In the last post, this blog opened a discussion into a recent announcement from Immigration and Customs Enforcement concerning ICE holds under the Secure Communities program that involves an apparent relaxation of policy in ICE detentions after a local arrest of an...
Deportation and Removal
ICE announces new Secure Communities policy in traffic offense cases, P. 1
Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Friday that the agency will modify its policy under the Secure Communities program in relation to minor traffic arrests. A task force was created last year due to criticism of the program that uses fingerprint information...
News breaks that Rubio’s grandfather was ordered deported in 1962
Murky details of Marco Rubio's maternal grandfather's experience with U.S. immigration officials are making news this week, as the Associated Press unearthed federal records under a Freedom of Information Act request. The details, however, are as incomplete as the...
Supreme Court to hear immigration law challenge Wednesday
Lawmakers in Florida have considered new immigration laws during the past two sessions, without passing legislation on the issue. Meanwhile, as this blog has previously reported, a number of states of enacted legislation that has received various levels of review in...
UN Refugee Agency says global asylum applications rose in 2011
The United Nations Refugee Agency says that the number of people seeking asylum in industrialized nations jumped 20 percent last year when compared to 2010. The agency issued its report in late March. The report covers applications for asylum in 44 industrialized...
Federal judge denies immigrant’s class-action injunction in ICE raids
In February, this blog discussed a settlement of a lawsuit filed against immigration officials after Immigration and Customs Enforcement descended on a number of homes in Connecticut and conducted ICE raids. The government agreed to settle the civil federal litigation...
ICE: 22 percent of deportations involve parents of US citizens, P. 2
In the last post, this blog began a discussion of the recent report to Congress from immigration officials on the number of U.S. deportations that involve the parent of a U.S. citizen. The 2011 numbers were compiled during the first six months of the year, and the...
ICE: 22 percent of deportations involve parents of US citizens, P. 1
While the political pundits discuss immigration reform and enforcement in an election year, a new study reveals that immigration laws affect real people, including many U.S. citizens. A recent federal report includes new information that has reportedly never before...
Proposed new immigration law would mandate deportation for DUI
There has been public discussion and even confusion regarding how federal immigration policy involving prosecutorial discretion will pan out. This blog has reported several stories of the new immigration policy in recent months, including a story from the West Coast,...
Miami valedictorian and her sister get reprieve from deportation
The North Miami High School valedictorian and her sister who were facing imminent deportation have been given a reprieve. This blog carried the story of the two sister's plight on Monday after an immigration judge ordered the two young women to leave the country....