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Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
American Citizen Sues ICE for Unlawful Detention
NWIRP, June 11, 2021 "Today, Carlos Rios, a citizen of the United States since 2000, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seeking compensation for...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Schedules Dallas-Born U.S. Citizen for Deportation Hearing
Obed Manuel, Dallas Morning News, Oct. 15, 2019 "It may be more than a full calendar year before the U.S. government confirms what Francisco Galicia has been saying since June -- that he’s a U.S. citizen. The Dallas-born 18-year-old high school...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
American Citizen Imprisoned by ICE for Three Weeks in Texas
Obed Manuel, Dallas Morning News, July 22, 2019 "An 18-year-old Dallas-born U.S. citizen has been in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for more than three weeks, his attorney says. Now...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 6 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Caught on Camera Racially Profiling Latino USC in Oregon; Members of Congress Seek Apology, Answers
Everton Bailey Jr., Oregonian, Sept. 21, 2017 - "Two Oregon lawmakers are calling for a federal investigation into the conduct of immigration agents who mistakenly approached a Latino man, demanded his name without identifying themselves and claimed...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 6 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Arrests, Detains Another American Citizen - Are You Next?
Paloma Esquivel and James Queally, Los Angeles Times, May 26, 2017 - "[A]s she tried to leave the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, Plascencia said she was met by immigration enforcement agents, handcuffed and placed in the back of...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 8 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
$20K Settlement for American Citizen Locked Up By ICE: Ocampo v. Harrington
NIJC, May 2, 2016 - "A U.S. citizen arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at his home in 2012 and held in immigration detention for seven days has been awarded $20,000 in damages as part of an agreed judgment entered by a federal...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 8 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
U.S. Citizen Released After 18 Months in Houston Immigration Jail
Jacqueline Stevens, Jan. 18, 2016 - "On January 5, 2016, Lorenzo Palma, with a lawyer finally by his side (Nashville-based civil rights attorney Andrew Free ), won his release from the Houston CCA immigration jail. Ever since immigration judge Saul...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Locking Up Hundreds of US Citizens in Recent Years; Chicago Case Suggests ICE Obstruction of Justice
"Data recently released by the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) responsive to my FOIA request shows ICE today still is holding US citizens from days to years prior to their cases being terminated or closed. Preliminary analysis of...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against ICE Over Illegal Detention of American Citizens
"Seeking to end the government’s practice of placing immigration holds on individuals without probable cause, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU/SC), the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON), and the law firm...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Still Detaining and Deporting US Citizens, And Still Lying About It
Prof. Jacqueline Stevens continues her one-woman campaign for justice: "On June 7, 2013 an immigration judge terminated deportation proceedings for a 54 year old United States citizen who had been locked up without a lawyer for 14 months, one of...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
American Citizens: Bycatch in ICE Detainer Dragnets?
"Local law enforcement officials detained more than 800 U.S. citizens at the request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over a four-year period, according to an analysis of ICE statistics released by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
U.S. Citizen, Wrongfully Deported by ICE, Wins Partial Court Victory
"[T]he Court holds that a United States citizen with a diminished mental capacity who has been detained without probable cause, who the federal agents know claims to be a U.S. citizen, whose claim of citizenship is not investigated, whose claim is...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Family Values on ICE: The Deportation of Parents of U.S.-Born Citizens
"I am pleased to present the following report, "Deportation of Parents of U.S.-Born Citizens" for the second half of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, as prepared by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." - John Morton, Mar. 26, 2012...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
NYT soft-pedals arrests, deportations of Americans by ICE
I guess it depends on how you define 'recent.' - Prof. Jacqueline Stevens, Dec. 14, 2011 .
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Immigration enforcement snares American citizens in L.A. County, group says
"U.S. citizens have been illegally detained throughout Los Angeles County as a result of the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program, a coalition of civil and immigrant rights groups said Wednesday. The American Civil Liberties Union...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
American citizens snared in ICE's deportation dragnet
"A growing number of United States citizens have been detained under Obama administration programs intended to detect [unauthorized] immigrants who are arrested by local police officers." - New York Times, Dec. 14, 2011 .
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
A jury found him to be a U.S. citizen; ICE deported him anyway
"In next year's Statistical Yearbook and press releases, Esteban Tiznado-Reynes' deportation Tuesday morning from the Florence Service Processing Center to Mexico will be used to show Immigration and Custom Enforcement's (ICE) efficacy...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
U.S. citizenship no defense against deportation threat
"A Minneapolis man was arrested and illegally detained for 43 days by federal immigration agents who sought to have him deported even though he is a U.S. citizen, according to a lawsuit filed recently in federal court in Minneapolis. Federal...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Are there rogue ICE agents in Santa Fe?
Does it really take 13 days for ICE to figure out a simple citizenship claim? Judge for yourselves. Read the Morton Memo , the lawyer's blog , the blogger's blog , and the news article . We link; you decide!
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Another U.S. citizen arrested, jailed, almost deported by ICE
"Emilio René Pincheira Dennett was still asleep at about 6 a.m. one morning in September when agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, armed with guns and rifles, knocked on the door of the Santa Fe house he shares with his parents...
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