Category: Immigration & Customs Enforcement
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This article, Civil rights jobs have been cut. Those ex-workers warn of ICE detention violations, describes lay-offs of key administrators in ICE no longer ensuring legal standards in detention centers.
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A recent report from Harvard University and Physicians for Human Rights states that immigrant detainees who are in solitary confinement for more than 15 days is considered torture. See the U.S. map with numbers in solitary confinement for the past year.
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Intelligencer has written this article (The New Court Tactic Helping ICE Deport Immigrants) about how federal prosecutors are dismissing immigration cases in court which renders the person seeking relief unauthorized and open to deportation. ICE, in the courthouse, can detain these immigrants.
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Today, we are sharing ICE records on Palantir that show how the company has long been enmeshed in the day-to-day operations fueling ICE surveillance and deportations. These records were obtained via a FOIA lawsuit filed in 2019. The documents include emails, training guides and progress reports between Palantir and ICE spanning 2014-2022.The records show how…
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NBC News has published this article and video , Under Trump Administration, ICE scraps paperwork officers once had to do before immigration arrests. This signals a change in the background research that ICE agents had done in the past to conduct a raid and what is now being required. Targeted arrests might be the result…
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The FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests and litigation from the Deportation Data Project has provided more publicly available government data. There is now an Immigration Enforcement Dashboard which can provides a searchable database for arrests. Soon, the dashboard functionality will expand to include detainers, detention, encounters, and removals (deportations).
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According to ICE/DHS data and reported by TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse) there are currently 181,000 people wearing Alternatives to Detention Monitors including SmartLINK (smart phone monitoring), Ankle Monitors, and Wrist Monitors. Alternatives to Detention (ATD) is used by ICE to monitor people who have been released from detention while they wait for their court…
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David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies at the CATO Institute, has written this post which lists the number of personnel that are now assisting ICE. They are from DHS (Customs and Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, USCIS) and DOJ (ATF, DEA, FBI, etc) along with state police, local law enforcement (both 287g and not 287g).…
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This blog post, from David Bier the Director of Immigration Studies at the CATO Institute in 2020, describes some erroneously-issued ICE detainers – some due to mistaken identity, some due to lack of change in immigration status in government databases.
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Global Crossing Airlines (GlobalX) is the charter company that operates the majority of ICE deportations flights. From The Guardian, this article provides an overview of flights internal to the U.S. and deportation flights to countries of origin and third countries. In addition to the data, some individual testimonials illustrate the movement of detainees within the…
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