02 April

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DHS watchdog finds widespread mistreatment of immigrants at ICE facility

in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments

Immigrants held at an immigration detention center in Arizona were subject to widespread mistreatment last year, ranging from inadequate medical care to excessive punishment for peacefully protesting lax coronavirus mitigation efforts, an internal government watchdog found. During a remote inspection of the La Palma Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) found violations that jeopardized "the health, safety, and rights" of detainees, according to a report published Thursday. Citing...

21 June

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What it’s like inside the former superstore in Texas where the US is holding 1,400 immigrant children

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Border Patrol - USCIS, High Pressure, Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments, The Immigrant

Brownsville, Texas (CNN) The strangeness of the largest migrant children's center in the United States, near the border with Mexico, shows up in the details. Here, there are 1,469 boys, ages 10 to 17, housed inside the 250,000-square-foot shell of a former Walmart superstore. None of the 313 bedrooms have doors. Or ceilings, so that children lying in their beds look up past where their walls end to the scaffolding of the superstore roof high above. The...

21 June

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Flores agreement: Trump’s executive order to end family separation might run afoul of a 1997 court ruling

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Border Patrol - USCIS, High Pressure, Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments, The Immigrant

The solution to the crisis of family separation at the US-Mexico border, the Trump administration has decided, is to get rid of a 1997 federal court decision that strictly limits the government’s ability to keep children in immigration detention. The administration has fingered Flores v. Reno, or the “Flores settlement,” as the reason it is “forced” to separate parents from their children to prosecute them. It claims that because it cannot keep parents and children in immigration detention together, it has no...

09 February

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Congress Needs To Hold ICE Accountable for Abuses

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Noteworthy Developments

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When Karah de Oliveira and her husband, Fabiano, showed up at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Office in Lawrence, Massachusetts, they expected to have an interview about their marriage, the first part of an application for a green card. Fabiano has lived in the U.S. since 2005 and the two have a 5-year-old son together. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement had other ideas. ICE arrested Fabiano, who became one of many members of our communities who have been arrested while...

06 February

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The truth about DACA Dreamers

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Noteworthy Developments

What are the facts about "Dreamers"? There is a particularly fraudulent meme floating around the Internet, which cites extremely dubious statistics to convince readers that the young undocumented immigrants known as "Dreamers" are a detriment to society. The meme seemingly cites accurate statistics to dispute the claim that so-called "Dreamers" have had a positive impact on American society. According to Snopes, it is MOSTLY FALSE. You can read their report in the link below. However, the next time...

11 December

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TV: Fresh Off the Boat: Randall Park on humanizing the immigrant experience

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in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, The Immigrant

Although Randall Park calls Fresh Off the Boat ultimately “just a fun, heartfelt show,” he emphasizes the importance of simultaneously shining light on the immigrant experience. “I think it’s really important right now, especially in today’s climate, to be able to humanize the immigrant experience [and] to present immigrant characters and an Asian-American family in a multi-faceted way,” he told EW. “Everyone can find something that they identify with when they watch our show. But at the same time,...

11 December

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Mexican Bride Marries American Groom During Rare Opening Of Border Gate

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A heavy metal gate at the U.S.–Mexican border temporarily became a bridge Saturday when a Mexican woman married her American fiancé. The gate, known as the “Door of Hope,” is inside Friendship Park, a small strip of land on the border near San Diego and Tijuana where families from both countries can chat with each other through the fence’s heavy screen, according to the Los Angeles Times. The park is only open for a few hours each weekend, and the...

11 December

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Haitian quake victims in the U.S. will lose deportation protection in 2019

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in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Noteworthy Developments

"After years of being shielded from deportation from the United States while their disaster-prone country continues to recover from its devastating 2010 earthquake, tens of thousands of Haitians will now lose that safeguard. The special deportation protection known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, will be revoked for as many as 59,000 Haitians living and working in Miami and across the U.S., Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Elaine Duke announced Monday. The protection will permanently terminate...

DHS watchdog finds widespread mistreatment of immigrants at ICE facility

What it’s like inside the former superstore in Texas where the US is holding 1,400 immigrant children

Flores agreement: Trump’s executive order to end family separation might run afoul of a 1997 court ruling

Congress Needs To Hold ICE Accountable for Abuses

The truth about DACA Dreamers

TV: Fresh Off the Boat: Randall Park on humanizing the immigrant experience

Mexican Bride Marries American Groom During Rare Opening Of Border Gate

Haitian quake victims in the U.S. will lose deportation protection in 2019

Immigration Agencies Ordered Not To Use Term ‘Illegal Alien’ Under New Biden Policy

Supreme Court Seems Poised to Back Limits on Green Cards

‘Shameful,’ ‘unacceptable and unconscionable’: Biden faces blowback from Democrats over refugee cap

Lawyers find the parents of 61 more separated migrant children