DHS, July 2, 2024 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Council on Combating Gender-Based Violence (CCGBV) has two announcements to share with you. Building on DHS’s commitment to improving...
CMS, July 5, 2024 "President Biden’s recent decision to extend parole-in-place to the undocumented spouses of US citizens who entered the country without inspection is a significant first...
DHS OIG, July 3, 2024 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) did not adjudicate affirmative asylum applications in a timely manner to meet statutory timelines and to reduce its existing...
Miliyon Ethiopis, July 8, 2024 "I feel like I have been born again, after a U.S. immigration court made a remarkable ruling in my “statelessness” case in June . I hope that my case will...
Identical DHS and DOS media notes are here and here . Media coverage here , here , here , here , here and here . The intent is to curtail irregular migration through the Darién Gap . [I have...
"Their nightmare dragged on for more than two years. The undocumented women from Eastern Europe were brought to the Chicago area where they were later beaten, branded and forced into prostitution. The man responsible for the scheme, Alex Campbell, was sentenced Monday to life without parole in a federal prison and to pay $124,000 in restitution. “They (the victims) have a life sentence -- all of them . . . and their life sentence at your hands compels a life sentence for you,” U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman told Campbell during sentencing. Campbell, 47, formerly of Glenview, Ill., operated the Day and Night Spa on Northwest Highway in Mount Prospect, Ill. He called himself “Cowboy” and used violence and threats of violence to force three women from Ukraine and one from Belarus to work for him without pay between July 2008 and January 2010, according to a press release from U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement." - Maria Zamudio, Chicago Reporter, Nov. 27, 2012.