people who had committed minor infractions, including traffic violations, or had no criminal record at all." - Ginger Thompson and Sarah Cohen, New York Times, Apr. 7, 2014.