Posted on December 2, 2016 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
CBP announced that it is setting up a temporary holding facility adjacent to the Donna-Rio Bravo International Bridge in Donna, Texas, to provide additional capacity for unaccompanied children and family units in CBP custody at Ports of Entry and U.S. Border Patrol stations in the South Texas area. The temporary site can currently hold up to 500 people, but CBP stated that it will regularly assess whether to expand this facility or keep it operational based on the number of people arriving in the area.
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Posted on September 19, 2016 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
An equally divided en banc First Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, holding that the bar to bonded release found in the detention mandate in INA §236(c) applies only to those specified criminal undocumented immigrants whom the Attorney General took into custody when they were released from criminal custody. The court concluded that the two petitioners were not taken into immigration custody when they were released from criminal custody, because they had been released from criminal custody years before their immigration custody began. As a result, the court found that the detention mandate did not bar either petitioner from seeking release on bond pursuant to the Attorney General’s discretionary release authority.
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Posted on August 11, 2016 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
NBCNews reports that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has filed a FOIA lawsuit against ICE to obtain the release of government records regarding arrests in early 2016 of Central American immigrants in Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas. SPLC believes the records will show how and why ICE pursued the 121 women and children who were arrested and placed in a Dilley, Texas, family detention center; all but 12 families were deported. “There are serious questions about whether ICE agents’ conduct during these raids violated the Constitution,” stated Lisa Graybill, Deputy Legal Director for SPLC. “We cannot allow ICE, the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, to avoid accountability and violate the federal law by withholding these records.”
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Posted on August 8, 2016 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
In a decision issued yesterday, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s Bivens action against various government officials, holding that no Bivensremedy is available to a plaintiff who claims that immigration officials unconstitutionally prolonged his detention. The plaintiff had been ordered removed, and although ICE does not effectuate removals to Cuba, he remained in ICE custody for an amount of time greatly exceeding the 90-day statutory period for removal, from November 25, 2008, until October 21, 2009.
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Posted on November 30, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
An article in the New York Times discusses ICE’s use of ankle monitors as a condition of release for women detained in family detention centers. According to the article, federal officials say that using ankle monitors is an economical alternative to detention. Advocates, however, argue that the monitors are stigmatizing as well as unnecessary.
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Posted on November 30, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
ICE issued standard operating procedures (SOPs) establishing minimum legal access and legal visitation standards applicable to all ICE Family Residential Centers (FRCs) that are active and operational. The SOPs include information on a pre-screening requirement for the designation of legal visitors and independent medical experts, visits by legal representatives and legal assistants, legal visitation hours, pre-representation meetings, legal visitation privacy, dedicated workspace, materials provided to residents by legal representatives, a pro bono list and resident sign-up, and attorney-client group legal meetings.
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Posted on November 3, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The government to comply with U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee’s July 24, 2015, ruling concerning the inhumane detention of mothers and children fleeing violence and persecution. In a press release, the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Projectnoted the government’s noncompliance with the ruling, and called on the government to “immediately cease [the] abhorrent practice” of family detention. The CARA Project also provided a fact sheet on the Flores litigation, covering key points from Judge Gee’s ruling, and discussing what is likely to happen next in the case.
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Posted on September 26, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
A Transactional Records Access Clearing House (TRAC) report finds that detainer use by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has declined, with the latest data showing that ICE issued 7,993 detainers in April 2015—30% fewer than in October 2014. However, according to the data, only 32% of individuals on whom detainers were placed during April 2015 had been convicted of a crime, and only 19% had a felony conviction. Fully two-thirds had no criminal conviction of any type, in sharp contrast to ICE’s announced plan to detain only individuals who have been “convicted of specifically enumerated [serious] crimes.
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Posted on August 31, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
On Friday, August 21, 2015, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee issued an order in Flores v. Johnson, ruling that children should generally be released from family detention within five days—preferably to a parent, including a parent with whom they were apprehended. The government must implement the court’s ruling by October 23, 2015.
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Posted on August 5, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Flores v. Johnson that should signal the end of the mass incarceration of children and mothers seeking asylum in the United States. Judge Gee found that the government materially breached the Flores settlement agreement, which requires that children in temporary custody be housed in safe, sanitary, non-secure, and licensed facilities. She granted the plaintiffs’ motion to enforce the agreement, and ordered the government to show cause why children and their accompanying parents should not be released.
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