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Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 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 7 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Bound to Pay: For-Profit Ankle Monitors - Helpful Service or Debt Trap for Desperate Immigrants?
Gus Bova, Texas Observer, Sept. 26, 2017 - "Libre claims it’s helping immigrants by getting them out of detention when no one else will. “Our mission is to give hope to those who have lost it and to help those without a voice in the immigration...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 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 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Jailing Immigrants Indefinitely an Assault on Due Process: Bruce Einhorn
"Americans would be surprised to learn that thousands of the prisoners in our massive system are immigration detainees, wasting away in jail while awaiting their deportation hearings. In many cases, immigrants in detention cannot be deported from...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Scholars to Senate: Grassley Amendment 53 Unconstitutional
"As law professors and scholars of constitutional and immigration law, we urge you to oppose Senator Grassley’s Amendment 53, the “Keep Our Communities Safe Act of 2013.” The amendment is unconstitutional because it would require...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Immigration Detention and Release Policies Fatally Flawed
Donald Kerwin, May 2, 2020 "In late March, I argued in an earlier version of this paper that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should immediately embark on an aggressive program of release, supervised release and alternative-to-detention...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Just Quietly Opened Three New Detention Centers, Flouting Congress’ Limits
Noah Lanard, Mother Jones, July 9, 2019 "When members of Congress reached a bipartisan deal to end the government shutdown in February, they gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement a simple instruction: Stop detaining so many people. Instead,...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Alternatives to Immigrant Incarceration: A Better Way
David Secor, Heidi Altman and Tara Tidwell Cullen of the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), April 2019 "As the Trump administration seeks to indefinitely detain asylum seekers and continues its rapid expansion of its immigration prison...
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
Migrant Kids Behind Bars a 'Moral Disaster' - AP Report
Garance Burke and Martha Mendoza, Associated Press, Dec. 19, 2018 - "Decades after the U.S. stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again. The federal government has placed...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Landscape of Immigration Detention in the United States
Emily Ryo, J.D., Ph.D. and Ian Peacock, M.A., December 5, 2018 - "On any given day, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains tens of thousands of individuals who are accused of violating U.S. immigration laws. ICE currently relies on...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Immigration Private Prison Litigation Expands to New Mexico: Ndambi v. CoreCivic
Prof. Jacqueline Stevens, Nov. 16, 2018 -"CoreCivic, aka CCA, Sued in New Mexico for Exploiting People Held during Immigration Proceedings "CoreCivic profits from its operation of Cibola by relying heavily on a captive workforce...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 7 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Texas Immigration Jail Holding Some Families Too Long
Meredith Hoffman, Associated Press, May 31, 2017 - "Afghan asylum seeker Samira Hakimi and her family members — three of them young children — have spent six months inside a Texas immigration lockdown, even though state lawmakers adjourned this week...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 7 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The cruel but usual conditions inside two Georgia immigration detention centers
AZADEH SHAHSHAHANI AND SHOBA SIVAPRASAD WADHIA, May 18, 2017 - "Just published: Imprisoned Justice: Inside Two Georgia Immigrant Detention Centers . The report focuses on the conditions of two detention centers in the state of Georgia: The Stewart...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 7 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Thousands of Immigrant Parents Detained - HRW Report
Human Rights Watch, May 15, 2017 - "New data analysis reveals that more than 10,000 parents of US citizen children are most likely detained every year in California by immigration authorities, Human Rights Watch said today. In light of new Trump...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 7 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Lawsuits, Controversy Swirl re Immigration Bonding Company Libre by Nexus
Washington Post, Mar. 9, 2017 - "Nefi Flores had been in an immigration detention center in Tacoma, Wash., for three months when a fellow inmate told him there was a company that could help him get out. Libre by Nexus was barely a year old. But by...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 7 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Will Strong Defensive Tactics Jam Immigration Jails, Clog Immigration Courts? (WSJ)
Recent headlines/stories from the Wall Street Journal: - Mexicans Vow to Fight Trump by Jamming U.S. Courts (Feb. 10, 2017) - Mexican Migrants Signal They Prefer Detention to Deportation (Feb. 12, 2017)
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 7 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
CIVIC Files Civil Rights Complaint Alleging Frequent Denial of Visits at Cal. Immigration Jail Since Election
CIVIC, Jan. 18, 2017 - "Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) has filed a formal complaint with the Office for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties within the Department of Homeland Security on behalf of the people who...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 8 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS Subcommittee to Advise on Privatized Immigration Detention
Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 171 / Friday, September 2, 2016 - "The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Jeh Johnson, tasked the Homeland Security Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee entitled the Privatized Immigration...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 8 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Will DHS Follow DOJ's Lead in Booting Private Prisons?
Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress, Aug. 18, 2016 - "The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will stop outsourcing federal prisons to private prison companies after their current contracts expire. But that doesn’t mean the federal government...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 8 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
GAO on Immigration Detention (May 26, 2016)
Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen DHS Management of Short-Term Holding Facilities - "GAO recommends that DHS establish a process to assess time in custody data for all individuals in holding facilities; issue guidance on how and which complaint...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 8 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
How For-Profit Companies Are Driving Immigration Detention Policies
Sharita Gruberg, Dec. 18, 2015 - "Surprisingly, the largest detention and supervised release program in the country is not operated by the U.S. Department of Justice, or DOJ, but by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, which oversees...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 9 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Old Contract With GEO Group May Tie Karnes County's Hands Over Family Immigration Prison Expansion
"On Thursday afternoon, the Karnes County Commissioners Court, which normally meets before a handful of citizens, moved its meeting to an overflow room. The meeting was unusually well-attended because the county’s residents need to decide — and...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
University of Miami School of Law Students Call For Shutdown Of Immigration Detention In Glades County Jail
"Law students at the University of Miami School of Law’s Immigration Clinic will hold a news conference on Thursday, November 21 st at 11 a.m. in Room A215B of the law school on the Coral Gables campus at 1311 Miller Drive. Student will discuss...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Madness of U.S. Immigration Detention Policy
"Imagine if Congress mandated that an arbitrary number of jail cells be filled with prisoners -- regardless of the crime rate. Authorities would be required to incarcerate people, no matter the circumstances or the affront to human rights. That’s...
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