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)....
"The long and short of the yarn spun by anti-immigration opponents that unauthorized immigrants and legal immigrants must play by the rules and wait in "the line" is that this supposed concern about law compliance is nothing short of a proxy for keeping people out. The "line" flouts rather than upholds the rule of law. It is the football snatched away at the last second by Lucy as Charlie Brown moves to kick it. ... Economists generally agree that robust immigration reform will help resolve our economic distress. But before we follow this prescription, we must be clear-eyed about the memes that create linear obfuscation. We need to create an immigration people-mover in place of the static "line." - Angelo A. Paparelli, Feb. 3, 2013. [Be sure to read the whole column, including sobering number-crunching by David Simmons, and a nostalgic video from 1946.]