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Daniel M. Kowalski
10 days ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Deporting Venezuelans to Mexico
Austin Fisher, Source NM, Apr. 18, 2024 "A man from Venezuela who said he fled kidnapping and torture in his home country has been held in federal immigration custody in New Mexico for nearly six months. Now, he’s watching Immigration and...
Daniel M. Kowalski
2 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
2 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
2 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
3 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
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Senator Calls For Closure of NM CoreCivic Immigration Jail
Austin Fisher, Source NM, Dec. 8, 2023 "When human waste flooded part of a U.S. immigration prison in central New Mexico last month, guards ordered incarcerated people to clean it up with their bare hands and put them in solitary confinement when...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Private Prison Firms Set To Cash In On Immigrant Surveillance Boom
The Lever, Dec. 8, 2023 "As the country’s immigration agency ponders a significant expansion of its vast, troubled immigrant surveillance regime, private prison companies are telling investors that the proposal could bring significant profits...
Daniel M. Kowalski
5 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
5 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
6 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Family Separation Class Action Settlement: Ms. L. v. ICE
DOJ, Oct. 16, 2023 "On Oct. 16, the United States reached a settlement in Ms. L., et al. v. ICE, et al. , a class action litigation filed in 2018 seeking injunctive relief relating to the separation of parents and children at the southwest border...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
British Film Director and Others Sue L.A. County Sheriff Over Illegal Detention, 'ICE Holds'
"British film director Duncan Roy is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff after, he claims, he became 'lost' in the prison system for three months - with no option to post bail and no legal recourse. The director was caught in what the LA...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
California Attorney General: ICE Holds ('Detainers') Not Mandatory
"California's state and local law enforcement agencies can choose whether to place immigration holds on individuals at the request of federal agents, the state's attorney general has advised. California Attorney General Kamala Harris issued...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
San Francisco D.A. George Gascón: ICE Holds Have Chilling Effect
"In my 30 years in law enforcement, I have often witnessed the unintended consequences of well-meaning but poorly developed public safety policies. Few have had as profound an impact on our constitutional rights as the widespread use of immigration...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Few ICE Detainers Target Serious Criminals
"Very timely case-by-case data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) show that no more than 14 percent of the "detainers" issued by the government in FY 2012 and the first four months of FY 2013 met the agency's stated goal...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Philly Says 'No' to ICE Holds (Detainers)
"POLICY REGARDING U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENCY DETAINER REQUESTS WHEREAS, immigrants make significant contributions to every facet of The City of Philadelphia’s economic, educational and cultural life; and WHEREAS, the...
Daniel M. Kowalski
7 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
7 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ACLU Report: Cal. Prisons Sweep Americans Toward Deportation
ACLU, Aug. 29, 2023 "The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) systematically, and illegally, discriminates against immigrants, refugees, and anyone who prison officials suspect is born outside of the United States, a major...
Daniel M. Kowalski
8 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Advocates Submit Federal Complaint Regarding Ongoing Human Rights Violations at Torrance County NM Immigration Jail
Las Americas, Aug. 21, 2023 " This week, the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center (NMILC), Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center (LAIAC), Innovation Law Lab, and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico (ACLU-NM) submitted a complaint to the...
Daniel M. Kowalski
8 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
8 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
More ICE FOIA Follies: From Minimalism to Maximalism, A Path Forward
Andrew Free, Aug. 4, 2023 "... As fun as the idea of FOIA lawsuits might be for requestors in the abstract, the reality of suing ICE and DHS FOIA agencies in federal court is often painful, slow, and demeaning. That’s by design. We learned...
Daniel M. Kowalski
9 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
More ICE FOIA Follies: ICE FOIA Switches from Email, eFOIA Xpress to Deloitte SecureRelease(TM)
R. Andrew Free, July 27, 2023 "Deloitte Who? ICE FOIA Office Uses Deloitte SecureRelease Platform to Claim It Has No Records on Deloitte SecureRelease Platform Contract Some of ICE FOIA responses border on performance art. It is only in those...
Daniel M. Kowalski
10 months 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 arrests former Salvadoran Army officer in New Jersey accused in El Mozote massacre case in El Salvador
DHS, Apr. 6, 2023 "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers with the assistance of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents arrested a Salvadoran national on April 4 for assisting or...
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
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...
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