The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) announced recently that it has implemented the Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS).  ODLS is a web-based system that will allow family members, attorneys, and other concerned individuals to locate foreign nationals that are known or believed to be in DHS custody. The ODLS is a centralized system in which detainee information is updated in [...]

The 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 [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported yesterday that Army veteran Rennison Castillo sued the Federal government because officials from the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) kept him in their custody despite his requests for officials to verify his claim as a U.S. citizen. Ultimately, attorneys from the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project managed to present evidence to confirm Mr. Castillo’s citizenship.  Once the [...]

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 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 [...]