Category: Dept of Homeland Security
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This six-minute video on PBS interviews David Bier of the CATO Institute about both the legal and illegal immigrant reductions into the country under this administration. The recent CATO study shows that legal immigration has dropped to 1/3 of it’s previous level from 186,000 to 54,000 per month and illegal entries have reduced from 62,000…
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CBS News reports that ICE detained fewer non-criminals since Minnesota so detention numbers are down. Read here
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New Report (4/26) from Human Rights First and RAICES about Dilley Family Prison (near El Paso, Texas).
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A Nevada judge has ruled, in a class action suit, that “mandatory detention” for all unauthorized, despite their length of time in the US, is not legal nor practical. This after multiple courts, and appeals courts, have looked at the issue with varying decisions. Read “Detained migrants allege due process violations in class action lawsuit“
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This article explains the statistics around ICE detention of children during the Trump administration. Over 6200 children have been held. Despite regulations limiting the detention of children to 20 days, there have been over 1600 children who have been held for more than 20 days. In mid-March, 2026, there were fewer than 100 children in…
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This TRAC report shows the mothly % of asylum cases granted and denied – showing that the current denial rate is 80%. TRAC is the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse which references government data (from Department of Homeland Security) for it’s reports and data summaries.
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There are over 10,000 doctors with H1B (specialty) visas and 17,000 doctors with J1 (exchange visitor) currently practicing in the U.S. The visa freeze (and delays of renewal) by USCIS is causing havoc for these doctors many of whom work in rural areas of the U.S. Read here.
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This article describes the use of Graphite (from Israeli company Paragon Solutions) by ICE to surveil drug traffickers. This “zero click” technology allows the user to infiltrate a cell phone without the owner clicking on any link. There has been evidence of this technology being used on journalists and humanitarian air workers in Europe. There…
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