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Report Released on the Due Process Rights of Disabled Immigrant Detainees Facing Deportation
30 Mar 2010 / Announcements, Deportation, Immigration EnforcementThe New York Times reported yesterday that Texas Appleseed, a public interest law center and Akin Gump, a corporate law firm co-wrote a report that is scheduled to be released today concerning the due process rights of disabled immigrant detainees facing deportation. The report shows that the detainees, mostly from New York and other areas in the northeast, even some from mental [...]
New Procedure for Asylum Seekers in DHS Custody
17 Dec 2009 / Announcements, Asylum, Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, NewsThe U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) announced that beginning January 4, 2010, it will release from DHS custody, arriving foreign nationals who seeking asylum who can show that they have a credible fear of persecution or torture. The new policy will allow these asylum seekers to be released from DHS custody and be paroled into the U.S. Parole is a temporary authorization [...]
U.S. Marine’s Father Out of DHS Custody
16 Oct 2009 / DeportationThe 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
06 Oct 2009 / DeportationThe 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 [...]
