Ice Archives - Page 4 of 5

March 21, 2013

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgscE9lFZN4&w=560&h=315] Dear Congressman Bachus, Thank you very much for speaking out about the overuse of detention by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in civil proceedings to determine the removability of individuals in the U.S. ...

Benach Collopy Submits Brief in Mandatory Detention Case

February 22, 2013

Earlier this month, Benach Collopy authored a brief on behalf of the American Immigration Lawyers Association in the case of Michael Sylvain v. Attorney General before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. ...

Hey FAU! Drop GEO!

February 20, 2013

Yesterday, after receiving a gift of $6 million, Florida Atlantic University announced that it was renaming its stadium "The Geo Group Stadium," after the for-profit prison company, best known for operating detention facilities on behalf...

Immigration Reform Follies!

February 20, 2013

The past few days have revealed tremendous silliness in the immigration reform debate. It is a true pity given the serious stakes involved for everyone persecuted by the U.S.' brutal immigration laws. Just today, we...

The Whine of the ICE Bureaucrats

February 3, 2013

It has been a tough week for the ICE bureaucrats who have sought to undermine the political leadership of this country to pursue their own restrictivist and nativist agenda. Regular readers of this blog (my...

Does President Obama want to drop the one year asylum rule?

February 1, 2013

There is a single line in the President's immigration proposal that has escaped a lot of attention. As the idiotic "back of the line" concept and the path to citizenship dominate the headlines, the...

Immigration Reform 2013: The President’s Plan

February 1, 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lVIuW8vJ_E&w=560&h=315] What a week it has been. There has been more positive discussion of immigration reform in the last week than in the past decade and while none of it is perfect, it is...

What do Dostoyevsky and Sam from Zambia have in common?

January 18, 2013

On December 23, 1849, Fyodor Dostoevsky, who went on to become Russia's greatest novelist, and several other members of the so-called Petrachevsky Circle were taken out into the courtyard of the Semonyonov Prison in St....

The Provisional Waiver and Removal Proceedings

January 18, 2013

Over the last few weeks we have answered dozens of questions about the provisional waiver. One group of questions keeps appearing- questions about how people in removal proceedings or with a removal order can...

Someone(s) at ICE Needs to Be Fired

January 11, 2013

Those of us on the East Coast woke up this morning to the news that Maria Arreola and her son Heriberto Arreola were arrested in their home Thursday night by Immigration & Customs enforcement in...

The Immigration Industrial Complex

January 9, 2013

The Migration Policy Institute recently released a study documenting that the U.S. government spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement, dwarfing the $14 million spent on other federal law enforcement agencies. The FBI, the DEA and...

New Memo on Detainers- Will it be Followed?

December 28, 2012

A persistent and fair criticism of the current administration is that while it has made grand pronouncements of focusing its enforcement efforts on violent criminals and threats to the national security, programs like 287(g) and...

Aggfel & CIMT Victory in Arlington Immigration Court

October 22, 2012

We prevailed in a long-fought case this week in the Arlington Immigration Court. The Immigration Judge granted our motion to terminate proceedings, agreeing that our client’s conviction in Virginia for attempted sexual battery was neither...

Oh No, he didn’t! Romney endorses anti-immigrant wingnut Steve King.

September 10, 2012

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of67SW_r2VU] On Friday, Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney endorsed Steve King (R-IA) for another term in Congress. King, who once compared selecting immigrants to dog breeding, represents the worst of nativist sentiment and ...

Oh Greta!

August 28, 2012

Today, FOBR (Friend of Benach Collopy) Erich Straub wrote a strong response to the nonsense spouted by Fox News talking head Greta Van Susteren, who waded into water over her head when she penned an...