…Lee Francis Cissna informed employees of the planned closures. The agency argues the move will reduce the backlog of immigration cases in the United States. Officials hope to lower the…
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…has implemented short cuts that limit and threaten due process to address the backlogs. Yet he has contributed to a shutdown that has led to the closure of over 90…
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…immigration requirements.” Unfortunately, the Trump administration abruptly ended the program in June 2017—just one-and-a-half years after it began, and well short of its five-year contract. Despite its premature closure, the…
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…businesses to close. With the loss of workers, the closure of businesses, and the resulting economic downturn, research suggests that as many as 88,000 Americans could lose their jobs for…
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…ended, ironically, by the Biden administration in 2021. To us, that closure was an important acknowledgement of the inhumanity of family detention. It was a sign that the Biden administration…
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…in Maryland was vetoed by the state’s governor. Each detention center closure is a success to be celebrated. ICE facilities of all types hold people in inhumane, dangerous conditions and…
Read More…before an immigration judge. Under the 1996 amendments, DHS officers can issue “expedited” removal orders or “reinstate” prior orders without further administrative or even judicial review. Indeed, for immigrants facing…
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…some courts are scheduling hearings as far out as 2015, yet Congress seems unwilling to appropriate additional funding. A recent study commissioned by the Administrative Conference of the United States,…
Read More…needs to capitalize on the momentum of the DREAM Act, continuing to push for both legislative and administrative reform. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, in urging Congress to pass the Civil…
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…bill for consideration. Now, after months of congressional inaction, President Obama is expected to announce in the coming months administrative action that would temporarily help repair the broken immigration system….
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