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Oct 18, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Last week, the Dept of Homeland Security’s Inspector General issued a report detailing ICE’s ineffective oversight, record-keeping, and implementation of segregation in its immigration prison facilities oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
72% of the files that the inspector general reviewed there was no evidence that ICE considered an alternative housing situation to segregation
Feb 18, 2021 • 36 tweets • 4 min read
I’ve read through most (I think) of the sections of the U.S. Citizenship Act that turn on criminal activity or policing. Here are some thoughts….
In section 1106, the proposal uses a wide array of criminal activity to bars people from the new legalization scheme.
Feb 17, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Last Friday, the federal government filed its motion opposing a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit Texas brought against the Biden-Harris administration’s 100-day deportation pause.
In it, the Justice Dept challenges TX’s ability to sue (called standing), claiming that TX points to “speculative” harm only.
Feb 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Private prison corporation GEO Group tells investors it’s concerned about political climate: "heightened political rhetoric has led to the mischaracterization of our role as a government services provider and has created concerns regarding our future access to financing.”
About Biden’s executive order rolling back Justice Dept contracts with private prison companies, GEO says: "we expect that our remaining secure services contracts with the [Bureau of Prisons] may not be renewed over the coming years."
Jan 26, 2021 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
I just read the federal court’s decision to stop the 100-day deportation pause. The court granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Biden administration from implementing its 100-day deportation pause. The TRO applies for 14 days.
The court concluded that Texas is likely to win its argument that the pause 1) violates the Immigration & Nationality Act’s requirement that migrants ordered removed from the USA be removed within 90 days, and...
Jan 20, 2021 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
Now that the rug has been rolled up on Air Force One (literally) for the last time as Trump is in it…let’s talk about immigration. Biden-Harris administration plans to release proposed immigration legislation called the US Citizenship Act.
The transition team has released a fact sheet. Some key points described: 1) Replace “alien” with “noncitizen” in federal immigration laws.
Jan 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Trump issues last-minute relief to Venezuelans in the United States as of January 20, 2021 whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
This grant of Deferred Enforced Departure runs for 18 months. Along with it, Trump instructed Secretary of Homeland Security (whoever that is right now) "to take appropriate measures to authorize employment for aliens whose removal has been deferred…."
Oct 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Expedited removal isn’t a bad idea because it’s new. It’s not. It’s been happening for decades along the border. It’s a procedural catastrophe that subverts the legitimacy of the US immigration system by circumventing immigration courts.
It’s also a bad idea because it catches US citizens in its rule-of-law deathtrap.
Mar 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Amicus brief by 67,000-strong American Academy of Pediatrics puts government’s choice starkly: release families from ICE immigration prisons or “significant number” will face “permanent disability or death” - filed in OMG v Wolf
Releasing kids & parents would help them, staff, medical systems, & everyone who relies on medical systems (meaning pretty much all of us). By contrast, continuing to detain families is likely to create Covid-19 hotspots, AAP amicus brief argues.
According to the very agency he heads, this is the “number of DACA requestors approved with a prior arrest” meaning that they were granted DACA despite the arrest. Another way of putting it is, even DHS doesn’t think these arrests are a very big deal.
Also, and here I’ll just quote from the USCIS statistical report, since the agency that Cuccinelli heads put it as well as I can:
Apr 17, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
In whirlwind created by AG Barr’s decision on asylum-applicant imprisonment, easy to miss report issued by DHS advisory group calling for 1) more detention beds for families and 2) lifting the 20-day cap on detaining kids dhs.gov/sites/default/…
Here’s the key summary language from the Homeland Security Advisory Council report
