Category: Executive & Enforcement
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An interview with the Brennan Center’s Margy O’Herron describes troubling issues with the current immigration system including the firing of 14% of the career immigration judges, the increased price to appeal an immigration case, SCOTUS allowing profiling, lack of due process and diverting cases to expedited removals.
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USAFacts provides this overview of how long it takes to become a US citizen based on different visa categories.
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Here’s a 15-minute video about immigration by Jeff Ballmer, ex-Microsoft executive. It keys off 2022 data – so a bit dated – but conceptually accurate.
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During his keynote address at a recent gala to raise money for Immigration Law and Justice of New York, Austin Kocher (a professor at Syracuse University) cites these 7 key statistics which tell the story of US immigration currently:
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Austin Kocher writes about a new report (by Human Rights Watch and Cristosal) which confirms torture of Venezuelans who were immigrants in the U.S. until they were sent to CECOT. Read the full report here
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This article describes a potential loophole in the Nlets database which allows data sharing with ICE. Source: NextGov.com Here’s more information about Nlets (Int’l Justice and Public Safety Network) a nonprofit created for data sharing across local, state, and federal law enforcement and public safety agencies.
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FACT SHEET: Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Is Dangerous – And Americans Know It Trump’s mass deportation agenda is failing America. The administration’s city-by-city, community-by-community crusade is traumatizing children, separating families, and endangering the rights and safety of all Americans. Most Americans oppose Trump’s mass deportation agenda: People understand that real public safety means smart, targeted…
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The Washington Post’s Lauren Kaori Gurley reported that “the Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.” Concerns: Immigration crackdowns are creating instability in the agricultural workforce which threatens (1) the stability of domestic food production and (2) prices for US…
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This article, by the Vera Institute of Justice, shares information about the expansion of federal Immigrant Detention in the US – both the number of facilities and the number of immigrants. This includes:
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