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Immigration, Drug Crimes, and Deportation

December 23, 2016 by Lynn Olinger

Are you afraid that a drug crime (like sale or possession of a controlled substance) will cause you immigration problems?  Are you in immigration court because of it?  Is the government trying to deport you? You still may have a winning case.  Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appeals courts have repeated… Read More »

Filed Under: Enforcement, immigration, Immigration & Crimes, Immigration Court, Immigration Detention

Immigration Prisons Violate Federal Laws

September 19, 2015 by Lynn Olinger

Immigration prisons routinely violate federal laws such as the Prison Rape Elimination Act.  The Department of Homeland Security, the agency responsible for detaining non-citizens, regularly violates their civil and constitutional rights in immigration prisons, known as “detention centers,” according to a fact-finding study by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent bipartisan independent federal agency.  … Read More »

Filed Under: Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Constitutional Litigation, Department of Homeland Security, Enforcement, ICE, Immigration Detention, Rights, undocumented immigrants

Congress’ Immigration Detention Quota

August 26, 2015 by Lynn Olinger

The massive immigration prison system is because Congress has an immigration detention quota in the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act 2015:  “not less than 34,000 detention beds.” At taxpayer cost, ICE keeps thousands of non-dangerous, non-criminal immigrants in private and local jails.  ​Most at risk are children, women, the disabled and seriously ill, and asylum-seekers who’ve fled… Read More »

Filed Under: Department of Homeland Security, Enforcement, ICE, Immigration Detention

Jailed Immigrant Children Released

August 6, 2015 by Lynn Olinger

The New York Times Opinion Pages | EDITORIAL A Judge’s Rebuke of Immigration Detention By THE EDITORIAL BOARD AUG. 5, 2015 Children do not belong in prison. The mass detention of families offends American values, a lesson this country learned long ago at Manzanar, Tule Lake, Heart Mountain and the other Japanese-American internment camps of… Read More »

Filed Under: Constitutional Litigation, Immigration Detention, Rights, undocumented immigrants

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