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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

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

ICE Subjected Immigrants in Detention to Unnecessary Surgeries, Report Finds

ICE Subjected Immigrants in Detention to Unnecessary Surgeries, Report Finds

The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (OIG) published a report last month finding that nearly one-third of medical procedures performed on immigrants in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody were not properly authorized. The report found that ICE improperly authorized 32% of… Read More

Council and Partners Oppose CBP's Proposal to Dispose of Medical Records of People in CBP Custody

Council and Partners Oppose CBP’s Proposal to Dispose of Medical Records of People in CBP Custody

The Council, along with the ACLU National Prison Project and the Texas Civil Rights Project, led efforts to oppose U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) proposal to destroy records of medical treatment received by migrants in CBP custody. Read More

White House Leans Into Trump-Era Immigration Policy Changes to Get Ukraine Aid

White House Leans Into Trump-Era Immigration Policy Changes to Get Ukraine Aid

The Biden administration signaled on December 12 that it is willing to make disastrous—and permanent—changes to asylum and immigration policy to obtain temporary military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Top White House officials reportedly met with some of the key Senate negotiators, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), Sen. Chris… Read More

Council and AILA File FOIA Requests Seeking Information on FERM Program

Council and AILA File FOIA Requests Seeking Information on FERM Program

These Freedom of Information Act requests seek to uncover information about the FERM program, which places families enrolled on a fast track to deportations if they don’t pass credible fear interviews. Read More

Council, Partners, Renew Advocacy For Meaningful Access to Counsel in Detention

Council, Partners, Renew Advocacy For Meaningful Access to Counsel in Detention

The American Immigration Council and nearly 90 legal service provider organizations sent a letter to ICE Acting Director Patrick Lechleitner highlighting the obstacles to attorney access that exist in immigration detention facilities nationwide and making recommendations for improvements. Read More

New Board of Immigration Appeals Decision Sets Roadblock for Cubans, Others Seeking Green Cards 

New Board of Immigration Appeals Decision Sets Roadblock for Cubans, Others Seeking Green Cards 

A recent Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision bars certain recently arrived noncitizens from becoming lawful permanent residents. In Matter of Cabrera-Fernandez, the BIA held that the petitioner had not been paroled into the United States when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released… Read More

Biden Administration Fights to Keep Private Immigration Jails Open, Despite Promises

Biden Administration Fights to Keep Private Immigration Jails Open, Despite Promises

“There should be no private prisons, period, none, period. And we are working to close all of them.” Those are the words of President Joe Biden in April 2021, when he was called out by immigrant rights activists at a rally celebrating his 100th day in office. This was… 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

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