Had a good amount of work I was proud of out this week, so in case you missed any of it, here’s a little compilation: for @businessinsider, I spoke to the people engaged in the family reunification effort ahead of the task force announcement businessinsider.com/inside-the-eff… For @thedailybeast, I explored the case of a US-born man whose documents were confiscated and was expelled by CBP when he tried to enter the country thedailybeast.com/the-us-wont-le…

NEW: 40 years after arriving in Miami, Félix Repilado Martínez died of COVID-19 at a privately-run noncitizen prison. He'd been symptomatic for weeks. Witnesses and documents show he was given substandard care, friends & family were misled about his death theintercept.com/2020/08/14/cor… Félix, 67, had been shaken by his drug arrest, and vowed to get out of prison and leave that business to take care of his ten-year-old son. He never got the chance

Seeing a lot of confusion about this, so here's a quick clarification: CBP's authority does NOT stop at 100 miles from the border. CBP agents are immigration officers whose powers are delineated in 8 USC 1357 1/ Section (a)(3) notes agents have the power to "within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States, to board and search for aliens any vessel within the territorial waters of the United States and any railway car, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle..."

NEW: According to documents and interviews with attorneys in South Texas, ICE officials in San Antonio are doing blanket denials of parole for migrants affected by the travel ban. Some people have been in custody for months with no access to release. theintercept.com/2020/03/03/ice… The El Paso sector had a similar policy before it was reversed in late January. Two separate court orders had required ICE to stop doing blanket denials for asylum seekers, but officials found a loophole: people affected by the travel ban aren't technically asylum seekers

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So, I don't typically like to discuss my personal life on here, but, in the context of the #PublicChargeRule and the broader debate over the difficulty of securing a permanent status, here goes: I recently filed this packet with USCIS. It's one of the more straightforward immigration processes you can undertake (adjustment of status as immediate relative of US citizen) and, at ~140 pages, it is on the shorter side of immigration applications writ large

EXCLUSIVE: Internal NYS court documents obtained by @mazsidahmed and I show that court officers have proactively alerted ICE about immigrants in courts. Court administration long insisted that officers have only assisted in arrests to preserve safety documentedny.com/2019/01/26/doc… Unusual Occurrence Reports filed after ICE arrests reveal incidents in 2017 in which ICE agents asked court officers for a heads-up on targets appearing in court. In this example, an ICE agent left a business card with an NY court officer, who later called the agent

There seem to be a lot of people confused about NYC's new municipal health plan, along the lines of "did't we already treat uninsured persons at H+H facilities?" Let me take a stab at answering 1/5 Short answer is yes, anyone can walk into a H+H hospital for treatment and can pay on a sliding scale if they are low-income and uninsured. BUT this is inefficient and impersonal5. They don't have a primary care provider who does preventive checkups and knows their chart 2/