Interior Enforcement

Border Patrol and Ohio Law Enforcement Engage in Racial Profiling in Northern Ohio, New Report Finds

Border Patrol and Ohio Law Enforcement Engage in Racial Profiling in Northern Ohio, New Report Finds

By Gwen Short, Staff Attorney at Advocates for Basic Legal Equality and Raul Pinto, Deputy Director of Transparency at the American Immigration Council ABLE and the American Immigration Council published a report on March 19 analyzing data suggesting that the collusion between U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Sandusky… Read More

Texas SB4 Law Sets Damaging Precedent for Similar Bills that Endanger Immigrant Families

Texas SB4 Law Sets Damaging Precedent for Similar Bills that Endanger Immigrant Families

SB4 is cruel, inhumane, and clearly unconstitutional. Read More

Ohio, We Have A Problem

Ohio, We Have A Problem

  Ohio, We Have A Problem BORDER PATROL AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT’S PATTERNS AND TACTICS OF ABUSE IN OHIO’S IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENTTuesday, March 19, 2024 Contents Executive Summary Background Data Sources Demographic Findings Findings Regarding… Read More

Records Shed Light on Border Patrol’s Racial Profiling of Immigrants in Ohio

Records Shed Light on Border Patrol’s Racial Profiling of Immigrants in Ohio

A new report sheds light on Border Patrol's use of racial profiling when targeting Latinos in northern Ohio. Read More

Showdown Between Texas Authorities and the Federal Government Headed to the Supreme Court

Showdown Between Texas Authorities and the Federal Government Headed to the Supreme Court

By Kate Melloy Goettel and Juan Avilez  A Texas law that allows local law enforcement to arrest migrants, state court judges to issue removal orders, and state officials to remove migrants to Mexico, is on its… Read More

ICE Will Be Required to Wear Body Cameras in a Win for Transparency—But the Implementation Will Be Key

ICE Will Be Required to Wear Body Cameras in a Win for Transparency—But the Implementation Will Be Key

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a policy on January 12 calling for ICE personnel to wear body cameras in most situations when carrying out enforcement duties. According to ICE Deputy Director Patrick J. Lechleitner, the move is designed to build public trust by enhancing “accountability, effectiveness, and… Read More

Understanding the Importance of Humanitarian Parole in the U.S. Immigration System

Understanding the Importance of Humanitarian Parole in the U.S. Immigration System

Parole is an essential component of U.S. immigration law. It can be an important tool to manage the processing of migrants at U.S. borders; a powerful response to humanitarian crisis; and a way to allow people in the United States to work legally and become self-sufficient. As Congress considers… Read More

Common Tools of Statutory Construction for Criminal Removal Grounds

Common Tools of Statutory Construction for Criminal Removal Grounds

This practice advisory describes some of the common tools of statutory construction to assist practitioners in advocating for narrow definitions of generic criminal removal grounds before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and the U.S. courts of appeals. To determine whether a criminal conviction renders a noncitizen removable under federal… Read More

The Council and AILA submit comment on DHS rule allowing electronic service of cash bond notices

The Council and AILA submit comment on DHS rule allowing electronic service of cash bond notices

The Council and the American Immigration Lawyers Association comment on DHS's Interim Final Rule on its plan to electronically serve bond-related notifications to obligors to release immigration detainees. Read More

Practice Alert: Overview of the Supreme Court's Decision in Pugin v. Garland

Practice Alert: Overview of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Pugin v. Garland

This practice advisory looks into the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court issued in Pugin v. Garland, 143 S. Ct. 1833 (2023). This immigration decision addressed the generic definition of the obstruction of justice aggravated felony ground at 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(S). Read More

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