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Almost 300 Arrested in Immigration Enforcement Push
The Orlando Sentinel reported today that agents from the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) arrested 286 people in California in a 3 day operation to apprehend suspected immigrants with criminal records and, undocumented immigrants without criminal records in California.
This enforcement action was conducted by the USICE’s Fugitive Operations Program, which is responsible for identifying, apprehending, and deporting criminal aliens and immigration fugitives who have ignored [...]
Immigrant Detainees, A Dangerous Game of Musical Chairs
Human Rights Watch (HRW) headquartered in New York City, reported recently that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) has been increasing their practice of transferring immigrants facing deportation to remote detention centers thus hampering their ability to defend themselves against deportation.
Human Rights Watch published an 88 page report titled, “Locked Up Far Away: The Transfer of Immigrants to Remote Detention Centers in the [...]
BIA Clarifies Definition of Step-Child for Immigration Purposes
The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ruled yesterday in Matter of Portillo-Gutierrez, 25 I&N, Dec. 148 (BIA 2009) that a step-child who meets the definition of a child under the immigration laws, is a qualifying relative for establishing exceptional and extremely unusual hardship for the purposes of cancellation of removal as a defense from deportation.
The Immigration Judge who heard Mr. Portillo-Gutierrez’s [...]
U.S. Marine’s Father Out of DHS Custody
The Orlando Sentinel reported today that after being held in detention for 11 days for failure to appear for a deportation hearing before the Immigration Court in Miami, Mr. Janos Lutz, the father of a U.S. Marine serving in Afghanistan has been freed from the Krome Detention Center in Miami and, is required to wear electronic ankle monitoring bracelet under the [...]
Immigrant Detainees to be Categorized by Level of Risk
The Miami Herald reported today that immigrants awaiting deportationwould now be confined depending on the level of risk whether it be a flight risk, or the nature of an immigrant’s criminal record under a new plan being proposed by DHS Secretary Napolitano.
The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) is looking into former hotels, nursing homes and other sites would be used [...]
