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Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Illinois’ ICE detention ban to take effect within weeks following appeals court ruling
Carlos Ballesteros, Injustice Watch, Jan. 13, 2022 "Two Illinois counties that detain immigrants in federal custody in their local jails will have to terminate their contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement within weeks, an appeals...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Detains 22,000 Immigrants at Start of 2022, Monitors 157,000 on Alternatives to Detention Program
TRAC, Jan. 13, 2022 "According to new data available through TRAC's ' Quick Facts ' tools, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is holding about 22,000 immigrants in civil detention centers across the country at the beginning of...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
On America's Obsession with Locking up Immigrants: Prof. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Todd Miller, Border Chronicle, Jan. 13, 2022 "When Joe Biden administration took office in January 2021, there were promises of a new direction in border and immigration enforcement, and that the policies of Donald Trump would be left behind. Now...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Experts Comment in Advance of Supreme Court Oral Argument
Jan. 11, 2022 - Today the Supreme Court will hold oral arguments in two immigration cases. Two expert comment: Prof. Shalini Ray - "The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in two related immigration cases , Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Stale ICE Detention Numbers
Austin Kocher, Nov. 15, 2021 "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is actively undermining Congress by failing to release accurate information about the number of immigrants in detention on a regular basis. While minor data issues with ICE...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Rigged by Design: ICE's Detention Algorithm
Aly Panjwani, Inquest, Oct. 29, 2021 "ICE’s policy preferences for carceral inputs meant that “the RCA’s algorithm lost the ability to measure true risk,” turning instead into “a tool of prosecution, pairing detention with enforcement preference...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Federal Jury: GEO Group Owes $17.3M in Back Pay to ICE Prisoners
Martin Kaste, NPR, Oct. 29, 2021 "A federal jury in Tacoma, Wash., says the GEO Group, which owns and runs a large detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, owes former detainees $17.3 million in back pay for tasks such as...
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 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Documentary Exposes GEO's Immigration Jail Near Denver
"The Facility" Trailer "“The Facility” is a short documentary film chronicling the lived experiences of immigrants being held at the GEO detention facility in Aurora, Colorado. This film addresses the personal loss and consequences caused...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
CBP Falsified Records in Death of Boy
Robert Moore, El Paso Matters, Sept. 17, 2021 "A new report details “deeply troubling failures” by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the 2019 death of a Guatemalan boy in the agency’s custody, including the creation of false...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Feds Pay $125K to American Citizen Illegally Imprisoned by ICE
NWIRP, Sept. 21, 2021 "U.S. Government Agrees to $125,000 Settlement for U.S. Citizen’s 7-Day Detention at the Northwest Detention Center FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, September 21, 2021 Media contact: Matt Adams, NWIRP (206) 501-6249; matt@nwirp...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Report: ICE Kicks Mentally Ill Prisoners to Street With No Notice to Counsel, Families
Erica Bryant, VERA, Sept. 2021 "[A]ttorneys report this pattern: people who have been declared mentally incompetent due to cognitive disabilities or mental illnesses are ejected from immigration detention facilities without any notice to their...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Now Monitors About 118,000 Immigrants Through Its Alternatives to Detention Program: TRAC
TRAC, Sept. 2, 2021 "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is monitoring record numbers of immigrants through its "Alternatives to Detention" programs that rely on GPS monitors, smartphone technology, and telephonic reporting to monitor...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
SCOTUS Adds Immigration Cases to 2021-22 Docket
Amy L. Howe, Aug. 23, 2021 "The Supreme Court added two new immigration cases to its docket for the 2021-22 term on Monday morning, granting a pair of petitions filed by the federal government. The relatively rare mid-summer additions came as part...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS Announces Alternatives to Detention Case Management Pilot Program
DHS, Aug. 17, 2021 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced a new Alternatives to Detention (ATD) Case Management Pilot Program (CMPP), which will provide voluntary case management and other services to ensure that noncitizens...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Origins of American Immigration Detention
Tanvi Misra, Ariel Aberg-Riger, Bloomberg CityLab, July 20, 2021 "The U.S. incarcerates more noncitizens than anywhere else in the world. On any given day in the U.S., thousands of people — adults and children — are in government custody, sometimes...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Immigration Cyber Prisons: Ending the Use of Electronic Ankle Shackles
Cardozo Law Immigration Justice Clinic, Freedom for Immigrants, Immigrant Defense Project, July 2021 " Cardozo’s Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic , together with Freedom for Immigrants, and Immigrant Defense Project have co...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Behind Closed Doors: Abuse & Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention
ACLU, PHR, June 23, 2021 " Behind Closed Doors: Abuse & Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention , a new research report from ACLU and PHR (Physicians for Human Rights), provides an in-depth, nationwide examination...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
FEDS SUED OVER INTENTIONAL CRUELTY AT GEORGIA IMMIGRATION JAIL
MALDEF, June 11, 2021 "A transgender immigrant held in solitary confinement for approximately seven months at a Georgia immigration detention center that is under investigation for abuse is suing the federal government. MALDEF (Mexican American...
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 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Lawsuit Filed against CoreCivic in NM
ACLU-NM, May 13, 2021 " The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico and the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center (NMILC) today filed a lawsuit on behalf of nine asylum-seekers formerly detained at the Torrance County Detention Facility as...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Washington State Governor OKs Bill Banning For-Profit Jails
Rachel La Corte, Associated Press, Apr. 14, 2021 "One of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails would be shut down by 2025 under a bill signed Wednesday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. The measure approved by the Washington...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Cruelty and Corruption: Contracting to Lock Up Immigrant Women for Profit at the Hutto Detention Center
UT Law Immigration Clinic, Grassroots Leadership, Mar. 30, 2021 "The story of the T. Don Hutto (“Hutto”) immigration detention center is a story of women deprived of their liberty and dignity in the pursuit of profits for the private prison company...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Court Blocks ICE, NARA From Destroying Records
Amy Lieu, American Independent, Mar. 15, 2021 "A federal judge ruled on Friday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the National Archives and Records Administration must preserve sexual assault and death files on detained immigrants...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
COVID-19 and Immigration Detention
Caitlin Patler, PhD, Jackie Gonzalez, JD, Hamid Yazdan Panah, JD, Immigration Initiative at Harvard, Feb. 2021 "The COVID-19 pandemic exposes a federal immigration detention system of imprisonment without trial that has long failed to properly...
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