Apr
25
Almost two years to the day after Arizona enacted the notorious immigration law known as SB 1070, the Supreme Court heard arguments in what could be the first of many cases over the validity of the measure. Although most critics of the law have focused on its potential for civil rights violations, the only question …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/25/supreme-court-asks-hard-questions-at-oral-arguments-over-arizona-sb-1070/
Apr
20
The borderlands of the southwestern United States are not the only place where immigration enforcement tramples upon the most basic of civil and human rights. Many communities along the northern border are also subject to such abuses, as detailed in a recent report from OneAmerica and the University of Washington Center for Human Rights. The …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/20/report-brings-border-patrol-abuses-to-light-in-washington-state/
Apr
17
When it comes to the topic of immigration, Tax Day is a reminder of two important and often-overlooked points. First, immigrants pay billions in taxes every year. This is true even of unauthorized immigrants. Second, the federal government spends billions of taxpayer dollars each year on immigration-enforcement measures that wouldn’t be necessary if not for …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/17/immigrant-tax-contributions-and-the-future-of-the-u-s-economy/
Apr
12
Immigration violations are civil, not criminal infractions. But for many non-criminal immigrant detainees living alongside criminal inmates at the Etowah County Detention Center in Alabama, that distinction carries little meaning. Far removed from families and legal orientation programs, many of the 350 immigrant detainees housed at the Etowah Detention Center have received deportation orders, but …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/12/non-deportable-immigrants-languish-in-alabama-detention-facility-at-taxpayers-expense/
Apr
11
As immigration becomes an ever more controversial part of the American debate, conversations often turn to details about legislation and court battles rather than questioning whether fundamental principles of justice are being applied throughout our immigration system. Two new reports released today, however, address some of these key principles, such as the idea of proportionality (whether …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/11/does-the-punishment-fit-the-crime-experts-examine-proportionality-and-discretion-in-our-immigration-system/
Apr
09
Keeping to its tradition of releasing controversial reports on holidays and Friday afternoons, the DHS Office of Inspector General issued two reports on the controversial Secure Communities program last Friday. These reports had been anticipated for months by immigrant advocates, law enforcement officials, local elected officials, and others who hoped they would address serious concerns …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/09/dhs-inspector-general-issues-disappointing-reports-on-ices-secure-communities-program/
Apr
05
U.S. immigration and border-enforcement policies have precipitated a litany of human-rights abuses along the U.S.-Mexico border, from the needless deaths of border-crossers to inhumane conditions in immigration detention to the racial profiling of entire Latino and indigenous communities. That was the principal finding of the human rights groups which presented testimony at a recent hearing …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/05/human-rights-abuses-along-u-s-mexico-border-underscore-need-for-reform/
Apr
04
A provision of the immigration law commonly known as the “3 and 10 year bars” has proven to be one of the most heart-breaking of the many draconian changes made to the immigration law at the time. Since its enactment in 1996, the provision—which imposes re-entry bars of 3 to 10 years on immigrants who …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/04/uscis-one-step-closer-to-adopting-improvement-to-waiver-process/
Apr
02
Immigration enforcement and deportation have a particularly devastating impact on mixed status families, that is, families who have one or more direct members who are undocumented. When parents are deported, families face impossible decisions about whether their family will be separated or whether U.S. citizen kids will be de facto deported along with their parents. …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/02/ice-deported-more-than-46000-immigrants-with-u-s-citizen-children-last-year-report-finds/
Mar
30
The Washington Post and Huffington Post are reporting that ICE’s ongoing review of existing deportation cases will expand to six new cities in the coming months. Initially launched in Baltimore and Denver in 2011, the initiative will soon expand to Seattle, Detroit, New Orleans and Orlando, followed by Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/30/review-of-immigration-cases-expands-to-half-dozen-new-cities/
Immigration Impact is a project of the American Immigration Council.
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