Venezia said he is puzzled by the jump in fees, especially given that the program nearly tripled fees in 2016, explaining at the time that the new fees would fully cover the program’s costs, he said. Continue reading
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Immigrant advocates sue US over yanked detention hotline
The hotline received between 600 and 14,500 calls per month, according to the lawsuit. It was limited to use at detention facilities in Florida in 2018 and was shut down entirely in August 2019, the group said. Continue reading
The CBP Officials Who Left Carlos Vasquez to His Death May Have Committed Crimes
ProPublica published an extensive investigative report last week detailing the circumstances surrounding the death of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez. The teenager died in Customs and Border Protection detention in May, approximately one week after entering the United States—even though children are not supposed to be held by CBP for more than 72 hours before being transferred to Health and Human Services. Vasquez had boarded a raft on the Rio Grande with dozens of others and was promptly apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents after landing in Hidalgo, Texas. He was separated from his adult sister, with whom he had been traveling, and placed in CBP custody, where he apparently developed and then died from the flu. Continue reading
2 Nobel-winning economists speak out on our big economic problem: not enough immigration
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are immigrants themselves — and they both think the evidence shows we need more people like them.
A New Report on Family Separations Shows the Depths of Trump’s Negligence
Asylum-seeking families from Central America, who have been forced to wait in dangerous Mexican border cities under another policy called the Migration Protection Protocols, are now sending their children to cross the U.S. border alone. And, on the American side, since June, 2018, D.H.S. has already separated an additional eleven hundred children from their parents. The Administration has learned one lesson, however: it no longer calls its policy zero tolerance. Continue reading
How McKinsey Helped The Trump Administration Detain And Deport Immigrants
But the firm’s work supporting the Trump administration’s immigration clampdown has continued. Just a week after Sneader announced that the ICE engagement was over, McKinsey signed a $2 million contract to advise Customs and Border Protection as it drafted a new border strategy to replace the Obama administration’s approach, and it has since signed still another contract with CBP — worth up to $8.4 million — that will keep the firm at the agency through September 2020 at least. Continue reading
9 arrested at protest of immigration detention company
Police have arrested nine demonstrators who used cement and tar to glue themselves to the entrances of a private prison company headquarters in Florida to protest the treatment of immigrants. Continue reading
At a high school of immigrants just outside Washington, soccer is a break from hectic reality
He walked up and down the aisle of the bus, grabbing the backs of seats for stability as the team rumbled toward Langley Park. He talked with his players about soccer, school and the future. But mostly he told them he still loves them and he hopes they had fun. Continue reading
Asylum Seekers Protest at ICE Jail in Louisiana
Winn detains up to 1,500 men and is one of at least eight jails in Louisiana since last year to start holding immigrant detainees. Continue reading
Asylum Seekers Jam US Border Crossings to Evade Trump Policy
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, said his first concern is public safety and that he is confident U.S. officials will resolve the border traffic problems. Continue reading