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)....
Center for Constitutional Rights, Sept. 16, 2024
"Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, and the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the federal district court of New Mexico on Friday on behalf of four Venezuelan migrants who face indefinite detention in ICE custody at the Otero Processing Center in Chaparral, New Mexico. A petition for a writ of habeas corpus allows people who have been detained to challenge the legality of their confinement. In this case, the petitioners have been detained at Otero between nine and 11.5 months, and all have been detained for over six months since they have been ordered removed from the United States. As bilateral relations between the U.S. and Venezuela deteriorate, the petitioners allege that their prolonged and indefinite detention violates the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The petition can be viewed here."