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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This recent zoom, from Immigration Law and Justice Network and Women United in Faith, has two parts:
- describes the two national legal cases (Noem vs. Al Otro Lado and RAICES vs. Noem), and
- interviews Lety, Diego, Isaac, and Claudia who are unable to enter the U.S. and seek asylum – so are waiting in Northern Mexico.
Read more about Noem vs. Al Otro Lado here.
- It challenges the metering/turnback policy at the Ports of Entry at the southern border.
Read more about RAICES vs. Noem here
- It challenges the shut down of asylum applications at the southern border.
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The Migration Policy Institute provides this short overview of third country deportations and calculates that about 14,000 deportations to third countries (12,000 of those to Mexico) have occurred during 2025.
It describes the four different kinds of agreements that the U.S. has signed with each of the 27 different countries who have agreed to take third country deportees:
- Safe Third Country – asylum-seekers will not be incarcerated or removed to dangerous other countries and will have the opportunity to apply for asylum and relocate.
- Deportation Bridge Agreement – asylum-seekers will be held (sometimes in detention) until they can be removed to their country of origin or another country
- Incarceration Agreement – asylum-seekers will be held without access to protection (ex. Venezuelans sent to CECOT and incarcerated)
- Hybrid Agreement – some combination of the above
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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.
