Details Begin to Emerge on New Immigration Bill
…a 90 percent apprehension rate of people attempting to illegally cross in high-risk areas of the U.S.-Mexican border. If DHS does not meet those standards, then a border commission of…
Read MorePosted by Amanda Peterson Beadle | Apr 16, 2013 | Adjustment of Status, Employment and Wages, Employment Based, Enforcement, Legislation, Reform
…a 90 percent apprehension rate of people attempting to illegally cross in high-risk areas of the U.S.-Mexican border. If DHS does not meet those standards, then a border commission of…
Read MorePosted by Suchita Mathur | Apr 20, 2023 | Abuses, Border Enforcement, Enforcement
…group and the appalling conditions it faced. The journalists witnessed U.S. agents in vans and ATVs driving by the group several times. When officers finally did stop, migrants quickly approached…
Read MorePosted by Amanda Peterson Beadle | Aug 25, 2014 | Integration, State and Local
…years—and rooted members of our communities. Those states and counties that work to integrate them into their communities will do better in the long run, even as they wait for…
Read MorePosted by Jorge Loweree | Jan 23, 2020 | Border Enforcement, Enforcement
…nationwide. The program is currently operating at the port of entry in Eagle Pass, Texas and within the Border Patrol’s Detroit Sector. When fully implemented, the program would collect the…
Read MorePosted by Lindsay Harris | Nov 24, 2015 | Asylum, Detention, Humanitarian Protection
…did not pass the initial threshold for eligibility. Following this screening, these families would have met with volunteer lawyers from the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project, who would have…
Read MorePosted by Beth Werlin | Feb 17, 2015 | Executive Action, Immigration Courts
…children or who are undocumented parents of U.S. citizen and green card holders. These individuals must pass a background check and meet other requirements. The government had been preparing to…
Read MorePosted by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Apr 19, 2023 | Asylum, Border Enforcement, Enforcement, Humanitarian Protection, Legislation
On Monday, April 17, the House GOP introduced its first comprehensive border bill of the 118th Congress. The bill comes after months of disagreement within the caucus surrounding legislative responses…
Read More…is not what a reformed system looks like. It’s time to reform the immigrant detention system as we have come to know it, and look for solutions that are humane,…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Robbins | Feb 15, 2022 | Legislation, Reform
…the so-called “Dignity Program,” This would be a 10-year program of “work authorization and protection from removal proceedings” in the form of deferred action, available for undocumented immigrants who pass…
Read MorePosted by Walter Ewing | Jan 5, 2015 | Enforcement
…report examined 809 complaints of physical, sexual and verbal abuse lodged against Border Patrol agents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and found that 97 percent of cases in…
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