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More Charges of Misconduct in Immigration Detention Centers

By | 10.22.10 | 11:12 am

The Nation adds a new perspective to my story from earlier this week about Pedro Guzman, a man fighting against deportation charges in Stewart Detention Center near Atlanta. Jacqueline Stevens visited the Stewart Detention Center and tells of numerous abuses of justice in the immigration courts More…

Asylum Denials at a 25-Year Low, But Still Distributed Unevenly

By | 09.02.10 | 3:14 pm

Immigration judges are denying fewer requests for asylum than at any other time in the past 25 years, according to a report out today from Syracuse’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. During the first nine months of fiscal year 2010, judges turned down about half of the requests for More…

Government Expects to Deport ‘Tens of Thousands’ More Immigrants Next Year

By | 05.22.09 | 2:21 pm

Just to reinforce the point that the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice are expecting the expansion of the “Secure Communities” initiative that I wrote about here to create an avalanche of new deportation cases in an effort “to remove all criminal aliens held in More…