Posted on July 14, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
ICE Chicago Field Office Director Robert Guadian sent a letter to shareholders inviting them to participate in a six-week “Citizens Academy” course on immigration enforcement. According to the letter, the program is “the first of its kind” and will “serve as a pilot for nationwide implementation.” The course would include training in “defensive tactics, firearms familiarization and targeted arrests.
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Posted on June 29, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
On June 10, a federal judge in New York ruled that the practice of making immigration arrests in and around state courthouses was illegal. The lawsuit against ICE was brought by the New York attorney general, who argued that ICE’s actions “chilled participation” in courts and disrupted hearings, as ICE would arrest people coming in for scheduled hearings. This is the second federal judge to rule against the policy; last year, a judge in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction stopping ICE from conducting arrests in or at the entry of Massachusetts courthouses..
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Posted on June 9, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
In a federal court hearing on May 27, ICE admitted that it is not testing all detainees before transferring them to other facilities. ICE policy is currently to test detainees with symptoms, which may have already led to the transfer of asymptomatic detainees. The admission was made during a hearing regarding a temporary order to reduce the detainee population in South Florida immigration detention centers. Judge Cooke clarified in the hearing that the purpose of her order was not to encourage transfers, but rather reduce the detained population to limit transmission risks. She is expected to decide whether to extend the order within seven days.
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Posted on June 9, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
On Sunday, a 34-year-old man named Santiago Baten-Oxlag, who was in ICE custody, passed away from COVID-19 complications. Before being admitted to a hospital in Columbus, Georgia, he was detained at the Stewart Detention Center, a privately-run prison. Advocates have criticized ICE for continuing to detain many immigrants who are at a higher risk for COVID-19, and for allegedly not adhering to CDC recommendations for infection prevention.
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Posted on June 9, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
NBC News recently reported that in the past several months, ICE has shuffled hundreds of people in its custody around the country, leading to COVID-19 outbreaks in facilities in four states. A group of senators sent a letter urging DHS to take immediate steps to halt the transfer of individuals in ICE custody between detention facilities and to expand COVID-19 testing at all ICE facilities. AILA endorsed the letter. Yesterday, the Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on incarceration and detention during COVID-19, during which Dr. Scott Allen, a medical subject-matter expert in detention health for the DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, gave testimony in his individual capacity to warn of the high potential for COVID-19 to spread through detention centers.
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Posted on June 9, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The past week has seen protests across the U.S. in response to George Floyd’s death and against police brutality and systemic racism. In some cities, the protests were accompanied by “riots” and “looting.” Across the U.S., some peaceful protesters have been arrested, tear-gassed, and shot with rubber bullets. Undocumented immigrants, including DACA beneficiaries, have had to grapple with these risks to protesting, in addition to the risk that an arrest could affect their immigration status. On Sunday, CBP acting Commissioner Morgan said that the agency was supporting law enforcement against “rioters,” but also said that the move was not meant to enforce immigration law. One DACA recipient and activist named Máxima Guerrero was arrested in her car while leaving a demonstration in Phoenix, and was in ICE custody for two days. After a large community outcry, she was released by ICE.
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Posted on June 9, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
NBC reports on a video showing a group of federal immigration officials detaining a protester at a George Floyd rally in New York City on Friday. One of the officials is seen wearing a vest labeled “HSI Police,” a division of ICE. According to the Immigrant Defense Project, the man who was arrested is of Puerto Rican descent, which Terry Lawson, a supervising policy attorney for the project, said “raises questions about racial profiling.”
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Posted on May 21, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Houston Chronicle features an op-ed by Roger Ernesto La O Muñoz, a Cuban asylum seeker who is currently detained in the Joe Corley Detention Facility in Conroe, Texas. As a college graduate with a degree in hygiene and epidemiology, he writes on behalf of 55 fellow detainees to send a message to the president, immigration judges, human rights organizations, and the American public that he and the other detainees find themselves “in a concentration camp with death orders from COVID-19.”
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Posted on May 11, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Acting ICE Director Matthew Albence is resisting a White House effort to install a number of political appointees at the agency that he helms. The clash is the latest in a series of battles between Albence and other top officials, as the ICE chief faces pressure from Trump administration officials who see the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to take more aggressive measures against undocumented immigrants.
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Posted on April 27, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
CBS News reports that yesterday, a federal judge in California ordered ICE to actively and rapidly review the cases of all detained immigrants at increased risk of severe illness or death if they contract the coronavirus and determine whether they should be released. Coronavirus cases among the more than 31,000 immigrants held by ICE surged to 220 on Monday, with the agency reporting 96 new cases across the country. Join the Immigration Justice Campaign in calling on Congress to demand that ICE take steps to stem the spread of COVID-19 in detention facilities.
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