Category: Executive & Enforcement
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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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The National Immigration Forum provides this primer on how DHS will arrest and re-vet refugees and arrived during the Biden Administration.
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Watch this video with Austin Kocker (Syracuse University) and Zain Lakhani (Women’s Refugee Commission) talking about a new report “What About My Children” which interviewed deported Honduran parents many of whom were not, as the US policy requires, allowed to decide if they wanted to be deported with or without their children.
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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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While the DoJ tried to change immigration case appeals process through the Board of Immigration Appeals, a federal judge decided that most rules needed to remain the same. An explainer by the National Immigration Project can be found here.
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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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CATO Institute reports that the US now has (full or partial) visa bans on 93 countries
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There have been 13 recent deaths of Mexicanswhile in ICE detention custody. There are over 13,700 Mexicans currently being held in US immigration detention. Read more here
Immigration Insight 