Category: Detention
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A judge in California has declared that recent ICE sweeps are made without reasonable suspicion. The story, in CalMatters, explains the details.
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This ProPublica article explains that parents of 11,000 American citizen children have been detained.
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This report, from the Migration Policy Institute, discusses a variety of federal immigration policies that are getting varying degrees of push-back from federal courts. Those policies include the following:
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This article describes a recent decision in Nevada that overturned DHS policy of mandatory detention for all unauthorized immigrants (without bond) despite having been in the country for many years. This is contrary to an appeals decision that upheld the mandatory detention policy.
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The Guardian reports that the use of Ankle Monitors as ATD (Alternatives to Detention) have doubled in the past year (from 24,000 to 42,000 people) .
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This article by NBC News reports that ICE has been relying on an erroneously-issued internal ICE memo to make courthouse arrests nationwide. The memo and poicy has been reversed.
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ProPublica published this article which states that 11.000 American children have been separated from their parents because of ICE arrests.
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This article reports TRAC data that shows 71% of immigrant detainees have no criminal convictions and many of those with criminal convictions are for minor offenses including traffic violations.
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Listen to the 1-hour podcast On With Kara Swisher called “Inside the ICE Detention Boom: Soaring Abuse Claims and Little Oversight” where she interviews Ximena Bustillo, Homeland Security Department and immigration policy correspondent for NPR; Austin Kocher, a political and legal geographer and a research assistant professor at the Syracuse University who tracks immigra-tion enforcement…
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