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Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Organizations Reach Settlement in Case Brought to Protect Medically Vulnerable People Detained by ICE
NWIRP, May 30, 2023 "The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington approved a settlement agreement today in Favela Avendaño v. Bostock, a case brought in 2020 by Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP), the American Civil Liberties...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
COVID-19 and Immigration Detention
Caitlin Patler, PhD, Jackie Gonzalez, JD, Hamid Yazdan Panah, JD, Immigration Initiative at Harvard, Feb. 2021 "The COVID-19 pandemic exposes a federal immigration detention system of imprisonment without trial that has long failed to properly...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Detention COVID-19 Practices Violate Law: Report
Physicians for Human Rights, Jan. 12, 2021 - Praying for Hand Soap and Masks "The harsh and punitive conditions reported in this study show that ICE practices did not comply with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance or with ICE’s...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Detention Contributed 245K COVID-19 Cases
Detention Watch Network, Dec. 2020 "Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) failed pandemic response substantially increased the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., according to Hotbeds of Infection: How ICE Detention Contributed to the...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
"Straight Up Dishonesty" - Judge Orders ICE to Depopulate Adelanto
Read Judge Hatter's Oct. 15, 2020 Order here , especially pages 2-3: "The Court has been concerned for some time with the lack of candor exhibited by the Government and its counsel in this case. Counsel for Petitioners-Plaintiffs have, also,...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Immigrant Detention and COVID-19: How a Pandemic Exploited and Spread through the US Immigrant Detention System
Donald Kerwin, Center for Migration Studies of New York, Aug. 2020 "This report reviews US detention developments from March 1 to August 1, 2020, a period when COVID-19 established itself and spread through the sprawling US detention system and...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Judge Orders ICE To Free Detained Immigrant Children Because Of COVID-19
Vanessa Romo, NPR, June 26, 2020 "Citing the unrelenting spread of the coronavirus, a federal judge has ordered that all children currently held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody for more than 20 days must be released by July...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Immigration Detention and Release Policies Fatally Flawed
Donald Kerwin, May 2, 2020 "In late March, I argued in an earlier version of this paper that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should immediately embark on an aggressive program of release, supervised release and alternative-to-detention...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Immigrant Detention, COVID-19, and Opportunities for Action
Caitlin Patler, PhD, University of California, Davis; Altaf Saadi, MD MSc, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Hamid Yazdan Panah, JD, Immigrant Defense Advocates, April 2020 "Conditions of confinement in immigrant detention...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
A Long Time Coming: How the Immigration Bond and Detention System Created Today’s COVID-19 Tinderbox
Hafsa S. Mansoor (J.D. ’20) & Katherine Comly (J.D. ’20), Under Supervision of Professor Lori A. Nessel, Seton Hall University School of Law | Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic, Apr. 20, 2020 "Immigrants detained by Immigration...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Advocates Ask Colo. Gov. Polis to Address Immigration Detention
AILA, American Immigration Council, RMIAN, Apr. 13, 2020 "As your administration works to address the crisis created by the coronavirus in Colorado, we write to urge you to take any and all steps possible to compel an orderly but significant reduction...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Settlement Places Strict Limits on ICE Detention at ICA-Farmville
NIPNLG, July 6, 2022 "Today, a settlement agreement on claims for injunctive relief was reached in Santos Garcia et al. v. Wolf et al. , a case filed by the National Immigration Project (NIPNLG), Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC), and Gibson,...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Groundbreaking COVID-19 Settlement to Yield Protections for Immigrants Detained by ICE, Limit Re-detention for People Released
LCCRSF, Jan. 27, 2022 "Immigrants detained by ICE during the COVID-19 pandemic in two California detention facilities have reached a groundbreaking settlement agreement to resolve a long-running class action lawsuit against ICE and GEO, a private...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
ICE, Detention, COVID & GEO: Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings
CA9, Feb. 18, 2021, Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings "Plaintiffs, civil immigration detainees housed at Mesa Verde Detention Facility and Yuba County Jail (collectively, the Facilities), filed a class petition for writ of habeas corpus, and a class complaint...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Order on Motion to Enforce in Fraihat COVID PI
Elizabeth Jordan writes: "I am pleased to report that we, along with co-counsel SPLC, DRA, Orrick, and Willkie, just got the attached order on our motion to enforce our Fraihat COVID preliminary injunction . We are working on developing guidance...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
ICE COVID-19 Prisoner Protocol (Aug. 12, 2020)
ICE, Aug. 12,2020 "How does ICE screen new detainees for COVID-19? Effective June 4, 2020, ICE tests all new detainees who arrive at ICE-owned facilities for COVID-19 during the intake screening process. ICE houses all new arrivals separately...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
ICE Detention in Fla. Violates 5th, 8th Amendments: Gayle v. Meade
Gayle v. Meade "The Petitioners in this case are 34 immigrant detainees. Petitioners claim that they are housed at one of three immigration detention centers in Florida: the Krome Detention Center in Miami (“Krome”), the Broward Transitional Center...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Court Orders Custody Review of ICE Prisoners at Risk for C19
SPLC, Apr. 20, 2020 "A federal judge today ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to promptly revisit custody determinations, including consideration of release for all persons in ICE detention whose age or health conditions place them...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Groups Sue ICE Over Detained Immigrants in Texas
MALDEF, Apr. 15, 2020 "Civil rights groups are suing the federal government seeking the release of medically vulnerable immigrants held at three Texas detention centers, according to a lawsuit filed today. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Habeas Petition Filed in Colorado: Codner v. Choate
RMIAN, Arnold & Porter, NIPNLG, Apr. 14, 2020 " Medically-Vulnerable Immigrants Detained by ICE in Aurora, Colorado Seek Immediate Release Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic Detained Individuals File Urgent Petition for Release from Detention Center...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Ten Freed From Immigration Jail by Court Order: Thakker v. Doll
ACLU, Mar. 31, 2020 "A federal court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, ruled today that federal immigration authorities must immediately release the ten people who sued for their release and who remain in detention in three county facilities in the...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Another Judge Orders Release of ICE Prisoners: Coronel v. Decker
Coronel v. Decker "Petitioners bring this writ of habeas corpus and complaint seeking immediate release from the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). For the reasons that follow, the Court GRANTS their motion for a temporary restraining...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
COVID-19 Habeas Victory in NY/NJ: Basank v. Decker
Josh Gerstein, Politico, Mar. 26, 2020 "A federal judge in New York City has ordered the immediate release from detention of 10 immigrants whose attorneys said they were at increased risk of illness from coronavirus due to underlying health conditions...