Archive for the ‘Removal’ Category
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Portraying a grim situation of Immigration Courts, the Transactional Record Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) has revealed that the backlog of immigration cases awaiting disposal by the judges has increased by 64% over the past decade. TRAC detailed study hinges upon a variety of sources including hundreds of thousands of internal administrative ...
Posted in Foreign Nationals, Immigration Courts, Removal, the Transactional Record Access Clearinghouse, TRAC | No Comments »
Friday, June 5th, 2009
Earmarking a substantial monitory package for 13 Border States and the Territory of Puerto Rico, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano has announced fiscal year 2009 Operation Stonegarden grants of $60 million. These grants will enhance the capabilities of federal state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies ...
Posted in Border States, Compliance, DHS, Monitory Package, Removal, Southwest Border Visit, Territory of Puerto Rico, Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies, U.S.-Mexico Border | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
The American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF) has published a practice advisory for lawyers that discusses the INA § 237(a)(1)(H) waiver for fraud or misrepresentation at admission that would otherwise render deportable certain Legal Permanent Residents and Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) self petitioners. The highlights of this waiver are that ...
Posted in AILF, INA 237(a)(1)(H), Legal Permanent Residents, Practice Advisory, Removal, VAWA, Violence Against Women Act, Waiver for Fraud and Misrepresentation | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Finally, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported John Demjanjuk, an 89 year old former Nazi death camp guard also known as “Ivan the Terrible” among the tormented prisoners to Germany. Demjanjuk was deported to Germany through a court order of removal obtained by the Department of Justice (DOJ). ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released FAQs on Form I-246 (Application for a Stay of Deportation or Removal). The Form I-246 is used by aliens who wish to obtain a stay of deportation or removal under the provisions of Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). ICE has released a ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
In the background of an estimated 30,000 Haitians currently in the deportation pipeline to be sent back to a storm ravaged country, struggling to recover from four back-to-back storms, which have left $1 billion in damages, the Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has some reassuring news for Haitians.
In an interview ...
Posted in Cuban Exiles, Florida's Shores, Haitian Prime Minister, Removal, The Miami Herald | No Comments »
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
With mounting pressure on US Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) to provide humane conditions and proper medical treatments to immigration detainees, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) took initiative to systematically conduct an audit on ICE’s detainee tracking and transfer processes. As our readers would recall that sometime back, we ...
Posted in Detainees Tracking and Transfer Processes, Humane Conditions at ICE Detention Centers, Office of Detention and Removal Operations, Removal | No Comments »
Monday, April 6th, 2009
The U.S. and Mexico have reached an agreement on formalized arrangements for the expedited and human repatriation of Mexican nationals. This was jointly announced by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa on April 03, 2009.
The agreement consists of 30 local ...
Posted in Local Arrangment Network, Mexican Repatriation, Removal, US - Mexico Bilateral Cooperation | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
The pendency of cases in U.S. immigration courts is fast becoming a matter of great concern. The cases are so clogged that 90,000 people accused of being in the U.S. illegally have waited almost for two years, for an immigration judge to decide whether they must leave. Among them were ...
Posted in Removal, Undocumented Immigrants in Jails, USA Today | No Comments »
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Departing from usual norms of detaining illegal workers, agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may prosecute employers hiring illegal workers. The possible legal action against the executives mark the change in Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) policy, particularly, in view of Secretary Janet Napolitano’s decisions to delay a ...
Posted in Illegal Immigrants, Immigration Raids, Removal | No Comments »
