…of the LGBTQ community. The American Immigration Council, the ACLU, the National Immigrant Justice Center and the National Immigration Law Center filed Tuesday’s FOIA requests. Many years from now these…
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…permits and other relief: How Massachusetts Is Helping Migrants The Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants hosted a clinic in November, leveraging National Guard volunteers as well as a National…
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…in terrorism or espionage, and people who threaten the national security of the U.S. The memo makes it clear that “general criminal activity” is not a national security threat. Border…
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…of contracts cite only the weaker and outdated ICE 2000 National Detention Standards or 2008 PBNDS [Performance-Based National Detention Standards], and several other contracts only generally reference ‘ICE detention standards’…
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…2003 legal opinion by President Bush’s attorney general, John Ashcroft. Ashcroft had asserted that it was proper to consider the “national security interests implicated by” potential mass migration in making…
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…immigration and refugee system. These include, but are not limited to, the belief that: families should be preserved; admission policies should not be based on national origin, race, or privilege;…
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…controversy. After it was uncovered that the National Security Agency (NSA) secretly engaged in warrantless wiretapping of domestic communications, the Bush administration and Congress moved to legalize the practice. The…
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…in federal law to the term “foreign national;” (b) strike the term “illegal alien” from federal law and replace it with the term “undocumented foreign national;” and (c) ensure all…
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BY KAREN TUMLIN, MANAGING ATTORNEY, NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against South Carolina, challenging the state’s extreme anti-immigration law (SB 20). With…
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…Wise Investment for Cities, estimates that immigrants’ earnings would increase 8 to 11 percent nationally after naturalization, creating beneficial ripple effects in the wider economy. In fact, the report notes…
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