A squabble is brewing between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the union that represents its rank and file agents. At issue is the training that needs to be conducted so ICE can implement the Obama Administration's new approach to deportations of illegal immigrants.
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News reports surfaced last week that a fourteen-year-old girl from Dallas, an American citizen who did not speak a word of Spanish, was deported to Colombia. The reports say Jakadrien Turner gave an assumed name -- we don't know why -- that matched a name in a Secure Communities...
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By 2013, states will have little choice but to comply with the Obama administration's controversial Secure Communities immigration program, which collects and shares information about a person's immigration status when they're fingerprinted in a local jail, according to a newly released memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement .
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Immigration officials released an undocumented Alabama woman from custody on Thursday, about four hours after a Democratic congressman told Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano about her case.
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Occupy Birmingham is moving north to Gadsden for a few hours Saturday to protest the state's new immigration law and Immigration and Customs Enforcement policies. Erick Forsyth, a volunteer with Occupy Birmingham, said Gadsden was chosen for the demonstration because of ICE's connection with the Etowah County Detention Center.
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Over the weekend, The New York Times' Julia Preston reported on the Obama administration's new deportation policy. And, her article echoed concerns we've been hearing: A new Obama administration policy to avoid deportations of illegal immigrants who are not criminals has been applied very unevenly across the country.
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Nov 3, 2011
Very powerful op-ed in The Hill, written by Professor Randall McGuire about the Border Patrol titled, Border Patrol abuses of human rights must be stopped. McGuire cuts right to the problem with Border Patrol. It's a "rogue agency."
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Dismissing vocal objections from Democrats, a House subcommittee acted Wednesday to authorize issuing a subpoena to the Department of Homeland Security for a huge trove of information about possible illegal aliens DHS declined to pick up after local law enforcement reported taking them into custody.
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We know that deportations can have a destructive impact on immigrant families. A new report from the Applied Research Center, Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System, found that over 5,000 children of deported parents are now stuck in the foster care system....
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Yesterday, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez wrote to Alabama school districts reminding them, "that denying innocent children the benefit of schooling provided to other students within the district was unconstitutional."
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