A drug informant facing deportation who recently won a reprieve was secretly transported to immigration detention center
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Dissenting views on fixing the immigration system
A Council on Foreign Relations report on recommended fixes to the nation’s broken immigration system, released yesterday, didn’t just outline the numerous ways to address the mess. It also offered some dissenting voices, among them ending the practice of giving citizenship to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrant parents.
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How to fix the nation’s broken immigration system?
The Council on Foreign Relations drafts a report with possible solutions.
Posted inImmigration, National Security
Immigration Courts Make Do With Limited Resources Despite Mounting Caseloads
Many removal proceedings must go before an immigration judge. This chart shows trends in the number of people that were removed from the U.S. from 2003 to 2008, broken down by ICE Field Office. Click on image to view chart. Produced by Hugo Cabrera While the nation’s understaffed immigration courts strain under a backlog that […]
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Army Extends Immigrant Recruiting
The lanky 19-year-old from South Korea has lived in the Southland since he was 9 years old. He is as comfortable speaking English as his native Korean. And he desperately wants to join the Army. Late last week, the teenager walked into a recruiting office in an Eagle Rock mall wearing a pendant shaped like […]
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On BBC: U.S. citizens caught in immigration sweeps
CIR reporter Andrew Becker speaks to the BBC World Service’s World Update.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Immigration
Many Immigrants Deported for Nonviolent Crimes
Federal authorities have repeatedly said their priority is to find and remove illegal immigrants with violent criminal histories, but the U.S. government’s stepped up enforcement in recent years has led to the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants convicted of nonviolent crimes, according to a new study. Nearly three-quarters of the roughly 897,000 immigrants […]
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U.S. Citizens Caught Up in Immigration Sweeps
Frank Ponce de Leon, a native of Mexico who lives in La Puente, Calif., spent almost three months in immigration custody — all the while insisting he was a U.S. citizen. Photo: Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times Rennison Vern Castillo thought his legal troubles were nearly over at the end of a jail stay […]
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Report says detention centers are failing immigrants
Detained immigrants lack access to phones, legal counsel, and medical care.