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Daniel M. Kowalski
3 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
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 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
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 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Does Not Adequately Track Segregation at Immigration Detention Facilities: DHS OIG Report
Kylie Bielby, Homeland Security Today, Oct. 18, 2021 "An audit by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not always comply with segregation reporting requirements and did not ensure...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Administration Ends Requirement That Information on Migrant Children, Sponsors Be Shared with ICE
Austin Landis, Spectrum News, Mar. 12, 2021 "On Friday, the Biden administration officially ended an information sharing agreement between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the agencies caring for unaccompanied children who cross...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Border Immigration Tent Courts Resemble 'China or Russia'
Gus Bova, Texas Observer, Sept. 24, 2019 "In Laredo and Brownsville, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has taken the unusual step of building tent court facilities alongside the ports of entry. There, members of the press and public are...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS OIG Finds 'Egregious Violations' of Immigration Detention Standards
DHS OIG, June 3, 2019 "Overall, our inspections of four detention facilities revealed violations of ICE’s 2011 Performance-Based National Detention Standards, which set requirements for facilities housing detainees. This report summarizes findings...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Groups Demand Release of Infants from Immigration Jails
AIC, AILA, CLINIC Legal, Feb. 28, 2019 "We write to bring your attention to an alarming increase in the number of infants being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. As of today, there are at least nine infants under one year...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
HHS OIG on Separated Children Placed in Office of Refugee Resettlement Care
HHS OIG, Jan. 2019 "What OIG Found In the summer of 2017, prior to the formal announcement of the zero-tolerance policy, ORR staff and officials observed a steep increase in the number of children who had been separated from a parent or guardian...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS OIG: 287(g) Expansion Suffers from Lack of Planning
DHS OIG, Sept. 19, 2018 - "In the 14 months following the issuance of the January 2017 Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements, the number of law enforcement agencies participating in the 287(g) program rose from...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 8 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Lawyer Paid $399,999 to Settle Lawsuit Against DHS: Vroom v. Johnson
Julia Preston, New York Times, Aug. 29, 2015 - " The Department of Homeland Security has reached a settlement with the top lawyer in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in Arizona, who sued the department in 2014 claiming discrimination...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Deportation Flights Wasting Millions
"ICE Air operated charter flights with empty seats and could have realized cost savings up to $41.1 million upon determining optimum flight capacity." - DHS OIG, Apr. 9, 2015 .
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS OIG on ICE Alternatives to Detention
"According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program is effective because, using its performance metrics, few program participants abscond. However, ICE has changed how it uses the program and...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Will Jeh Johnson Out-Perry Rick Perry?
Texas Governor Rick Perry sent the National Guard to the border. Now, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson wants to merge CBP and ICE efforts along the border into a 'Southern Command' military-like structure.
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
How ICE Justifies a 'No Bond' Policy for Refugee Kids
In Artesia, NM , (and soon, Karnes City, Texas and Dilley, Texas ) ICE is arguing in Immigration Court that the refugee mothers and kids from Central America should be held without bond. They base their argument on a 2003 case decided by then-Attorney...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS and Private Prisons Refuse to Release Records on Dollar Per Day Wages Paid to ICE Prisoners; FOIA Lawsuit Filed
"The last year I've been conducting research on the legality of ICE contracts authorizing private prisons to meet performance goals by paying one dollar per day to the people they're locking up. ICE is not forthcoming about the program and...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS Publishes Detention Standards for Immigration Jails
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is issuing regulations setting standards to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and assault in DHS confinement facilities." - Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 45 / Friday, March 7, 2014 .
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS OIG Report: ICE's Worksite Enforcement Administrative Inspection Process
"Generally, ICE’s worksite enforcement administrative inspection process met the requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. However, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations directorate has not adequately monitored or evaluated...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS Webinar: ICE's Efforts to Combat Violence Against Women, Jan. 28, 2014
E-Mail: From: CISOmbudsman.PublicAffairs [mailto:CISOmbudsman.PublicAffairs@hq.dhs.gov] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 1:17 PM To: CISOmbudsman.PublicAffairs Subject: DHS CCVAW Invitation for Webinar: ICE's Efforts to Combat Violence Against...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS on Immigration Enforcement During Tropical Storm Karen
"To the extent that Tropical Storm/Hurricane Karen (Karen) impacts law enforcement operations and/or the storm triggers the need for an officially ordered evacuation or an emergency government response, U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Will ICE and CBP Take Over US-VISIT?
"Although the budget has not yet been approved, ICE, CBP and US-VISIT are taking proactive steps to transfer the multiple US-VISIT programs, including its biometric and biographic entities over to ICE and CBP." - ICE, June 5, 2012 .
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
SEC Joins Probe of Chipotle Hiring Practices
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an expanding investigation into its alleged hiring of undocumented workers. The Denver-based company fired about 500 employees more than a year...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
PBS: Border Patrol Using Excessive Force?
"In partnership with the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute , Need to Know investigates whether U.S. border agents have been using excessive force in an effort to curb illegal immigration. Eight people have been killed along the border...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DON’T GET SCAMMED! What You Need to Know About Recent DHS Announcements
AILA, Dec. 30, 2011 : "In August, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it would be reviewing all cases pending in immigration court and temporarily closing low priority cases. In November, it announced that it had begun the case...
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