Complaint Details Coercive Tactics Used by Immigration Officials on Separated Parents and what can be done
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American Immigration Council filed a complaint with the DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) regarding DHS officials coercing parents into signing documents they may not have understood.
Posted on August 28, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner
ICE Agents Pressured Parents to Be Deported with Their Children — Then Separated Them Again When They Refused
Posted on August 7, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner
A group of fathers who were reunited with their children after being separated by ICE were then separated a second time after the fathers refused to sign paperwork to withdraw their children’s immigration cases and be deported together. It is despicable what ICE is doing. Unfortunately, they seem to have the go ahead from Trump.
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Ruling on Bail and ICE
Posted on December 4, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner
Tenth Circuit in United States v. Ailon-Ailon. The court held that a federal district court judge could not deny bail to the defendant, who was facing prosecution for illegal reentry and who was also the subject of an ICE detainer, solely due to the risk that ICE would remove him before his criminal trial, finding that in the context of the Bail Reform Act, the risk that a defendant will flee does not include the risk that ICE will involuntarily remove the defendant
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What is the U.S. coming to: 10-Year-Old Immigrant Is Detained After Agents Stop Her on Way to Surgery
Posted on October 30, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner
The New York Times reports that a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has been detained by federal immigration authorities in Texas after she passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint on her way to a hospital to undergo emergency gall bladder surgery. The girl, Rosamaria Hernandez, who was brought to the United States without documentation to live in Laredo, Texas, when she was three months old, was being transferred from a medical center in Laredo to a hospital in Corpus Christi around 2:00 am on Tuesday when Border Patrol agents stopped the ambulance she was riding in. The agents allowed her to continue to hospital but followed the ambulance the rest of the way there, then waited outside her room until she was released from the hospital.
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ICE Not Following Its Own Rules on Releasing Pregnant People
Posted on October 3, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner
There are indications that ICE has revoked a policy issued in August 2016 recommending that pregnant people “generally not be detained” and is currently detaining pregnant people “at the rate of one per day.” Cases of pregnant women being detained by ICE have been detailed in an administrative complaint filed with DHS on behalf of these women.
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Immigration Raids Are Sweeping Up More People Who Weren’t Targets
Posted on August 17, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner
TIME reports that undocumented immigrants are being swept up in immigration raids targeting their friends, neighbors, and coworkers. Under the Trump administration’s new enforcement priorities, ICE is instructed to detain and deport anyone who is in the country illegally, which means even so-called “non-targets” are ending up in custody after a raid.
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ACLU and Center for Gender and Refugee Studies Reach FOIA Settlement Agreement with ICE
Posted on August 17, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner
The ACLU and the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies reached a settlementagreement with ICE in a suit brought regarding delays in the production of information requested via FOIA on ICE’s detention of asylum seekers who are found to have a credible fear of persecution. Among other things, ICE agreed to provide an informal description of the documents withheld in their entirety and written justification for such withholding.
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