…proceedings, which are considered “civil,” not criminal, cases. Instead, the government has created a regulation that requires immigration officers to provide individuals they arrest with a more limited set of…
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…finds that while America’s governing system is old, broken and in desperate need of reform, Americans should find comfort in “America’s cycle of crisis and renewal.” We’ve been here before,…
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…implemented, the U.S. southern border would become an asylum-free zone. Buried in the Immigration and Nationality Act is a single, little-utilized provision that permits the United States to deny asylum…
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Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Edward Kennedy (D-MA) took action today to reform the Department of Homeland Security’s ever-growing immigration detention system. The need for reform could…
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…rising to 31.0% in 2019 shortly before the rule took effect. In December 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Urban Institute found that 27.7% of mixed-status families reported…
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…a reasonable path to citizenship, then the U.S. is “leaving dollars on the table” due to the economic benefits that citizenship presents. As they explained, there’s an additional economic premium…
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…why we came to this country to request asylum. Mr. President, your ICE agents deceived us, telling us we didn’t have a right to legal counsel, and they used lies…
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A growing number of communities are reevaluating their role in detaining immigrants on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Local officials in Atlanta, Georgia recently decided to stop…
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…towards law-abidingness,” and view making a refugee claim as “a manifestation of faith in legal process.” U.S. research bears this out. A Vera Institute study, from 1997 to 2000, of…
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…to 3 months—far more than the statutory maximum of 48 hours. Over the last year, New York City; Cook County, IL; and San Francisco, Sonoma, and Santa Clara Counties, CA…
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