A group of parents who failed their initial asylum interviews while they were separated from their children under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy this spring and have been given deportation orders are ...
Tag Archives: Due Process
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 ...
U.S. pressured parents to sign away reunification rights, speeding deportations, lawyers charge
while the father was slated for deportation, according to an affidavit submitted in federal court by the ACLU Wednesday. Though he had not actually received an order of removal and had, in fact, passed the credible fear ...
Immigrant Parents Face a Dilemma: Will Making an Asylum Claim Make it Harder to Reunite with Their Kids?
She spent the weekend calling and e-mailing ice officials, as well as staff at the Honduran consulate, to try to get more information. “I thought my client was supposed to be covered by a judge’s order,” she told me, in ...
New Supreme Court decision could upend thousands of deportation cases in setback for immigration hard-liners
Teenagers and their attorneys sat quietly on rows of hard wooden benches in the windowless room, fidgeting, sighing, waiting. Their attorneys sat with stacks of files in their laps, peering at their phones. ...
Feds Force Immigrants Into Parking Garage for ‘Assembly-Line Justice’
The question from a U.S. magistrate judge to a young woman from Mexico was simple: Are you a United States citizen? But the woman paused and a titter went up from the packed gallery of court officials and news reporters. ...
California, long a holdout, adopts mass immigration hearings
It was pushing 5 p.m. on a Friday in May, and the judge in San Diego was wrestling with a surge in her caseload that resulted from the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy to prosecute everyone who enters the c ...
Defenseless Children
Last week, the Texas Tribune reported that children who’ve been separated from their parents at the border are being ordered to show up for deportation proceedings. “We were representing a 3-year-old in court recently wh ...
Trump reiterates demand to deport undocumented immigrants, asylum-seekers without due process
“Congress must pass smart, fast and reasonable Immigration Laws now. Law Enforcement at the Border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane,” the president wrote on Twitter Thursday morn ...
The Border Area Is In Dire Need Of Lawyers To Represent Asylum-Seekers
Last week Carlos García and Efrén Olivares stood apart from the crowd at a rally here in this border town located at the southernmost tip of Texas. A large crowd of 1,500 protesters chanted “The people united, will never ...
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