Dan Gooding, Newsweek, June 28, 2024 "LGBTQ+ migrants fleeing persecution have reported being subjected to physical and verbal abuse while in U.S. custody, with some being driven to self-harm, left with hives or experiencing panic attacks. A new report from...
Eunice Hyunhye Cho, ACLU National Prison Project; Tessa Wilson, Senior Program Officer, PHR Asylum Program, June 25, 2024 "Since January 1, 2017, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reported that 68 people have died in its custody. This number...
As reported by El Paso immigration law superstar Taylor Levy (@taylorklevy on X) on June 6, 2024 , the ICE Online Detainee [a.k.a. "prisoner"] Locator web tool has been improved to include those prisoners " currently in CBP custody for 48 hours or...
NIPNLG Practice Advisory, May 28, 2024 "The purpose of this guide is to provide practitioners with a comprehensive resource for representing adult clients detained by DHS in immigration court bond proceedings. The guide covers the following topics: ...
DHS OIG, Mar. 15, 2024 "In July 2023, we conducted on-site, unannounced inspections of six U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities in the Rio Grande Valley area, specifically three U.S. Border Patrol facilities and three Office of Field Operations...
CGRS, Mar. 15, 2024 "Al Otro Lado and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to compel the government to release information on its policies and practices at open air detention sites. Since...
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, “ Electronic...
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) – provides...
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...
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 for immigrants...
Prof. Alexandra Dufresne, Dec. 13, 2023 writes : "Our clinic is pleased to release a new report: The Dignity Not Detention Act: Transforming Immigration Detention Practices in New York State (December 2023) gives a detailed inventory of immigration detention...
TRAC, Nov. 16, 2023 "According to the latest data released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a total of 39,748 immigrants were held in detention as of November 5, 2023. The last time detention numbers reached 40,000 was in January 2020. Immigrant...
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 that allowed...
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 refuses...
Rae Ann Varona, Law360, Sept. 20, 2023 "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog revealed problems it found from surprise inspections at migrant holding facilities, citing prolonged detention times and overcrowding in Texas facilities...