Posted on November 13, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Special Response Team, a division of ICE, startled residents in Queens when it drove through the streets in an armored military vehicle called a BearCat. The vehicle was not being used for an immigration operation at this time. The Special Response Team was investigating a firearms suspect. Still, some fear that this was a show of force, and are concerned with an immigration organization possessing this type of military vehicles.
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Posted on October 8, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Surveillance Age
The New York Times Magazine reports on ICE’s quiet embrace of big data, profiling the agency’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants in a Pacific Northwest community. Analysis of government-procurement records, interviews, and documents obtained via public-records requests reveals new evidence of surveillance of detainees’ voice and video calls at ICE facilities and extensive proof that the agency relies on state DMV databases and information products like Thomson Reuters’s CLEAR, short for Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting, to target immigrants.
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Posted on October 8, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Posted on August 20, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
DHS conducted what is reportedly the largest single-state worksite enforcement raid in U.S. history. According to the Clarion Ledger, local Mississippi schools were on standby to help children whose parents were among the 680 individuals arrested.
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Posted on April 15, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
In Padilla v. ICE, the court issued a preliminary injunction requiring the government to provide certain detained asylum seekers with a bond hearing within seven days of a bond hearing request and to release those individuals whose detention time exceeds that limit.
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Posted on December 24, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Insider reports on Peter Brown, a U.S. citizen born in Philadelphia, who was held by Florida’s Monroe County Sheriff’s Office on an ICE detainer and told he would soon be transferred to a prison in Jamaica, a country he had only visited once on a cruise
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Posted on December 24, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
In compliance with congressional requirements described in the FY2018 DHS Appropriations Bill, ICE has provided reports regarding in-custody detainee deaths beginning in FY2018. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, the ACLU, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and Detention Watch Network, “More people died in immigration detention in fiscal year 2017 than any year since 2009” and immigration detainee deaths are “linked to dangerously inadequate medical care.”
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Posted on November 29, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The number of immigrant children in federal custody has reached an all-time high. As the length of time these children remain in government facilities grows longer, the number of children in custody will likely continue to rise.
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Posted on November 29, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
An autopsy released yesterday shows that Roxsana Hernández, a Honduran trans woman who died in ICE custody, was likely physically abused at a privately operated ICE detention center before she died of untreated dehydration. ICE announced yesterday that Mergensana Amar, a Russian man who attempted suicide at an ICE detention center earlier this month, passed away on Saturday after he was removed from life support.
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Posted on October 15, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
USA Today reports on an unannounced inspection of the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, operated by the GEO Group. In its report, the DHS Office of the Inspector General identified serious violations, including improper use of disciplinary segregation, guards ignoring the presence of more than a dozen nooses fashioned out of bedsheets, and inadequate medical care.
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