In the long run, however, the proposed rule will amount to the opposite of good stewardship: It will cost the government, and taxpayers, much more than it will save. ...
Daily Archives: August 17, 2018
Online trolls are using immigration as a wedge issue for 2018 midterm elections
Clad in military jackets, with bandannas hiding their faces, Eddie Alvarez and other members of the Brown Berets clashed with other protesters in Murrieta in July 2014. ...
Judge blocks Trump from deporting reunited families
Late Thursday night, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting any of the reunited families who were separated under the administration’s “zero tolerance” prosecution policy earlier this year, argui ...
“This Case Is About a Lie”
Ignacio Lanuza had every reason to believe he’d earned the right to live in the United States. An undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Lanuza had worked in masonry and construction since entering the country in 1996. ...
Internal ICE Emails Show How the Government Set a Trap for Undocumented Spouses of US Citizens
On January 30, Lucimar de Souza, an undocumented immigrant from Brazil, went into a US Citizenship and Immigration Services office to prove her marriage to an American citizen was legitimate. ...
White House to honor ICE ‘heroes’ after family separation fiasco
The “Salute to the Heroes of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs [and] Border Protection" is scheduled for Aug. 20 in the East Room, an administration official confirmed, in the latest signal that the Tru ...
Unrest reported at immigration detention center in Texas
The Justice Department says the incident happened Wednesday at the Karnes County Family Resident Center. The agency did not say what caused the unrest. ...
Government Appealing Ruling Cafe Owner Won’t Be Deported
Ibrahim Parlak was granted a deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture, an international law protecting refugees from being returned under threat of torture or death. Immigration Judge Katheryn Deangelis r ...
U.S. Attorney General Issues Order to Speed Up Immigrant Deportations
Sessions, in an interim order that was criticized by some lawyers, said the "good-cause" standard "limits the discretion of immigration judges and prohibits them from granting continuances for any reason or no reason at ...
The U.S. Doesn’t Track Unaccompanied Migrants. 4 Agencies Say: Not Our Problem.
Facing heated questions from a Senate subcommittee, officials from the Health and Human Services Department, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the federal immigration courts each said ...