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Daniel M. Kowalski
5 days ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
ICE Prisoner Locator Tool Improved; Now Find CBP Prisoners Too!
As reported by El Paso immigration law superstar Taylor Levy (@taylorklevy on X) on June 6, 2024 , the ICE Online Detainee [a.k.a. "prisoner"] Locator web tool has been improved to include those prisoners " currently in CBP custody for...
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ABA Report Criticizes Widespread Electronic Monitoring of Migrants
ABA, Feb. 23, 2024 "A new report from the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration criticizes the federal government’s widespread electronic monitoring of migrants and recommends that the program be curtailed. The report, “...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
“Endless Nightmare”: Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention
Physicians for Human Rights, Feb. 6, 2024 " This report – a joint effort by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), Harvard Law School’s Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRCP), and researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) –...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Subjected Immigrants in Detention to Unnecessary Surgeries, Report Finds
Raul Pinto, Immigration Impact, Feb. 2, 2024 "The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (OIG) published a report last month finding that nearly one-third of medical procedures performed on immigrants in U.S. Immigration...
Daniel M. Kowalski
5 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
"They Treat Us Like Garbage"
Daniella Silva, NBC News, Dec. 22, 2023 "Dozens of migrants have recently been transferred to a federal detention center in Louisiana that has been the subject of years of complaints about filthy conditions and inadequate medical care, advocates...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Detained Migrants Sue ICE Over Sham Inspection
ACLU New Mexico, Nov. 8, 2023 "A group of immigrants detained in inhumane conditions at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) is suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for certifying a sham inspection in 2022...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Fails to Post Detention Data in Over a Month—Again
Austin Kocher, Ph.D., Nov. 6, 2023 "ICE’s immigrant detention numbers have been growing in recent weeks, raising concerns about the treatment of migrants under the Biden administration and the impacts on government spending. Yet the agency...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Detainer Lawsuit Filed in Las Vegas
MALDEF, Jan. 17, 2020 "Las Vegas city authorities’ policy of holding immigrants in jail after they have completed their sentences is unconstitutional, a lawsuit filed today charged. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Hold Lawsuit Settles for $14 Million
ACLU Southern California, Oct. 13, 2020 "The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today approved settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by immigrants who were unlawfully detained by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department — sometimes...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
More than 18,500 Individuals Unlawfully Detained by L.A. County Sheriff's Department Over ICE Holds to Receive Compensation from $14 Million Settlement
PRNewswire, Feb. 11, 2021 - Migrants' rights group searches for victims in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Ecuador "Individuals who were held in L.A. County jail based on ICE holds in the period from October 2010 to June 2014 may...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
A Report on Detainers: Escalating Jailhouse Immigration Enforcement
Priya Sreenivasan, Jason A. Cade, and Azadeh Shahshahani, Dec. 2021 "In January 2017, former President Trump announced Executive Order 13768, in which he pledged to expand 287(g) agreements across the country, a program that deputizes state and...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Colorado County Admits Legal Liability, Ending 5-Yr. Battle Over Illegal Imprisonment For Suspected Immigration Violations
ACLU Colorado, Mar. 17, 2023 "After five years of litigation that included a precedent-setting decision by the Colorado Supreme Court and two stops at the Court of Appeals, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office has finally compensated Saul...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
American Council on Education: ICE Student Rule "Horrifying"
Ted Mitchell, ACE, July 6, 2020 "On its face, the guidance released today by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is horrifying. While we would welcome more clarity about international students studying in the United States, this guidance...
Daniel M. Kowalski
9 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Bogus "Red Notice" Keeps Asylee in ICE Prison for Six Years
Interpol permanently deleted the bogus Red Notice. An Immigration Judge granted her asylum...twice. ICE still has her locked up. The habeas petition is here . The ACLU media release is here . Wesley Muller's Louisiana Illuminator article is here...
Daniel M. Kowalski
9 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Federal Inspectors Find 'Barbaric' Conditions in ICE Immigration Jails
Tom Dreisbach, NPR, Aug. 16, 2023 " "There is no justifiable correctional reason that required the detainee who had a mental health condition to have his clothes cut off by a female officer while he was compliant in a restraint chair. This...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Colorado Bans Local Governments From Jailing Immigrants for ICE
Alex Burness, Bolts, June 8, 2023 "Colorado this week became just the seventh U.S. state to prohibit local government agreements to detain immigrants in their jails on behalf of federal immigration authorities. House Bill 1100 , which Democratic...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE's Detention Numbers Creep Upward
TRAC, Apr. 3, 2023 "According to the latest data released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention numbers creeped upward in recent weeks while alternatives to detention numbers continue to decline. TRAC has also implemented new...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
TRAC: False Reporting by Contractor on Alternatives to Technology Activities
TRAC, Mar. 7, 2023 "What lies behind ICE’s frequent posting of Alternatives to Technology (ATD) data that the agency now admits was incorrect? The data ICE had been posting for months showed that use of GPS ankle monitors had been increasing. ...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
New Mexico Groups Call On DHS to Provide Asylum Seekers Relief From Torturous Conditions, Investigate Retaliation and Abuse at Torrance County Detention Facility
Innovation Law Lab, Mar. 1, 2023 "On February 24, 2023, Innovation Law Lab, New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, and Santa Fe Dreamers Project delivered a letter to the offices of: US Department of Homeland...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS OIG Report: Violations of Detention Standards at ICE’s Port Isabel Service Processing Center
DHS OIG, Feb. 13, 2023 "During our unannounced inspection of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Port Isabel Service Processing Center (Port Isabel) in Los Fresnos, Texas, we found that Port Isabel complied with standards for...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Habeas Victory in Colorado: Andrade de Zarate v. Choate
Andrade de Zarate v. Choate "Ms. Andrade has been in custody at the Aurora Detention Facility for over 14 months. ... Ms. Andrade claims that her detention without a bond hearing has become unconstitutionally prolonged. ... [T]he Court finds that...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
ICE Posts Wrong Numbers on Alternatives to Detention (ATD) Monitoring: TRAC
TRAC, Dec. 14, 2022 "ICE has informed TRAC that Alternatives to Detention (ATD) data previously released by the agency on several occasions between August 2022 and December 2022, as well as data previously released for FY 2022, was inaccurate....
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
You've Never Seen ICE Force-Feed a Prisoner...Until Now
Travis Mannon, José Olivares, The Intercept, Nov. 15, 2022 "In an exclusive video, a hunger striker is force-fed in ICE detention — lifting the veil of secrecy on a practice condemned by medical ethicists."
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Report: Women in Georgia ICE Jail Underwent "Unnecessary Gynecological Procedures"
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, Nov. 15, 2022 "A congressional investigation into medical abuse allegations that garnered national attention in 2020 found that some immigrant women held by U.S. immigration officials at a Georgia detention center...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Lawmakers Call for Closure of ICE Jail in NM
Phaedra Haywood, Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 21, 2022 "U.S. senators from California and Massachusetts have joined New Mexico Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján in calling for the closure of a Torrance County immigration detention center. The...
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