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Protest March Against Alabama Anti-Illegal Immigration Law
05 Mar 2012 / ICE, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration ReformFoxNews Latino reports: Alabama’s laws cracking down on illegal immigration have become a new focus for a nearly two-decade-old civil rights march. Organizers expect thousands to participate in the crossing of the Selma bridge for the 47th anniversary of the 1965 incident when peaceful demonstrators were attacked by police in what became known as “Bloody [...]
ICE To Pay $350,000 to U.S. Immigrants for Wrongful Raid
22 Feb 2012 / ICE, Immigration Enforcement, NewsThe U.S. has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by eleven immigrants as a result of their arrests after ICE conducted a series of immigration raids in their houses in 2007. The immigrants involved will not be deported. This is the largest settlement ever paid by the United States and immigration lawyers are touting the court settlement as a landmark victory [...]
ICE Enforcement Priorities
04 Mar 2011 / Immigration EnforcementJohn Morton, head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), pictured at right, has issued a memorandum the enforcement priorities and procedures of Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) as they relate to the apprehension, detention, and removal of non-U.S. citizens.
First Group of Haitians Deported Since Last Year’s Earthquake
21 Jan 2011 / Announcements, Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, NewsThe Orlando Sentinel reported today that the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) deported yesterday, 26 Haitians who have criminal convictions. This was the first group of Haitians that have been deported since the U.S. government placed a hold on deportations soon after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that ravaged that country last year. The Haitian-American community in Florida and the immigration advocates who [...]
New York Governor Pardons 24 Immigrants
30 Dec 2010 / Announcements, Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, NewsThe New York Times reported earlier this week that Governor Patterson issued pardons last week to 24 lawful permanent residents (green card holders) with prior criminal convictions, to avoid deportation to their native countries. The Governor’s term and by extension, the pardon panel will end on December 31, 2010. The panel received over 1,100 applications for executive clemency this year and the pressure to render decisions on [...]
Is the DHS’ Workplace Enforcement too Lenient?
01 Nov 2010 / Deportation, Employer Sanctions, Employment Authorization, Immigration Enforcement, NewsThe Orlando Sentinel reported today that critics in the federal government have raised concerns that although the President has heightened immigration enforcement efforts on businesses that are suspected of hiring undocumented immigrants, and despite the fact that the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) has already conducted more workplace audits of the I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) forms, critics feel that the government’s enforcement has been has been too lenient [...]
Deportations in Florida Are on the Rise
27 Oct 2010 / Announcements, Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, NewsThe Orlando Sentinel reported today that in Florida, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) officers under the leadership of Marc Moore who was appointed by the DHS earlier this year to head the USICE’s Office of Detention & Removal at the Miami Field Office, oversaw the deportations of over 15,000 foreign nationals, most of them were deported because of their criminal convictions. [...]
Pardon Panel in New York State Faces Its End
22 Oct 2010 / Announcements, Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, NewsThe New York Times reported today that New York State Governor David A. Paterson formed a special clemency panel consisting of a group of five (5) individuals from the governor’s office and state agencies earlier this year to expedite the granting of clemency, otherwise known as pardons to lawful permanent residents (green card holders) who are in deportation proceedings for criminal convictions that [...]
DHS Secretary Says, 17% Decline in Arrests by Border Patrol
19 Oct 2010 / Announcements, Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, NewsThe Orlando Sentinel reported today that the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano reported yesterday that the U.S. Customs & Border Protection (USCBP), a component of the DHS, reported a 17% reduction in arrests in Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 which ended on September 30, 2010. According to the DHS Secretary, the reduction in arrests is the result of a combination of factors such as the downward economy, heightened [...]
Government Reports Record Number of Deportations
07 Oct 2010 / Announcements, Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Reform, NewsThe Orlando Sentinel reported today that the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) deported about 392,000 foreign nationals in Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 which ran from October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010. According to USICE officials, about 195,000 of the individuals deported were criminal aliens. That was about a 70% increase from compared to FY 2008. This record number of deportations was the result [...]
