Immigration at the Border

Immigration at the Border

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

Differences in State Sunshine Laws Can Threaten Transparency Around Immigration Detention and Enforcement

Differences in State Sunshine Laws Can Threaten Transparency Around Immigration Detention and Enforcement

By Tsion Gurmu, Legal Director at the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and Raul Pinto, Deputy Legal Director of Transparency The main way in which the public can access information about what the federal government is doing is through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). However, laws that allow the… Read More

Despite Progress, the Tragedy of Family Separation Can Never Be Undone

Despite Progress, the Tragedy of Family Separation Can Never Be Undone

Six years ago, a man came to the U.S./Mexico border with his five-year-old daughter, looking for safety in the United States.   At home, a rival political faction had been making death threats against him and his family. That compelled him to take his daughter to the United… 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

The State of Texas Isn’t Just Creating Chaos and Cruelty at the Border—It’s Trying to Break the Things That Work

The State of Texas Isn’t Just Creating Chaos and Cruelty at the Border—It’s Trying to Break the Things That Work

For decades, the Catholic nonprofit Annunciation House has worked to support migrants in El Paso, Texas. It’s provided shelter, food and services to countless people who have just arrived in the United States—many of whom have been released directly from government custody after being apprehended and processed by… Read More

Improving ICE Compliance with Congressional Reporting Requirements

Improving ICE Compliance with Congressional Reporting Requirements

Immigration policy experts and legal service providers developed the following recommendations with the goal of improving public access to information that Congress has required U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to disclose. Read More

House Republicans Vote to Impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary

House Republicans Vote to Impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary

On Tuesday, February 13, 2024, the House Republican majority chose to continue efforts to impeach the Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, holding another vote which passed, 214 to 213. Read More

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