May
14
After ICE Director John Morton issued a memo last June outlining how and when ICE officials should exercise prosecutorial discretion in immigration cases, many were optimistic that the memo’s implementation would relieve backlogs and help the agency focus on higher priority immigration cases. Months later, however, folks are finding that one large group of people …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/05/14/immigrants-without-legal-representation-not-benefitting-from-prosecutorial-discretion/
May
07
Of the many problems with our immigration system, one of the least known—but most frustrating—is that when the government deports immigrants whose appeals are still pending, it offers little to no help returning to the United States if they ultimately prevail in court. Immigrant advocates were thus perplexed when the Justice Department filed a Supreme …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/05/07/after-justice-department-admits-mistake-immigrant-advocates-ask-supreme-court-to-fix-prior-opinion/
Apr
30
Proponents of “attrition through enforcement” would have you believe that, given the right conditions, unauthorized immigrants will choose to leave the U.S. and return to their home countries. The Myth of Self Deportation, by Alexandra Filindra, questions the assumptions behind the attrition strategy and concludes that self-deportation is not rational because unauthorized immigrants have invested …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/30/study-shows-self-deportation-is-irrational-behavior-and-a-false-premise/
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
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
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
27
The priorities of immigration enforcement authorities, such as ICE and the Border Patrol, often do not align with those of local law enforcement agents. When local law enforcement officials are charged with enforcing federal immigration laws, unauthorized immigrants tend to lose trust in, cease interacting with, and often do not report crimes to law enforcement …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/27/more-evidence-that-hostile-immigration-enforcement-compromises-public-safety/
Mar
21
Nine years after its creation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is still hampered by mission overlap and inadequate information sharing among the various agencies within the department. So concludes a recent report by the DHS Office of Inspector General, entitled Information Sharing on Foreign Nationals: Border Security. Highlights from the report include a recommendation …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/21/dhs-report-finds-inadequate-information-sharing-mission-overlap-among-immigration-agencies/
Mar
14
Late last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) instructed its attorneys to review matters pending before immigration courts in search of low-priority cases warranting prosecutorial discretion. But of the approximately 300,000 immigrants now in deportation proceedings, how many stand to potentially benefit from the initiative? In recent days, immigrant advocates have fretted the figure could …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/03/14/crunching-and-clarifying-the-numbers-on-prosecutorial-discretion/
Immigration Impact is a project of the American Immigration Council.
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