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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On Thursday, The New York Times broke the news that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is belatedly taking steps to implement the Obama administration's commitment to "prosecutorial discretion"—that is, concentrating enforcement resources on criminals and serial lawbreakers, not DREAM Act students or other "low priority" immigrants.
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If you are committed to the rule of law, if you expect your government to work in a cohesive and cost-effective manner, and even if you're strongly against illegal immigration — here are 5,100 reasons to be outraged at how immigration laws are being enforced in this country.
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Nov 17, 2011
The Department of Homeland Security will begin a review on Thursday of all deportation cases before the immigration courts and start a nationwide training program for enforcement agents and prosecuting lawyers, with the goal of speeding deportations of convicted criminals and halting those of many illegal immigrants with no...
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Nov 15, 2011
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is in full swing. This week, he strongly condemned Alabama 's law in front of Spanish-language media, saying that it is "not just anti-immigrant, but I believe it doesn't match our essential values as a country."
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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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A new Obama administration policy to avoid deportations of illegal immigrants who are not criminals has been applied very unevenly across the country and has led to vast confusion both in immigrant communities and among agents charged with carrying it out.
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In El Salvador, in the spring of 2004, Fernando Quinteros-Mendoza was dating a woman who lived in a rough neighborhood riddled with gang violence. When Fernando started passing through the gang's territory, its members noticed.
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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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On Tuesday the Obama administration's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it has deported 396,906 immigrants in the past year. This is the highest number of deportations in U.S. history.
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