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)....
This episode of On the Media (Feb. 28, 2014, 52 minutes total audio) has several excellent segments, including:
Investigating Use of Force at the Border: "A recent investigation from The Arizona Republic found that since 2005, at least 42 people have been killed by US Customs and Border Protection agents. But getting information about those incidents is no easy task. Bob [Garfield] speaks with Bob Ortega, one of the reporters behind the investigation, about the difficulty in getting answers on use of force at the border."
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Invasive Cavity Search at the Border: ""Jane Doe" is a 54-year old US citizen who was crossing into the US at the Juarez / El Paso border when agents took her aside for secondary screening. The screening ended up being 6 hours of invasive cavity searches — which yielded nothing and left her traumatized. Bob [Garfield] speaks with Laura Schauer Ives, an ACLU attorney for Jane Doe about what happened at the border that day."