My friend Morgan Smith wrote this note about the Rio Grande in July 2024. Learn more about Morgan here , here and here .
J.A.M. v. USA "The Court holds that Oscar is entitled to a much lower, but still notable award of $175,000 because he was somewhat older at the time of the incident, was detained for about half...
Path2Papers, July 17, 2024 " What are the policy changes the Biden administration is implementing regarding temporary work visas? On June 18, 2024, the Biden administration announced a policy...
DOJ, July 18, 2024 "The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs Inc. (Southwest Key), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied children who are...
Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters, July 18, 2024 "Even with all the industries where Californians went on strike during last year’s “hot labor summer,” some of the most active sites of...
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 and violating the federal agency’s own policy regarding personal belongings, according to the ACLU and a coalition of immigrant advocacy organizations. The requirement that asylum seekers abandon the few possessions they have at the border “strips people of their humanity, and is totally unnecessary,” said Noah Schramm, ACLU’s border policy strategist in Arizona. When institutions violate people’s civil and human rights, they create an environment in which some feel justified in taking violent action, Schramm said, referring to the shooting death of a migrant last week in Texas by the warden of a private immigrant detention center. “The journey in itself is already dangerous,” he said. “And on top of that, they’re forced to abandon the few belongings that they’ve brought with them.” On Monday, the coalition, led by the ACLU of Arizona, sent a letter to Customs and Border Protection commissioner Chris Magnus, who oversees Border Patrol, demanding that the agency stop confiscating and trashing peoples’ belongings, and asking for a meeting to discuss the issue."