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Biden nominates Texas sheriff to lead ICE

Posted on July 1, 2021 by sethlerner1964

The White House announced that President Biden will nominate Ed Gonzalez, a sheriff from Texas and critic of the Trump administration’s deportation policies, to lead ICE. ICE has not had a permanent leader since 2017, with six acting successors never receiving confirmation from the Senate. DHS Secretary Mayorkas said of Gonzalez, “With a distinguished career in law enforcement and public service, Sheriff Gonzalez is well-suited to lead ICE as the agency advances our public safety and homeland security mission.” Biden has vowed to reform ICE, specifically by directing the agency to prioritize deporting recent border crossers, those with aggravated felonies, and those who pose a threat to national security.

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ICE and CBP to stop using the term ‘illegal alien’ referring to immigrants.

Posted on July 1, 2021 by sethlerner1964

On Monday, two federal government memos were issued stating that U.S. immigration enforcement agencies will no longer use the term “illegal alien” in official communications to refer to immigrants in the country. Specifically, ICE and CBP will discontinue the use of words “alien,” “illegal alien,” and “assimilation” from internal policy documents and communications with the public. Immigrant advocates have long condemned the use of these terms as a dehumanizing effort to draw a distinction between immigrants without the means to explore legal avenues of migration.

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ICE Provides Updated FAQs on Sensitive Locations and Courthouse Arrests Policy

Posted on May 12, 2021 by sethlerner1964

Following the recent issuance of new guidance limiting ICE and CBP civil enforcement actions in or near courthouses, ICE updated its FAQs on sensitive locations and courthouse arrests.

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LexisNexis signs massive contract with ICE to give personal information.

Posted on April 26, 2021 by sethlerner1964

LexisNexis signed a $16.8 million contract to provide ICE with personal information on immigrants. The contract comes less than two years after the company claimed it was “not working with [ICE] to build data infrastructure to assist their efforts.” Mijente, a Latinx advocacy organization, shared LexisNexis’ Feb. 25 ICE contract revealing the company would provide DHS investigators access to billions of records that contain personal data from public and private sources. These sources include credit history, bankruptcy records, license plate image and cellular subscriber information.

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DHS extends flexibility in requirements related to Form I-9 compliance.

Posted on April 5, 2021 by sethlerner1964

ICE announced that it has extended the flexibilities in rules related to Form I-9, the Employment Eligibility Verification form, compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic until May 31, 2021. The current extension includes guidance for employees hired on or after April 1, 2021, and work exclusively in a remote setting due to COVID related precautions. Those employees are temporarily exempt from physical inspection requirements associated with the I-9, until they undertake non-remote work on a regular, consistent, or predictable basis.

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New ICE memo sets different priorities for agency.

Posted on March 3, 2021 by sethlerner1964

ICE issued a new memo dictating the grounds for which people can be deported for the next 90 days. Officers will need preapproval from a senior manager before trying to deport anyone who is not a recent border crosser, a national security threat, or a criminal offender with an aggravated felony conviction. Republicans criticized the measure, and the party’s members on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees sent a letter to the Secretary of DHS expressing “serious concerns” with the memo. DHS officials said the new rules do not exempt anyone from enforcement or deportation but rather provide directions to ICE officers.

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Deportation of Africans cancelled after reports of torture by ICE

Posted on February 22, 2021 by sethlerner1964

A plane carrying African asylum seekers due to take off from Alexandria, Louisiana was cancelled with minutes to spare after advocacy groups published affidavits by detainees of torture by ICE agents. The affidavits listed violent tactics that ICE officials used to pressure detainees to submit to deportation, including choking, beating, and forcing the asylum seekers to agree to expulsion by threatening them placement in Covid-19 wards. ICE cancelled the deportation “to allow any potential victims or witnesses an opportunity to be interviewed,” and it “will conduct an agency review of recent use-of-force reports related to individuals on this flight.” ICE was accused of similar abuse in October, but denied the claims and did not change its policy of accelerated deportations.

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DHS Extends Flexibility in Requirements Related to Form I-9 Compliance

Posted on February 19, 2021 by sethlerner1964

DHS Extends Flexibility in Requirements Related to Form I-9 Compliance.

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ICE Defies Biden, Deports El Paso Massacre Witness, Hundreds of Others

Posted on February 5, 2021 by sethlerner1964

NBC News reports that President Biden is continuing to unravel the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies but has been unable to stop the deportation of hundreds of people, including a woman who witnessed the 2019 anti-Latino mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart store. An early Biden executive order placing a 100-day moratorium on deportations until an enforcement review could be done was suspended by a federal judge in response to a Texas lawsuit. But the ruling didn’t require ICE to schedule deportations. 

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Rescheduling of USCIS Interviews and Other COVID-19 Updates

Posted on January 24, 2021 by sethlerner1964

COVID-19-related news, ICE announced an extension of flexibilities in rules related to Form I-9 compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic until January 31, 2021.

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