NIJC, Sept. 20, 2024 "The U.S. government spends over three billion a year on the largest immigration detention apparatus in the world to detain and deport people who have lived in the U.S. for...
Heritage Foundation v. DHS "In this Freedom of Information Act case, Plaintiffs seek the disclosure by the Department of Homeland Security of certain immigration records relating to the Duke of...
In pending litigation in federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, USCIS Asylum Division Chief John L. Lafferty provided this sworn declaration dated July 26, 2024.
IRHTP, PLS, Sept. 2024 "Consistent complaints over the last twenty-five years reveal a disturbing pattern of systemic abuse and mistreatment of ICE detainees at Plymouth County Correctional Facility...
DHS, Sept. 24, 2024 "Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, in consultation with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, designated Qatar into the Visa Waiver Program (VWP)....
"The Texas DPS chief on Friday asked federal agents to review the deaths of two Guatemalan immigrants, killed last week when a state trooper opened fire on a smuggling vehicle near La Joya. The Texas Rangers will hand over their investigation to federal agents upon completion, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw. McCraw said he asked the FBI and Justice Department to conduct an independent investigation into the Oct. 25 shooting by a trooper in a helicopter. ... [Texas State Legislator] Sid Miller, R-Stephenville, said Friday he had spoken to McCraw and saw no need for a policy review. “I can't find anyplace or anywhere protocol wasn't followed,” Miller told the Associated Press on Friday. “Looks like everything was done according to DPS policy. It's unfortunate some people died, but I guess the lesson is: Don't be running from the law." - Lynn Brezosky and Jason Buch, San Antonio Express-News, Nov. 3, 2012.
"In 2010, an Express-News analysis of DPS data found DPS troopers regularly engage in aggressive pursuit tactics prohibited by most law enforcement agencies, including firing guns at fleeing vehicles. Over a five-year period, the data revealed DPS chases resulted in 1,300 wrecks, 780 injuries to troopers, other law enforcement officers, suspects and bystanders, 28 deaths and an estimated $8.4 million in property damage. The chases were concentrated along the Texas-Mexico border, where drug and human smugglers try to evade arrest." - San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board, Oct. 31, 2012.