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New detention facility opens

Customs and Border Protection recently opened a new detention center in South Texas equipped to hold as many as 1,000 migrants. The facility, located outside the small town of Donna and adjacent to a bridge connecting Texas to the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, consists of a large canvas structure resembling a tent. CBP officials explained that they need additional confinement capacity to hold migrants, especially those coming from Central America. Officials claim that migrants will be detained at the Donna site for no more than 72-hours. News reports peg the facility’s cost at approximately [...]

Posted by César on January 10, 2017 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: border militarization, imprisonment

Narratives of criminalization and resistance

“Immigrants are not criminals.” This was a frequent refrain of the mass mobilizations of 2006 that put a stop to the harshest immigration legislation to win widespread congressional support in a decade. Many immigrants’ rights advocates continued using a form of this narrative frame in the years that followed. So too did Obama Administration officials. Under his watch, ICE repeatedly touted its prioritization of “criminal aliens.” Indeed, President Obama famously described his Administration’s immigration law enforcement focus as “felons, not families.” Whatever the rhetoric’s value, the [...]

Posted by César on December 13, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: border militarization, citizenship, Congress, Criminal Alien Program, illegal entry, illegal reentry, imprisonment, local immigration policing

Reflections on a Donald Trump Presidency

By Linus Chan Bearing witness to sorrow, pain and injustice has always been part of the package deal of being an immigration attorney. Immigration law is diverse, rich and an example of how to define what our country's values are.  Deciding who can be our neighbors, co-workers, teachers, and family often requires us to articulate our vision of the United States and how it is to remain a shining light on a hill. I represent non-citizens detained by immigration officials and who face removal from our country and exile from their homes and family.  Many of my clients are those people [...]

Posted by César on November 16, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: border militarization, commentaries, deferred action, guest blogger, imprisonment

Making the invisible visible inside Canada’s immigration detention regime

By Carrie Dawson In December 2013, Lucia Vega Jimenez, an undocumented Mexican national who worked as a chambermaid in Vancouver, was caught paying less than the full fare for a train ticket. The transit police turned her over to Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), the government body responsible for border security, who took her into custody. The day before she was scheduled to be deported, Jimenez hanged herself from a shower rod in the immigration detention center. She died one week later. In a newspaper interview, Yasmin Trejo, a friend of Jimenez’s, said, “Lucia ended up being [...]

Posted by César on November 14, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: border militarization, Canada, guest blogger, imprisonment

Private prisons: boom or bust?

What does the future hold for the private prison industry? There is no doubt that this a pivotal moment for this critical enterprise in the nation’s policing regime. The Justice Department’s August 2016 announcement that it will reduce its reliance on private prison operators has spurred a bevy of discussions about the utility and morality of profiting off human bondage. None is more prominent than Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson’s statement that DHS has launched an internal review of its private prison operations to see whether it ought to follow the Justice Department’s lead. Make [...]

Posted by César on November 3, 2016 on 4:00 am 1 Comment
Filed Under: border militarization, CCA/CoreCivic, imprisonment

Bipartisan Immigration Imprisonment

Top Obama administration officials have made much of their concern about the country’s outsized prison population. In 2015, President Obama famously visited a federal penitentiary, the first sitting president to ever do so. In 2013, then-Attorney General Eric Holder championed sentencing reforms targeting low-level drug offenders. And Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates recently announced that the Justice Department would substantially reduce its reliance on private prison operators. But at the same time, the Obama administration has arrested and imprisoned a historically unprecedented [...]

Posted by César on November 1, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: border militarization, commentaries, FOIA, illegal entry, illegal reentry, imprisonment, statistics

Is the border truly a shoot-at-will location?

The Fourth Amendment offers a powerful bulwark against the state’s power to deprive people of their liberty. Only with the intercession of a neutral arbiter, the text indicates, can the government exercise its immense coercive powers. Anyone who has followed the evolution of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence over the last three decades knows that this promise is far from the reality. Along the border, however, even the watered-down state in which the Fourth Amendment hobbles along might be too much. Is it possible that a Border Patrol officer might have wielded his weapon too loosely, but the [...]

Posted by César on October 18, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: 4th Amendment, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, border militarization, U.S. District Courts, U.S. Supreme Court

Retelling migration in the era of global capitalism

The pattern is astonishingly clear. Every year, the U.S. Marshals Service books into its custody almost 100,000 people suspected of entering the United States without the federal government’s permission. Every year, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency confines over 400,000 people waiting to learn whether they will be allowed to remain in the United States. Every year, private prison corporations and local governments reap hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue for locking up people suspected to have violated some tenant of migration control. Every year, thousands of people die [...]

Posted by César on October 11, 2016 on 4:00 am 1 Comment
Filed Under: border militarization, commentaries

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