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Daniel M. Kowalski
3 days ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Groups Sue for Information on Open-Air Immigration Jails
CGRS, Mar. 15, 2024 "Al Otro Lado and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to compel the government to release information on its policies and practices at open air detention...
Daniel M. Kowalski
14 days ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
CBP Sending Chinese Graduate Students Home
Jeffrey Mervis, Science, Mar. 1, 2024 "More than a dozen Chinese graduate students holding valid U.S. visas are the latest pawns amid the rising political tensions between the two countries. In the past 3 months, students in Ph.D. science programs...
Daniel M. Kowalski
1 month ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Supreme Court (5-4) Says OK for DHS to Cut TX Razor Wire at Border
DHS v. Texas, Jan. 22, 2024 "The application to vacate injunction presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is granted. The December 19, 2023 order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, case No. 23-50869...
Daniel M. Kowalski
2 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Standoff at Shelby Park: Three Dead
On Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar filed this SUPPLEMENTAL MEMORANDUM REGARDING EMERGENCY APPLICATION TO VACATE THE INJUNCTION PENDING APPEAL with the U.S. Supreme Court. Texas fired back on Saturday, filing this reply...
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Judge rejects Texas bid to stop agents cutting border razor wire
Sareen Habeshian, Axios, Dec. 1, 2023 "Texas lawmakers' effort to block the Biden administration from removing razor wire fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border was blocked by a federal judge on Thursday. The big picture: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott...
Daniel M. Kowalski
5 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
CBP Policed 2020 George Floyd Protests
Emily Creighton, Tsion Gurmu, AIC, Sept. 21, 2023 "[A] new report publishes some of the documents uncovered in that investigation and reveals the widespread involvement and abusive enforcement tactics used by CBP during the 2020 protests. The...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ACLU to CBP: Stop Trashing Asylum Seekers’ Possessions
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Oct. 4, 2022 "For years, Border Patrol agents have trashed peoples’ documents and possessions at the border. But since the pandemic, the practice has escalated, further dehumanizing asylum seekers...
Daniel M. Kowalski
6 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Asylum Seekers Encounter a New Digital Border: Their Smartphones
Austin Kocher, Ph.D., Sept. 13, 2023 "Migrants around the world who are seeking asylum in North America and Europe are finding pathways to safety increasingly blocked—not only by physical borders but also by digital borders . The most recent...
Daniel M. Kowalski
6 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Border Patrol Violates Court Order in Arizona
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept, Aug. 28, 2023 "The U.S. Border Patrol has been detaining asylum-seekers outdoors in a deadly corner of the Arizona desert for the better part of a year — significantly longer than was previously known —...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
A Close Look at the Geography of Border Patrol Arrests: TRAC
TRAC, Aug. 15, 2023 "The Southwest Border is often represented as a single, uniform line separating the United States and Mexico. But at nearly 2,000 miles, touching four U.S. states and six Mexican states, and crossing multiple terrains and ecosystems...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Abuses at the U.S.- Mexico Border: How To Address Failures and Protect Rights
WOLA, Aug. 2, 2023 "A U.S.-Mexico border that is well governed and that also treats migrants and asylum seekers humanely can go hand in hand and should not be seen as an unattainable aspiration. For this to happen, U.S. government personnel who...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
New Lawsuit Challenges CBP One Turnback Policy
AIC, July 27, 2023 " This lawsuit challenges the federal government’s border-wide policy and practice of turning back asylum seekers without a CBP One appointment at ports of entry (POEs) along the southern border, denying them access to...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Facing an Impossible Choice: The Asylum Ban and CBP One
NIP Staff Attorney Ann Garcia writes: "The National Immigration Project and Together & Free jointly released a report on the experiences of asylum seekers in Matamoros and Reynosa two months into the Biden administration's Asylum Ban. Our...
Daniel M. Kowalski
8 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
CBP Agents Gun Down Unarmed American
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept, June 26, 2023 "Mattia pulled his hand out of his pocket. One second later, the officers and agents let loose of volley of shots — initial reports indicated as many as 38 rounds were fired. Mattia wheeled around...
Daniel M. Kowalski
8 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Glitches in the Digitization of Asylum: How CBP One Turns Migrants’ Smartphones into Mobile Borders
Austin Kocher, Ph.D., June 20, 2023 "As the emerging literature on migration studies has demonstrated, migrants who are seeking asylum around the world are increasingly finding that the process is mediated by a variety of new technologies. While...
Daniel M. Kowalski
11 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
CBP's Electronic Border Wall
Hilary Beaumont, Mar. 3, 2023, The Guardian "A new map detailing the location of hundreds of surveillance towers is providing the most comprehensive public look yet at the growing virtual wall at the United States’ southern border. The map, published...
Daniel M. Kowalski
11 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
CBP Is Expanding Its Surveillance Tower Program at the U.S.-Mexico Border–And EFF Is Mapping It
Dave Maass, EFF, Mar. 20, 2023 "To provide researchers with the tools they need to analyze the impact of U.S. border security policy, EFF is releasing a new map and dataset of more than 290 surveillance towers installed by Customs and Border Protection...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Extension for Certain Ukrainians Paroled into the United States Following Russia’s Invasion
DHS, Mar. 10, 2023 "Certain Ukrainian nationals and immediate family members were paroled into the United States last year, on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons, during an approximate eight-week period after Russia’s unprovoked...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Former CBP Agent Narrowly Escapes Deportation Himself
Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, Feb. 26, 2023 "Raul Rodriguez says he’ll never forget the moment he realized his life was built on a lie. He was so shaken that he felt the blood rushing to his feet. In a matter of seconds, a family secret had shattered...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
After Years of Tribal Resistance, DHS Finishes its “Virtual Wall” on the Tohono O’odham Nation
Todd Miller, The Border Chronicle, Sept. 1, 2022 "When I come across surveillance towers in the borderlands, I first look to see if there are any communities, towns, or houses in its view. I did this on Monday, on the Tohono O’odham Nation in the...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: CBP is NOT Handing Out Social Security Numbers to Border Crossers
Josh Kelety, Associated Press, Aug. 3, 2022 "Lara Logan, a former Fox Nation host, recently claimed that U.S. Border Patrol agents are distributing Social Security numbers to immigrants at the border. A video of her comments has circulated widely...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Does DHS Have Your Cellphone Data?
Julia Ainsley, NBC News, July 18, 2022 "The Department of Homeland Security has paid millions of dollars since 2017 to purchase, without warrants, cellphone location data from two companies to track the movements of both Americans and foreigners...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Cruelty as Border Policy: The Biden Administration Keeps in Place CBP’s “Consequence Delivery System”
Todd Miller, The Border Chronicle, Mar. 24, 2022 "In June 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a guide to determine the effectiveness and cost efficiency of the punishments meted out to unauthorized border-crossers. According to documents...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
A Pastor’s Legal Fight Against CBP Exposes a Reckless Surveillance Operation
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept, Mar. 6, 2022 "A quiet drama unfolding at the intersection of faith, surveillance, and borders, Kaji Dousa’s experience that night in San Diego began a legal fight that continues to this day. As she would later learn...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Everyday Mistreatment of Transfronterizo Commuters on the Mexico-U.S. Border: A Q&A with Borderlands Scholar Estefanía Castañeda Pérez
Todd Miller, The Border Chronicle, Mar. 3, 2022 - Crossing the border everyday brings the normalization of surveillance and interrogation, but what happens if you refuse to comply with the CBP facial recognition camera? "The data that I have collected...
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