Category: Dept of Homeland Security
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Here’s a good summary of the Border Wall Contracts that will extend or enhance the US/MX border wall.
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Read this Travel Ban Explainer by Immigration Monitor (a credible guide to global immigration). This lists countries with full and partial travel bans that affect various kinds of immigration and non-immigration visas – and the rationale for restricting travel and visas from these countries. Some exceptions make be available for some people with these reasons:…
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The CATO Institute wrote this article, The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists, and describes incidents that have taken place throughout the country where ICE agents have threatened to arrest people for filming, following or observing ICE arrests.
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This article refers to a Washington Post article that describes the DHS/ICE plan to establish a new network of warehouses to hold and process people who will be deported during 2026 : 15 small processing center warehouses (holding 500-1500 persons) in these locations: 7 larger holding center warehouses (housing 5,000 – 10,000 persons) in
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This aricle, ICE is Opening Shuttered Prisons as Detention Centers, (written and podcast of Morning Edition from NPR) describes the nationwide effort to create more detention space (counted as “beds”) throughout the country. This is to hold more immigrant detainees who are unauthorized and/or under consideration for deportation.
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This report, After the Blitz – What our Chicago Neighbors are facing in ICE Detention, by the National Immigrant Justice Center, describes what has happened to those people who were detained in the Chicago area, where they are being detained, and what has happened to them since their arrest.
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Since 1997, the Flores Agreement established a 20-day limit on the time a minor can be held in detention. A recent report from ICE indicated at over 400 children were detained for more than this 20-day limit. Read the article here.
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The Border Report explains that there are 2000 unaccompanied minors currently being housed in ORR (Office of Refugee Resettlement) in HHS (Health and Human Services). And that 25% of those unaccompanied minors (around 500 children) are now living in facilities near that southern border in Texas. The concern is that ICE may be preparing to…
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This article, by VT Digger, suggests that ICE is looking to outsource surveillance functions to look more closely at social media and other surveillance technology to identify arrestable/reportable residents throughout the country. The new surveillance center will be located in Williston, Vermont.
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Here’s an AI summary of the Border Act of 2024. The Border Act of 2024 (S. 4361), negotiated by Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), was a proposed bipartisan bill that aimed to significantly reform the U.S. immigration and asylum systems. It was not enacted into law, as it failed to pass…
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