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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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New @TRACReports analysis adds context to what I was tweeting about earlier: "ICE Focus Shifts Away from Detaining Serious Criminals." trac.syr.edu/immigration/re…

From September 2016 to December 2018, the number of people with serious criminal convictions in ICE custody dropped 17%.
.@TRACReports also added a new tool to analyze the ICE detention data for their latest report! Even though the data only goes through December 2018, this is really great granular data that you can track through various snapshots! I know what I'll be doing. trac.syr.edu/phptools/immig…
According to @TRACReports, as of December 2018, one person has been locked up by ICE since October 2007—over 11 years. I wonder who's representing that poor guy.

TRAC also says that 10% of people in ICE jails have been there for over 6 months of prolonged detention.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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New analysis from @TRACReports directly contradicts @DHSMcAleenan's testimony in front of Congress, confirming that he was dead wrong when he accused families of failing to appear in court.

TRAC: Most Released Families Attend Immigration Court Hearings trac.syr.edu/immigration/re…
At a hearing last week, DHS Acting Secretary @DHSMcAleenan told Congress that "90 percent of [families placed on the accelerated Family Unit Docket] did not show up for their hearings."

In reality? Just 14.5 percent of families missed their first hearing in court.
This new report also provides an interesting breakdown of appearance rates for families on the new docket by court. The outlier courts are fascinating to me. The Atlanta court is notoriously an "asylum-free zone," and I wonder whether its reputation has scared some away.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Good morning! Today the Senate Judiciary Committee is having a hearing Sen. Graham's "Secure and Protect Act," his plan to rewrite asylum laws.

Importantly, this will be Acting DHS Secretary @DHSMcAleenan's first appearance since Friday's tariffs announcement.

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The @NatImmForum has a great explainer on Sen. Graham's bill, which is here.

The bill would allow for vastly expanded detention of families and children, block asylum for anyone not going to a port of entry, and create other new limits on asylum.

immigrationforum.org/article/bill-s…
Given that today's hearing comes just days after the tariff "deal," we should expect Senators on both sides of the aisle to question @DHSMcAleenan about the details.

I wrote about the tariff deal yesterday here, and why we should remain skeptical of it.
immigrationimpact.com/2019/06/10/tru…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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🚨 NEW: DHS Office of Inspector General's report on "dangerous overcrowding" at the El Paso Del Norte Processing Center is now out.

900 people held in a facility designed for 125!

In one case, "a cell with a maximum capacity of 35 held 155 detainees."
oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
DHS OIG visited five different CBP facilities in the El Paso area over the week of May 6, 2019. What they found was massively overcrowded cells with asylum seekers packed in like sardines.

In one case, the Border Patrol had put 76 women into a cell designed for just twelve.
One cell was designed for just 8 people. But the Inspector General found 41 women forced into it.

According to the OIG, "overcrowding and prolonged detention represent an immediate risk to the health and safety not just of the detainees, but also DHS agents and officers."
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On this week’s new episode, @patrickmichels interviews a judge who ordered people deported more often than almost any other judge in the country. revealnews.org/episodes/trans…
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A snapshot of the people who ICE detains found that 58% had no criminal record. An even larger proportion—four out of five—either had no record, or had only committed a minor offense such as a traffic violation. trac.syr.edu/immigration/re…
One out of five people were convicted of a felony. Of those only 16% had a serious, or level 1, offense. Even among Level 1 offenses ICE included crimes such as "selling marijuana" which many states have now legalized.
For those who had been convicted, the most frequent crime was illegal entry (a misdemeanor), followed by driving under the influence of alcohol. Conviction for a miscellaneous assault was third, and a simple traffic offense was the fourth most frequent offense.
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Adolfo Flores
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.@TRACReports found that about 1,000 of 4,500 adults arrested with kids by Border Patrol in April have been quickly deported. Many without the kids.

trac.syr.edu/immigration/re…
@TRACReports Only 851 of about 5,100 kids arrested as part of those family units have been deported.

It appears as though several hundred parents have been deported w/out their kids in April alone.

trac.syr.edu/immigration/re…
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As of April 2018, slightly more than half, 51.2%, of the kids arrested w/parents this fiscal year were only 7 years of age or younger. About 23% were three or younger. Only 5% were as old as 17.
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