Archive for the ‘Removal’ Category
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Lawmakers and immigration groups are calling on the Obama administration to grant special status that would protect Haitian immigrants in the USA from deportation and allow them to work legally. That would be a step beyond what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that Haitian deportations would be ...
Posted in DHS, Haitian Deportations, Immigration Groups, Removal, TPS, Undocumented Immigrants | No Comments »
Friday, January 15th, 2010
According to the statement issued by Matt Chandler, Deputy Press Secretary, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton have temporarily halted all removal of Haiti in the wake of earthquake there. ICE continues to closely monitoring the situation.
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Posted in DHS, Haiti, ICE, John Morton, Matt Chandler, Napolitano, Removal, Undocumented Immigrants | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
In yet another revelation, immigrant advocates say immigration authorities have begun deportation proceedings against an estimated 13,000 inmates held at the Rikers Island penal complex in New York since 2004. Disclosing it to the media, a coalition of advocacy group says they have obtained the data through a Freedom of ...
Posted in Foreign-Born Inmates, Immigrant Advocacy Groups, Immigrant Advocates, Local Jails, New York City's Deparment of Correction, Removal, Rikers Island Penal Complex | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
The grim violations of human rights in detention system are still far from over. Scores of foreigners locked up on civil immigration violations and awaiting deportation are neither criminals nor accused of any crime, but you’d never know it from the way they are treated. Scattered across a network of ...
Posted in 512-Bed State Prison, Civil Immigration Violations, Detention Mess, Federal Facilities, Humane Detention System, Monitor Violations, Removal, Standard of Detentions | No Comments »
Monday, August 10th, 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) sealed a deal to extend an agreement requiring ICE to maintain improvements in the condition at the T. Don Hutto family detention center in Texas and submit to external oversight until the last family is released from the facility. ...
Posted in ACLU Racial Justice Program, Detention of Families at Hutto, Inhumane Conditions, Removal, T. Don Hutoo Family Detention Center | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Obama or Bush doesn’t matter, immigration prosecutions are increasing, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), April 2009 registered a steep rise in immigration prosecution nearly 8.5% compared to last month. TRAC obtained certain documents under the Freedom of Information Act from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys ...
Posted in Criminal Immigration Prosecution, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Federal Criminal Prosecutions, Guard County's Borders, Immigration Prosecution, Lead Charges, Magistrate Cases, Removal, U.S. Magistrate Courts | No Comments »
Friday, July 17th, 2009
The latest update from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reveals 17 percent increase in criminal arrests on the Southwest Border in first three quarters of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, compared to the same period in FY 2008. From Oct. 1, 2008 through June 29, 2009, ICE made 6, 834 ...
Posted in Border Criminal Arrests, Criminal Aliens, FBI Database, ICE Statistics, Manslaughter, Rape, Removal | No Comments »
Friday, July 17th, 2009
Expressing his displeasure over the Department’s new policies with regard to the 287(g) program, Senator Chuck Grassley said that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is obstructing State and local law enforcement personnel from investigating, apprehending and detaining illegal aliens. Grassley was of the opinion that department’s new policies will ...
Posted in Compliance, Detaining Illegal Immigrants, Local Law Enforcement Agencies, Removal, Sen. Chuck Grassley | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Assurances of comprehensive immigration reform apart, the U.S. government is removing unauthorized population at a gathering pace. Reuters published a news that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) Flight Operations Unit, carrying out a policy begun under former President George W. Bush, has moved an average of 4,200 unauthorized migrants a ...
Posted in Deportation Flights, ICE Flight Operations Unit, Mayan Indian, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway, Removal, Reuters, Revolving Door, Spousal Battery | No Comments »
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Taking a tough stand against undocumented aliens’ presence in its territory, Arizona has moved a step closer to becoming the only state in U.S. to criminalize the presence of undocumented aliens by broadening the ambit of its trespassing law. Last week, the Arizona Senate passed the contentious bill by 16-11 ...
Posted in Arizona Senate, Enforcement to Catch Immigrants, Gov. Jan Brewer, Removal, Trespassing Law, Undocumented Aliens Criminalization | No Comments »
