Category: Executive & Enforcement
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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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CBS News reports that ICE detained fewer non-criminals since Minnesota so detention numbers are down. Read here
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New Report (4/26) from Human Rights First and RAICES about Dilley Family Prison (near El Paso, Texas).