Apr 23, 2012
Last June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton outlined criteria for prosecutorial discretion in a memo, which called on ICE officials to consider a range of factors in determining whether an individual should be deported or not. Here’s how the Immigration Policy Center described the memo after...
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Negotiations between the U.S. Department of Justice and Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio have broken down. DOJ, which accused Arpaio of racial discrimination, says the Sheriff is "wasting time and not negotiating in good faith."
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It's not often that you get to hear in English what Spanish language journalists are writing about, but since immigration is a core issue for many Latino voters, you might have guessed – correctly – that it's also an issue highlighted every day in Spanish language media.
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Late last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released new health and safety standards for immigration detainment facilities, which now include things like visitation rights and permission to adhere to dietary restrictions.
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Undocumented immigrants victimized by domestic violence and arrested in the chaos of the moment need not fear subsequent deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Feb 15, 2012
Eleven men arrested in 2007 immigration raid in New Haven have reached an unprecedented settlement with the federal government paying them $350,000 and effectively ending any immigration proceedings against them.
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Jan 24, 2012
Last year the administration added a revolutionary new weapon to its immigration enforcement arsenal -- common sense. In June, John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced that the agency would employ "prosecutorial discretion" in its enforcement of the immigration law.
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Jan 20, 2012
A review ordered by the Obama administration of virtually all 7,900 deportation cases before the immigration court here has identified about 1,300 foreigners — 16 percent — who pose no security risk and will be allowed to remain in the United States, although with no new legal status, immigration...
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Jan 19, 2012
A government lawyer for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who met with an immigration detainee shortly before he died of advanced liver cancer asked a Rhode Island judge on Wednesday to be dismissed from a federal lawsuit brought by the man's widow.
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