Immigration
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Quarterly Investor Risk Briefs for Private Prison Companies Geo Group and CoreCivic
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The Hill: Trump has exposed the dangers buried in our immigration laws
Just over one year into his second term, Trump continues to exploit long-standing legal loopholes to fulfill his immigration agenda.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
1. Trump has exposed the dangers buried in our immigration law It would be comforting to believe that what we are witnessing in U.S. immigration policy is simply the product of one man’s authoritarian impulses. It would also be wrong. President Trump did not invent the machinery now driving mass detention and unchecked arrests. Like…
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Dispatches from Detention: Detained at a School Bus Stop
For more than thirty years, David did exactly what the United States government asked of him.
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Michelin v. Warden of Moshannaon Valley Corr. Ctr: Securing equal access to justice for detained immigrants
Third Circuit holds that immigrants can recover attorneys’ fees in successful habeas corpus suits.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
1. Life for immigrant families in detention: sick children, no doctors They stole a few hours sleep under glaring LED lights, crowded in by dozens of other detainees. They shivered through fevers and flus and prayed deadlier diseases weren’t stalking their confines. Then, just as they feared their confinement would linger indefinitely, they were released.…
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Investigative Post: ICE Now Targeting Afghans, Rule Followers
Investigative Post reports that ICE has begun arresting asylum seekers at their mandated check-in appointments and has significantly increased enforcement actions against Afghan nationals across Western New York. Federal lawsuits filed over the past month describe asylum seekers with pending court hearings being instructed to report to ICE offices, only to be detained despite being…
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Attorney: Pregnant Woman Deported from Atlanta Despite Medical Distress
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a Colombian woman who is eight months pregnant was put on a deportation flight at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport Wednesday afternoon despite being in medical distress. Zharick Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, 21, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in November seeking asylum but was deported under an expedited removal process over an alleged gang…
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CNN En Español: The US deports a Colombian woman who is eight months pregnant and had applied for asylum
CNN En Español reports that on Wednesday, the U.S. government deported Zharik Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, a 21-year-old Colombian woman who is eight months pregnant and arrived at the Texas border in November seeking asylum with her mother and siblings. Her deportation proceeded despite a habeas corpus petition alleging she was in a medical emergency and…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Immigration Officers Assert Sweeping Power to Enter Homes Without a Judge’s Warrant, Memo Says Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits
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Louisiana Illuminator: ACLU says Pregnant Immigrant in Medical Distress Deported through Atlanta Airport
The Louisiana Illuminator reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials placed a 21-year-old asylum seeker, Zharick Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, who is eight months pregnant, on a deportation flight on Wednesday afternoon, even though she was in medical distress. According to her attorneys at the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana and the Robert &…
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Jezebel: ICE Is Rushing to Deport a Woman Who’s Eight Months Pregnant
Jezebel reports that Zharick Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, a 21-year-old woman who is eight months pregnant and in need of emergency medical assistance, is being held in an Atlanta airport while awaiting deportation to Colombia. Ortiz and her mother fled to the United States after her father was killed for speaking out against corruption in their…
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