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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...