Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, Dec. 8, 2023 "A federal judge in San Diego on Friday approved a settlement that prohibits U.S. officials from separating migrant families for crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and offers aid to thousands of parents...
Austin Fisher, Source NM, Dec. 8, 2023 "When human waste flooded part of a U.S. immigration prison in central New Mexico last month, guards ordered incarcerated people to clean it up with their bare hands and put them in solitary confinement when they protested...
The Lever, Dec. 8, 2023 "As the country’s immigration agency ponders a significant expansion of its vast, troubled immigrant surveillance regime, private prison companies are telling investors that the proposal could bring significant profits —...
ICE, Aug. 15, 2023 "This Directive provides guidance to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel about Red Notices published by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and Wanted Person Diffusions circulated directly by...
ACLU New Mexico, Nov. 8, 2023 "A group of immigrants detained in inhumane conditions at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) is suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for certifying a sham inspection in 2022 that allowed...
Austin Kocher, Ph.D., Nov. 6, 2023 "ICE’s immigrant detention numbers have been growing in recent weeks, raising concerns about the treatment of migrants under the Biden administration and the impacts on government spending. Yet the agency refuses...
ICE, Jan. 13, 2023 "This Directive provides U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Officers with policy and procedures for confiscating and returning original documents upon initiation of removal proceedings...
DOJ, Oct. 16, 2023 "On Oct. 16, the United States reached a settlement in Ms. L., et al. v. ICE, et al. , a class action litigation filed in 2018 seeking injunctive relief relating to the separation of parents and children at the southwest border. The proposed...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Jessica Paszko, Oct. 10, 2023 "A Red Notice is a request to locate and provisionally arrest an individual pending extradition, which INTERPOL issues at the request of a member country or an international tribunal based on a valid national...
ICE, Sept. 29, 2023 "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced new agency-wide guidance about the use of Red Notices and Wanted Person Diffusions, as part of its commitment to comply with the requirements of INTERPOL’s Constitution...
EOIR, Sept. 28, 2023 "This Director’s Memorandum (DM) provides guidance to Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) adjudicators on the enforcement priorities and exercises of prosecutorial discretion of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS...
Interpol permanently deleted the bogus Red Notice. An Immigration Judge granted her asylum...twice. ICE still has her locked up. The habeas petition is here . The ACLU media release is here . Wesley Muller's Louisiana Illuminator article is here .
ACLU, Aug. 29, 2023 "The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) systematically, and illegally, discriminates against immigrants, refugees, and anyone who prison officials suspect is born outside of the United States, a major Public...
Las Americas, Aug. 21, 2023 " This week, the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center (NMILC), Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center (LAIAC), Innovation Law Lab, and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico (ACLU-NM) submitted a complaint to the Department...
Tom Dreisbach, NPR, Aug. 16, 2023 " "There is no justifiable correctional reason that required the detainee who had a mental health condition to have his clothes cut off by a female officer while he was compliant in a restraint chair. This is a barbaric...