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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...

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...

MALDEF, Jan. 17, 2020 "Las Vegas city authorities’ policy of holding immigrants in jail after they have completed their sentences is unconstitutional, a lawsuit filed today charged. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational...

ACLU Southern California, Oct. 13, 2020 "The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today approved settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by immigrants who were unlawfully detained by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department — sometimes...

PRNewswire, Feb. 11, 2021 - Migrants' rights group searches for victims in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Ecuador "Individuals who were held in L.A. County jail based on ICE holds in the period from October 2010 to June 2014 may...

Priya Sreenivasan, Jason A. Cade, and Azadeh Shahshahani, Dec. 2021 "In January 2017, former President Trump announced Executive Order 13768, in which he pledged to expand 287(g) agreements across the country, a program that deputizes state and...

Sean Rice, KRDO, Feb. 14, 2023 "Attorneys for former El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder, who was being sued in his official capacity, have agreed to pay a $25,000 dollar settlement to someone immigration authorities say was an undocumented immigrant...

ACLU Colorado, Mar. 17, 2023 "After five years of litigation that included a precedent-setting decision by the Colorado Supreme Court and two stops at the Court of Appeals, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office has finally compensated Saul...

Ted Mitchell, ACE, July 6, 2020 "On its face, the guidance released today by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is horrifying. While we would welcome more clarity about international students studying in the United States, this guidance...

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...

"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...

Interpol permanently deleted the bogus Red Notice. An Immigration Judge granted her asylum...twice. ICE still has her locked up. The habeas petition is here . The ACLU media release is here . Wesley Muller's Louisiana Illuminator article is here...

... about the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman ? "If you or someone you know has or had a problem while in immigration detention, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman (OIDO) can help. OIDO is an independent office within...

Tom Dreisbach, NPR, Aug. 16, 2023 " "There is no justifiable correctional reason that required the detainee who had a mental health condition to have his clothes cut off by a female officer while he was compliant in a restraint chair. This...

TRAC, July 19, 2023 "The odds that Immigration Judges granted bond motions for detained immigrants varied this year so far from a low of just three percent at the Northwest Detention Center in the state of Washington to 45 percent at the Krome...

Megan Gleason, Source NM, July 14, 2023 "Lawmakers blocked a bill in the 2023 legislative session that would’ve prohibited local New Mexico governments from hiring federal immigration officers to detain migrants, arguing that detention centers...

Alex Burness, Bolts, June 8, 2023 "Colorado this week became just the seventh U.S. state to prohibit local government agreements to detain immigrants in their jails on behalf of federal immigration authorities. House Bill 1100 , which Democratic...

NWIRP, May 30, 2023 "The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington approved a settlement agreement today in Favela Avendaño v. Bostock, a case brought in 2020 by Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP), the American Civil Liberties...

UCLA MPP, May 2023 "Over 70 years since its inception, a provision under an appropriations bill that the 95th United States Congress passed has allowed immigrant workers in detention centers to earn just $1 a day. Working alongside our client,...

TRAC, Apr. 3, 2023 "According to the latest data released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention numbers creeped upward in recent weeks while alternatives to detention numbers continue to decline. TRAC has also implemented new...

TRAC, Mar. 7, 2023 "What lies behind ICE’s frequent posting of Alternatives to Technology (ATD) data that the agency now admits was incorrect? The data ICE had been posting for months showed that use of GPS ankle monitors had been increasing. ...

Innovation Law Lab, Mar. 1, 2023 "On February 24, 2023, Innovation Law Lab, New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, and Santa Fe Dreamers Project delivered a  letter  to the offices of: US Department of Homeland...

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...

ABA "This webinar will discuss the dramatic rise in the use of electronic monitoring of migrants, including through ankle monitors and phone app technology. It will ask whether electronic monitoring presents a positive move away from immigration...

ABA Commission on Immigration, Dec. 9, 2022 " This resource  was envisioned and drafted by COI Special Advisor Dora Schriro, to help inform practitioners who work with individuals in ICE detention centers about ICE detention standards. We are very...