Category: Executive & Enforcement
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40% of the border has now been designated as part of a U.S. armed services base which allows the federal government to press additional charges against migrating trespassers. In this podcast, from The Border Chronicle, you will hear Melissa del Bosque interview Sonner Kehrt and Daivd Roza, from The War Horse, talk about these National…
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This article, in the Guardian, describes the DHS wellness checks on unaccompanied minors that MVM. a firm in Ashburn Virginia, has been conducting in order for ICE to locate unaccompanied minors The MVM firm had been used at the border to transport children separated from their parents. They have been accused of torture as well…
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Interesting article here
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Read this article, at Slate.com, where a lawyer laments the lack of consistency across Immigration Judges’ decisions regarding habeas.
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Texas put its foot down when Houston limited to 30 minutes the time police needed to wait for ICE to arrive to pick up unauthorized travelers once they’d been reported. With a fear of losing budget money as well as money for the World Cup security, the Houston City Council reversed it’s original decision. Read…
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Bi-partisan rationale for why a border wall in Texas is not a good idea. Read here
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Read this article to learn how Massachusetts has allocated $5 million to provide free legal aid to immigrants in removal and a hotline for those immigrants needing representation. Read more about the process and capacity constraints.
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The Deportation Data Project provides this report from the first year of the Trump administration based on data published by the federal government
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Read the Dallas Express article here
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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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